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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
1: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[188...
3: ...ged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; ...
5: ...) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation o...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial differential equation]]s (t...
9: ...to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one ...
4: ...a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...on sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ..."royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ...ivorced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up. - Trillium (2550 bytes)
16: ...r. The [[Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|AGP II]] considers now Triliaceae as a synonym of the family [[Mel...
28: Some trilliums have a flower which is bent downward, below the leaves. - Kidney (12846 bytes)
1: ...:29-08-07 08a.jpg|thumb|250px|Kidney Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
7: ...] part of the [[abdomen]]. There is one on each side of the [[spine (anatomy)|spine]] just below the [...
9: ...ey usually lies slightly lower than the left in order to accommodate the [[liver]].
11: ...twelfth [[rib]]s, and each whole kidney is surrounded by two layers of fat (the perirenal fat and the ...
14: ===Structural details=== - Pharynx (931 bytes)
1: ...ther mammal pharynges, enabling us to produce a wider variety of sounds, but also putting us in danger...
3: The human pharynx is divided into three sections: the ''nasopharynx'', lying ...
5: See also [[larynx]], [[adenoid]], [[tonsil]], [[Eustachian tube]], [[uvula]]... - Mandible (13717 bytes)
6: ... like a horseshoe and has two surfaces and two borders.
9: ...i Inferioris]] (Quadratus labii inferioris) and [[depressor anguli oris]] (Triangularis); the [[platys...
11: '''Figure 1 :''' Mandible. Outer surface. Side view.
12: ... the [[sublingual gland]] rests, and below the hinder part, an oval fossa for the [[submaxillary gland...
14: == Borders == - Ulna (12105 bytes)
8: The ulna is broader ''proximally'', and narrower ''distally''.
16: ...d, its lower extremity being very small, and excluded from the wrist-joint by the interposition of an ...
24: ...r carpi ulnaris]] arises; while to the lateral border the Anconæus is attached.
29: (''''processus coronoideus'''')
30: ...m the lower part of the coronoid process by a rounded bundle of muscular fibers. - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: ...right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
7: ...y tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
9: ...f wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period ar...
11: ...f_China#Ancient_history|Chinese]]. Woodworking is depicted in many ancient Egyptian drawings, and some...
13: ...after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building vario... - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
1: ...amore]]s but larger. If the oboe were to be regarded as a soprano in C, then the "cor anglais" would ...
3: ...e oboe in that the reed is attached to a slightly bent metal tube called the [[bocal]] and the bell has ...
7: ...manding to play. The amount of breath support needed is greater than for the oboe, as is the difficul...
9: ...which is generally done by the performer, is considered something of an art. While performing, cor an...
15: ...tainty that this is the case. This probable misunderstanding gave birth to another one, the naming of... - Crumhorn (1946 bytes)
4: ...English]] ''crump'' meaning curve, surviving in modern [[English language|English]] in 'crumpled' and ...
6: ... feature of the crumhorn is its shape; the end is bent upwards in a curve, so that the instrument resemb...
8: ...ded downwards by means of additional holes and sliders or by dropping the pressure. Because of the lim... - Alphorn (1746 bytes)
1: ...a [[wind instrument]], consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a cup-shaped [[mout...
3: ...outhpiece carved out of a block of hard wood is added and the instrument is complete.
5: ...e bore in relation to the length. An alpenhorn made at Rigi-Kulm, Schwytz, and now in the [[Victoria ...
8: ...f the alpenhorn from French Switzerland. The song describes the time of bringing the cows to the high ...
10: ... [[Michael Praetorius]] mentions the alpenhorn under the name of holzerni trummet in ''Syntagma Music... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ... developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and has been known as t...
6: ...sic)|harmonic series]], facilitated by its small, deep [[mouthpiece]], giving it its characteristic "m...
12: ... needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was ...
14: ...ype of horn, called the [[natural horn]] in the modern literature.
16: ...rmonic series, and there were then three valves added to it. Using these three valves, the player cou... - Serpent (instrument) (2056 bytes)
1: ...ical instrument classification]] places it alongside [[trumpet]]s.
3: ...les were keyless, like on a [[recorder]]. Later models, however, add keys, as on a [[clarinet]], altho...
5: ...hardly been used at all, although many original models still survive, and it is sometimes played as pa...
7: ...f a tube folded back on itself (rather like the modern [[bassoon]]), rather than the curvy shape of th... - Trombone (15819 bytes)
1: ...lide trombone, with slide extended.''<br>''This model has a B♭ to F attachment.'']]
6: The word ''trombone'' derives from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''tromba''...
9: ...bore) after the lead pipe and through the hand slide. The bore expands through the neck pipe and backb...
12: ...history). The sackbut was slightly smaller than modern trombones, and had a bell that was more conical...
14: ... band]]s, [[Military band]]s, [[brass band]]s, [[:de:Posaunenchor|brass choir]]s, etc. It can be part ... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
6: ...l, before the flare for the bell begins. (Careful design of these tapers is critical to the [[tuning|i...
8: ... sound and the ease with which it can be played. Deeper cupped mothpieces are best suited for expansi...
11: ...]] or ''cornetto'' (not to be confused with the modern cornet), and the [[Scandinavia]]n [[lur]].
16: ...make well-known the term ''[[double high C]]'' to describe the next octave above high C. Trumpeters w...
19: ...urice Andre]], [[Wynton Marsalis]] and [[Hakan Hardenberger]]. - Accordion (10069 bytes)
9: [[Image:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
10: ...e, and as air is drawn through the hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, producing sound.
12: Modern free-reed instruments have several aspects in c...
22: ...ons, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrument.
25: ... with Jew's Harps. The reeds were mounted on a wooden soundboard, similar to concertinas. - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds a...
16: ...) also include a spring-loaded button-actuated slide that, when
17: depressed, further redirects air blown or drawn thr...
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
26: ...omatic harmonicas also have a button-activated slide. - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much long...
10: ...span of about three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
27: ...ociety]] (see [[Nile#History|Nile: History]]). Evidence of [[pastoralism]] and cultivation of [[cereal...
29: ...there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of the remains of ...
31: ...stract&list_uids=12495079]; reveals also that ''modern day'' Egyptians "''reflect a mixture of [[Europ... - Old Kingdom (5401 bytes)
2: ...wed by a period of disunity and relative cultural decline referred to by Egyptologists as the [[First ...
8: ...0]]–[[2611 BC]]) of the Third Dynasty who ordered the construction of the first pyramid (the [[P...
10: It was in this era that formerly independent ancient Egyptian states became known as [[Nome ...
12: ==Golden Age: the Fourth Dynasty==
14: ...s pyramid in [[Meidum]] (a failure), the famous [[Bent Pyramid]] in [[Dahshur]] (another failure) and th...
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