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- Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Banjo (6143 bytes)
4: ... [[Africa|African]] "akonting". Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of "bandore...
6: The modern banjo comes in a variety of different forms, in...
8: ...-string banjo, the fifth peg is normally on the side of the neck, although some English versions mount...
10: ... banjos are the '''resonator banjo''' which has a detachable chamber, or resonator, on the back of the...
12: ... with the modern open-backed drum-like pot, and added a base string to give the instrument more range.... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ilar [[oud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘u...
3: ==Description of the instrument==
7: ...h the ''peg box''. (There are no gears or other aides for tuning the instrument, which fact — al...
9: ...t (or extremely rarely of metal), and are still made of gut or a synthetic substitute, with metal wind...
13: ...of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate section of its own, [[Lute#T... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted...
3: ...fers solely to the military campaign; for the broader perspective, including the origins and aftermath...
10: ..." army). Each colony instead provided for its own defenses through the use of local [[militia]]. Milit...
12: ...st number of men that Washington personally commanded in the field at any one time was fewer than 17,0...
15: ...g the war years. However, according to reliable modern estimates, total British strength in the coloni... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
2: ...tic guitar features [[steel]] strings and more guide dots on the [[fretboard]].]]
10: ...d in a wide variety of musical styles. They are made and repaired by [[luthiers]].
12: Guitars are widely known as the primary instrument in [[rock music...
16: ... were invented in Central Asia, Iran. Earliest evidence of instruments very similar to the Westernized...
17: ...tp://www.iranian.com/Music/2002/November/Guitar/index.html See related article]). - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
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46: Wounded in action: 4,505 <br>
48: Other deaths: 17,000<br>
49: Civilian deaths: 500?<br> - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
3: ...is shown using the [[diatonic scale]], with [[accidental]]s to allow notes on the [[chromatic scale]],...
8: There is some evidence that a kind of musical notation was practiced ...
10: .... An example of a complete composition — indeed the ''only'' surviving complete composition usi...
12: ...but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered.
16: == Standard notation described == - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ... the visual spectacle on the stage, which is considered an important part of the performance. Finally,...
9: ...arely reaching vocal maturity until the third decade, and sometimes not until middle age. Male singer...
11: Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: [[recitative]], the dialogue and plo...
13: ...s such film scores can in some sense even be considered both the heirs and the competitors of [[grand ...
20: ...ical [[Greek tragedy|Greek drama]], part of the wider revival of antiquity characteristic of the [[Ren...
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