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- Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ... such as her masterpiece on the Stalinist terror "Requiem", to substantial verse pieces including "Poem Wit...
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been ...
9: ...ith several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...ov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively silence...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more pro... - Shark (14021 bytes)
11: ...olor = pink | plural_taxon = [[Orders (biology)|Orders]]}}
17: ...nd the [[eye]] and called a [[spiracle]]), dermal denticles covering the [[body]] to protect from [[pa...
20: ...r teeth are not attached to the [[jaw]], but embedded in their flesh. The lower teeth are primarily us...
22: ...everything from the hand-sized [[pygmy shark]], a deep sea species, to the [[whale shark]], the larges...
24: ...lls as they rest. Because sharks have no swim bladders, they sink when they stop swimming; a resting s... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... for designing many inventions that anticipated modern technology but were rarely constructed in his l...
7: .... It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]]...
9: As he was born before modern naming conventions developed in [[Europe]], his full name was "Leonardo...
11: ...s father soon showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourt...
12: ...ntellect that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Va... - Timpani (31735 bytes)
3: ...ani mallet''. Unlike most drums, they produce a [[definite pitch]] when struck. Timpani evolved from [...
5: ...]] word ''tympanum'', from which the Italian word descends. A [[musician]] who plays the timpani is kn...
9: ...|Ninth Symphony]] highlights timpani as an independent voice.
18: ... typically made of copper or, in less expensive models, [[fiberglass]]. The drumhead is connected to a...
20: ...machined surface or rough surface with many small dents hammered into it. - Sandbar Shark (2764 bytes)
14: ...charhinidae]] family of [[shark]]s, also called [[requiem shark]]s.
16: ...ish gray to a bronze, with a white or pale underside. Sandbar sharks swim alone or gather in sex-segre...
18: ... are found in tropical to temperate waters worldwide; in the western [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] they ...
20: ...great white sharks. The Sandbar sharks, and other requiem sharks, prey on finfish rays, bottom dwelling ani...
22: ...e embryos are supported in placental yolk sac inside the mother. The female reproduces every two years... - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ...][[1756]] – [[December 5]][[1791]]) is considered one of the greatest [[composer]]s of [[Europea...
7: ...but at the time was the capital of a small independent [[Archbishopric]] within the [[Holy Roman Empir...
11: ... both the [[piano]] and [[violin]]. Musically, he developed very rapidly and began to compose his own ...
13: ...ifficult passages he had never seen before. His older sister, [[Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart|Maria Anna...
15: ...ienna again in late 1767 and remained there until December 1768. - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...ombinations and classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatur...
10: ... St. Petersburg and dominated by his father and elder brother, Stravinsky's early childhood was a mix ...
12: ...d<nowiki>]</nowiki> them all to hell". (He succeeded: the 1913 première of ''Le sacre du print...
14: ...learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifested itself in several of his Paris col...
17: ...rtner until his death, was his second wife [[Vera de Bosset]].
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