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- Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...uly powerful woodwind instruments with very high tessituras. Pitched in F, a perfect fourth above the ...
3: ...rt in the last movement. In [[1915]], Strauss requested that a piccolo heckelphone in Eb be built for ...
7: ...easing altogether in [[1955]] due to lack of interest. Apparently, only one was ever sold.
9: ...strument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the h...
11: ...orary composers, providing an alternative to the less-than-satisfactory musette oboe in F or Eb. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...re". This is similar to the functioning of the ancestors of the recorder, early folk [[whistle]]s.
3: ...ecorders in f' connected together by leather flanges: one instrument was voiced to play softly, the ot...
5: ...imilarly easy -- like other instruments, it requires talent and study to play it at an advanced level.
7: ...groups such as [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Jimi Hendrix]]. Prominent jazz musician [[Ke...
9: ...in Fl?in'' ("really small flute") in C, with a lowest note of c". An experimental 'piccolino' has also... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...south by [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] ...
4: |+<big>'''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'''</big>
7: ...ermany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germany: Coat of Arms]]
23: |'''Largest City''' || [[Berlin]]
27: |'''[[President of Germany|President]]''' || [[Horst K?r]] - Boat (6417 bytes)
3: ...boat consists of one or more [[buoyancy]] structures called [[hull (ship)|hull]]s and some system of p...
7: |[[Image:Boats.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Indonesian transport on Seram, Maluku]]
68: == Unusual uses of the word "Boat" ==
69: ...s who make up their best team, rather than their best piece of equipment.
71: * A ship can be informally known as a boat, especially by its [[crew]]. This use is uncommon in ... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...c method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [[phenomenon|phenomena]] and their pre-cursors b...
4: ...considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many plac...
6: ...ledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an exter...
8: ==Theories and sociology of the history of science==
9: {{seemain|Theories and sociology of the history of science}} - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
3: |states=Formerly spoken in Mesopotamia, currently extinct
4: |region=Southern Mesopotamia
8: |nation=Ancient [[Mesopotamia]]
12: ...ic language|Aramaic]], which are [[Semitic languages]], and [[Elamite]], which is an [[Elamo-Dravidian...
15: ...ury BC]] document listing gifts to the high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her election]] - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...at, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
5: ...ovember 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
9: The Napoleonic Wars brought some great changes upon the face of Europe:
11: ...nant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
12: ... nation in the world. The [[Royal Navy]] held unquestioned naval superiority throughout the world, and... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...eople who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and established a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the m...
3: ...y disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 BC.
5: ...the reconstructed [[Hittite language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", ...
7: ... the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still ...
9: The Hittites were also famous for their skill in building and ... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...urch to return to the teachings of the [[Bible]] resulted in the formation of new traditions within Ch...
14: ...the [[German language]] and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]]s...
17: ...px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at [[Eise...
21: ...degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's wishes, Martin enrolled in the law school of that univer...
26: ...it seemed, the more aware he became of his sinfulness. - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
3: ...nd fortified over the years, but was opened to unrestricted transit on [[November 9]], [[1989]] and su...
7: ...eir control. The Soviet sector was by far the largest and contained the traditional city center, [[Ber...
9: ... led to the [[Berlin Airlift]] by the Western Allies. The Soviets lifted the ineffective blockade the ...
11: ... capital of West Germany in preference to either West Berlin or [[Frankfurt]].
13: ...re prices for foodstuffs were much lower than in West Berlin. This drain of labour and economic output... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...e late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ... often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoni...
7: ...ons. The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continues this page.
10: ...rmanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Germani...
12: ...s Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Rom... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
5: *[[1782]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] engineer [[James Watt]] invents first [[steam engine]] able to tur...
6: ... rails on coal railway at [[Loughborough]], [[Leicestershire]].
9: ...h Railway, better known as the [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway]]
13: ...ailway passenger service is started. The line proves the viabillity of rail transport, and large scale...
15: ...near [[Wurzen]], in [[1839]] the line reaches [[Dresden]]. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ...Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
12: ...making. At the age of ten, he was sent to the [[Jesuit]] Collège Louis-le-Grand, and remained ...
14: ...[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father sto...
16: ...spy named Beauregard into a real or burlesque confession he was sent to the [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]]...
18: ...o 'v' and 'j' to 'i' according to the ordinary rules of the game. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...d, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, noted for thei...
7: ...ns, as well as numerous other more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Ca...
11: ... In an era when sons were expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began ...
13: ...oung Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elde...
19: - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
3: ...th Germany, and for four years, 1792–1796, resided in [[England]].
5: ...e works he published during this period were manifestly influenced by that philosopher. Yet Baader is ...
7: ...sophy and speculative theology. Some of the lectures delivered there he published under the title ''Sp...
9: ...'con-scientia'' — a knowing with, consciousness of, or participation in God.
11: ...') of God — his shadow, desire, want, or ''desiderium sui'', as it is called by mystical writers... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: ...nd [[mathematician]]. The [[European Space Agency|ESA]]'s [[Hipparcos|Hipparcos Space Astrometry Missi...
4: ...opular astronomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we kno...
8: ...th century]]) in their commentaries on the ''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"...
14: ... it is not known if and when he visited these places.
16: ...contemporary portraits. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia tha... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...e late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ... often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoni...
7: ...ons. The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continues this page.
10: ...rmanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Germani...
12: ...s Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Rom... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: ...nd [[mathematician]]. The [[European Space Agency|ESA]]'s [[Hipparcos|Hipparcos Space Astrometry Missi...
3: ...opular astronomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we kno...
7: ...th century]]) in their commentaries on the ''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"...
13: ... it is not known if and when he visited these places.
15: ...contemporary portraits. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia tha... - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: The '''history of psychology''' consists of a prescientific and a scientific epoch. The field of [[p...
4: ==Prescientific psychology==
5: ...ing demons and other superstition, it also evidences ''a long tradition of empirical practice and obse...
7: ...]], dealt with the nature of the mind, its processes, and its contents, though usually in a theoretica...
11: ...ma Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the Souls of Brutes").
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