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- Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] ...
5: ...aking close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Serge Diaghilev]], and [[Jean Coctea...
7: ...' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[...
11: ...to shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...e town, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
9: ...|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
15: ...ections of Cubist art. She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her po...
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...artre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...rre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], and she had affairs with all of them. The mos...
10: ..., Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
12: Despite her achievements, she lived in the shadows of...
14: ...was, however, best known for her candid female nudes. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
4: ... born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She w...
6: ...to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. S...
8: ...the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...ctly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...o one composer occured during the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...erhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
2: ...tes that humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language....
4: ...rocess of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...ros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
12: == Painting techniques == - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|...
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]]) - Printmaking (6788 bytes)
1: ...expert printmaker, and make use of a [[printing press]], a [[baren]], a [[brayer]], and/or a [[squeege...
3: ...d, metal plates, flat stones, or a porous fabric mesh stretched in a frame. Small prints can even be m...
5: == Techniques ==
6: ...ocut]], [[aquatint]] and [[batik]]. These techniques can also be combined.
10: ...pe of [[relief print]], is thought to be the earliest printmaking technique, dating back to [[9th cent... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied ...
5: ...est primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity and ...
7: ...ield of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]] ''circa'' [[1910]].]]
11: ... California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [...
13: ...]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
5: ...ball)|Western League]]. Moved to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], then again to Chicago in 1900 when that lea...
9: :''Logo design:'' the letters "SOX", interlocked in various w...
10: :''Wild Card titles won'' (0): ''none''
11: :''Division titles won'' (4): [[1983 in sports|1983]], [[1993 in spo...
12: ...7]], [[1919 World Series|1919]], [[1959 World Series|1959]] - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
13: ... The [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany|racial policies]] that Hitler directed culminated in the systemat...
15: ...'s most powerful nations. Nevertheless, the [[Allies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days ...
20: ...f]]'', his [[autobiography]], Adolf Hitler describes his father as an "irascible tyrant"; however, the...
22: ...il Schicklgruber" were airdropped over German cities. He was legally born a Hitler, however, and was i...
24: ...ish the probability Hitler had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Historians such as [[Werner Maser]] and [[Ia... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ... in his life. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve children.
9: ...his own bark. At age 23 Drake took his first voyages to the [[New World]] under the sails of the Hawki...
11: == First adventures ==
12: ...nst Spanish forces, which claimed many English lives but earned Drake the favour of [[Elizabeth I of E...
13: ...y acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake's era. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - Ballet (9155 bytes)
1: ...nowdance.jpg|250px|thumb|The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker]]
3: ...s. Many [[Glossary_of_ballet_terms|Ballet techniques]] bear a striking similarity to [[fencing]] posit...
5: ...technical manual on ballet dancing that helped to establish [[Italy]] as a major centre of ballet deve...
9: [[Image:Representation of a Ballet before Henri III and his Cour...
11: ... out into op鲡-ballet, and a school to train professional dancers was attached to the Acad魩e Royale... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
2: ...or]] and [[architect]] of the Spanish school, is best known.
4: ... led a successful career as a painter of altarpieces and portraits. Many of El Greco's works are on di...
7: ...ght and colour inspired artists such as [[Picasso|Pablo Picasso]] and [[Jackson Pollock]] in their effort...
9: ...d and quickened by God's Grace." —David Davies
13: *[http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/greco_el/ El Greco at Web Gallery ... - List of Major League Baseball players (29066 bytes)
1: ...s not yet exist, see: [[Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports]].
45: *[[Jesús Alou]]
53: *[[Red Ames]]
90: *[[Harold Baines]]
95: *[[James Baldwin (baseball player)|James Baldwin]] - 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: - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...des]] mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to the east, [[Bolivia...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
19: leader_names = [[Ricardo Lagos]] |
20: largest_city = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] | - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
1: ...ean]] climate and geography have played strong roles in shaping its culture.
4: ...es — even those that least identify themselves as Spanish — have contributed greatly to ma...
6: ...talan nationalists favor [[state]]hood for their respective regions. Basque aspirations to statehood c...
8: ...re are also several communities where, despite widespread acceptance of the community's inclusion in S...
10: ...trong regional identities: [[Cantabria]], [[Asturies]], [[Rioja]], [[Valencia]], [[Aragon]] and [[Extr... - List of major league baseball players (29066 bytes)
1: ...s not yet exist, see: [[Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports]].
45: *[[Jesús Alou]]
53: *[[Red Ames]]
90: *[[Harold Baines]]
95: *[[James Baldwin (baseball player)|James Baldwin]]
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