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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
10: ...br>("''Wisdom is the prop of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se -->
25: ... attempts to bestow guilt on Christina for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may h...
31: National policy was directed during the first half of Christina's reign by her guardian, reg...
34: ...me publicly so as to be at the center of a scientific and artistic [[renaissance]].
36: ...er all, anything but an act of self-renunciation. First of all she could not have ignored the increasi... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
9: ...[Torgau]] in [[Saxony]] and at [[Konisberg]] in [[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...akness in the romantic orchestra: namely, an insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instrument...
3: ...ance of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s second [[Brandenburg Concerto]], where it played the high trumpet part...
7: ...hone never caught on, due to a number of factors. Firstly, its outlandish name makes immediate recogni...
9: ...serial numbers, but not fitted with keys. Four or five are known to be on display at the Heckel museum... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ... front and back of the instrument. Because of the fixed position of the windway with respect to the la...
3: ...three concertos for the "flautino", an instrument first thought to be the [[piccolo]]. It is now gener...
9: ...trabass in F) but are more rare. They are also difficult to handle: the contrabass in F is about 2 met...
11: ...pper half of the second octave requires irregular fingerings. Two versions exist, one using the [[majo...
13: ...d covering one or more of the ones below it. Fork fingerings have a different tonal character from the... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...g wrapped into a coiled form. The instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''c...
10: ...mile of a Miniature in the Manuscript of Phoebus (Fifteenth Century).]]
14: ...lements of a harmonic series. This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not...
28: ...er, such as in [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach's]] [[Brandenburg Concerti]]. Double horns in B-flat/High F (or Hi...
32: ...flat double horn with an F-alto descant, adding a fifth valve to an already complex instrument. While... - Germany (46412 bytes)
19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when...
66: ...n strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to ...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese hi...
8: ... home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection...
24: ...inseparably connected with the subjects of [[fortification]] (see also [[siegecraft]]) and [[domestic ... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
7: ... fellow-Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of...
11: ...''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French rom...
13: ...arried, to Bice del Bostichi. His children by his first marriage had all died and he was gladdened by...
17: ...s largely complete by 1352 and it was Boccaccio's final effort in literature and one of his last works...
19: ...ited that city-state twice and was also sent to [[Brandenburg]], [[Milan]] and [[Avignon]]. He also pushed for ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...dern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other as...
10: ...versities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become ...
12: The first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] togeth...
16: ...Ancients on the movement of the Earth, having the first intuition of his theory. His collection of obs...
24: ...royal troops besiged by the troops of [[Albert of Brandenburg]]. - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...l film cameras, and include features not found in film cameras such as the ability to shoot [[video]] ...
26: ... Digital cameras generally include a [[USB]] or [[Firewire]] port, and a [[memory card]] slot.
30: ==Comparison with film cameras==
33: ...dvantages of digital photography over traditional film include:
34: ...veloped: if there's a problem with a picture, you find out immediately and can correct the problem and... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
3: ...d East Germany. It was built in [[1961]] and fortified over the years, but was opened to unrestricted ...
13: ...East Germany with economic collapse. This had ramifications for the whole Communist bloc and particula...
17: ...st Germans were to fall back and were not to fire first under any circumstances.
27: ...or. The battle groups were pentomic, with 1362 officers and men each. On 16 August, Kennedy had give...
29: ...Frederick O Hartel and his brigade, now of 4224 officers and men. Every three months for the next thr... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rg]]. Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [...
19: ...onsidering that he was the first in his family to finish school), Bach took a post as organist at [[Ar...
22: ... [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys — and the m...
24: ...k introduces two major themes into Bach's corpus: firstly, his dedication to teaching, and secondly, h...
28: ...rk from this period is secular in nature. The ''[[Brandenburg concerti]]'', as well as many other instrumental ... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Arctic Wolf (3212 bytes)
27: ...rcity of grazing plants, they roam large areas to find prey, up to and beyond 2600 [[square kilometer|...
31: ...ue to the Arctic's [[permafrost]] soil and the difficulty it poses for digging dens, Arctic Wolves oft...
39: * L. David Mech (text), Jim Brandenburg (photos), ''At home with the arctic wolf'', [[Nat...
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