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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
7: ...ed a ''fretted clavichord''. This technique simplifies the construction since fewer strings are requir...
13: ...Simmonds, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spanyi, and fine modern copies have been made by makers includin...
15: ...es a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
7: ...[[clarinetist]] working in Paris, and was first officially revealed to the public in the patent of [[1...
9: ...s the most likely origin (doing so results in a definitely saxophone-like sound). Sax worked in his fa...
11: ...re or modify the instruments. After 1866 many modifications were introduced by a number of manufacture...
16: With a simple fingering system, the modern saxophone is commonly c...
25: ...ich more easily "cuts through" a big band or amplified instruments. While high baffles (and the resul... - Alto saxophone (1789 bytes)
8: ...ersatility and is used commonly in concert, jazz, funk, blues, pop, and rock music. - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
16: ...everal trumpeters have achieved fame for their proficiency in the extreme higher register of the instr...
28: The first trumpets reputedly came from [[Egypt]], and we...
30: ... [[blues]], [[Popular Music|pop]], [[ska]], and [[funk]]. Among the great modern trumpet players are [[M...
37: ... Carl Fisher, Inc.) but include much of the unmodified original text from the 1894 edition.
51: ... exercises that change notes without changing the fingering. This forces all of the work to come from... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ... '''dictionary''' is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their [[glyph]]...
17: ...nd to be minimizing, whereas single-field and sub-field dictionaries tend to be maximizing. See also [...
23: ...on English [[idiom]]s and [[metaphor]]s, can be defined.
29: ...nary makers apply two basic philosophies to the defining of words: ''prescriptive'' or ''descriptive''...
33: ...y incorporating judgmental interpretations into definitions themselves, such as, "an offensive term fo... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ...
37: *[[1949]] - [[Luis MuMar�] became the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Ri... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
4: ...can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can prod...
5: ...nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health.
10: ..., except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first step which makes the different chemical compou...
14: ...ation]] is very high. This makes [[science|scientifically]] valid nutritional study very time-consumin...
20: ...ily [[vegetarian]] with infrequent game meats and fish where available. - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...grants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term properly can be applied to ...
10: According to [[2003]] U.S. [[Census]] figures, some 37.1 million African Americans live in...
17: ...h obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they...
19: ...ited States]], led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Am...
26: ...ericans are frequently the targets of [[racial profiling]]. They are more likely to be stopped by poli... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
9: In his fifth year he was sent for his early education to th...
11: Finally the family yielded and the Dominicans sent T...
14: ...er, he received the degree and entered upon his office of teaching in [[1257]]; he taught in Paris for...
16: ...aving his great work, the [[Summa Theologica]], unfinished. When asked why he had stopped writing, Aqu...
18: ... On the other hand, the consciousness of the insufficiency of his works in view of the revelation whic... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...hemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
11: ... traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in the gaps.
17: ...of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of chemistry and modern [[medicine]].
21: ...s research did not enter the mainstream of scientific discussion.
23: ...ms, being unstable [[isotope]]s, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart. More recently... - Vitamin (5982 bytes)
3: ...'Vita'' in Latin is ''life'' and the ''-amin'' suffix is short for ''[[amine]]''; at the time it was t...
7: ...ness, now known to be caused by a [[Vitamin A]] deficiency. In [[1747]], the [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[...
9: ...1920]], [[Jack Cecil Drummond]] proposed that the final "e" be dropped, to deemphasize the "amine" ref...
20: ! Deficiency Disease
108: === Vitamin deficiency and excess === - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
3: ...ecially into finer genres or subgenres, can be difficult for newly emerging styles or for pieces of mu...
5: ...le of this is [[video game music]], which while defined by its media, can also represent its own style...
7: ...history]], and makes it easier for individuals to find artists that they enjoy.
13: These definitions are relatively short and simple, referring...
18: ... classical music]] (an older usage describes specifically the Western art music of the [[Classical Mus... - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
4: ... centuries ago with the [[Native American]]s, the first people to populate [[North America]]. These i...
8: ...kraine|Ukrainian]] and [[Poland|Polish]] [[fiddle|fiddling]], [[music of Scotland|Scottish]] and [[mus...
10: ...he end [[1940s]], jazz had grown into such varied fields as [[bebop]] and [[swing music|swing]], while...
12: ...l music|heavy metal]] to [[punk rock|punk]] and [[funk]]. In the [[1970s]], urban African Americans in ...
17: The first musicians anywhere in North America were [[Nat... - Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
8: ...own]] and his ever-evolving backing band invent [[funk]].
10: ...the [[Bakersfield Sound]]. For a time, the Bakersfield Sound was the only homegrown music that could ...
14: ...nered critical acclaim during much of the decade, finally breaking through in a big way very late in t...
16: ==Diversification of pop music==
18: ...e Highway"), [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] ("Great Balls of Fire") and [[Chet Atkins]] ("Mr. Sandman")), as well... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
3: .... state]] of [[Washington]], located in the [[Pacific Northwest]].
5: ...ict of Columbia is a [[federal district]] as specified by the [[United States Constitution]] with limi...
9: ...d of Washington DC is the [[wood thrush]]. The official motto is ''Justitia Omnibus'' (Justice for Al...
48: ...eral government. Politicians and candidates for office sometimes use these terms pejoratively to conve...
77: ... Civil War|U.S. Civil War]] in [[1861]]. The significant expansion of the federal government to admini...
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