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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...nd memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[S...
17: ...tova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
12: ...r to remotely sign a book as well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the d...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...u Oughta Know", led Morissette to be labeled the "first lady of rage", though the album itself contain...
14: In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
26: :''And your fake identification''
36: ...t double [[RIAA certification|platinum]], and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the C...
42: ...f [[Ottawa]] to [[Toronto]]. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy o... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
5: ...n]] who may have had affairs with many military officers and politicians.
7: ...uilty and [[Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad]] on [[October 15]], [[1917]]. Mata Har...
9: ...ims she blew a [[kiss]] to her killers before the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did ...
11: ...n named Pierre de Morrisac arranging to bribe the firing squad into loading their guns with [[blank (c...
15: The [[1931]] film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in ... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and television actress.
4: ...y starred together in a [[British sitcom]], ''[[A Fine Romance]]''. In [[1988]], she was made a [[Orde...
6: ...'[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the aforementioned ''A Fine Romance''.
17: ===Selected Filmography===
30: ...the [[James Bond]] series and has appeared in the films: - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
10: ..., and four film roles, including ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' and ''[[Bush Christmas]]''. D...
19: ...hut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final [[film]], when she co-starred with her husband as a ma...
23: ...s (2001 film)|The Others]]''. While in Australia filming ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, ...
24: ...e same year she took a hand at production for the film ''[[In the Cut]]''.
26: ...prestigious [[Golden Lion Award]] at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous s...
5: ...der of this article will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses...
9: ...ak into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of...
22: ...ections doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emis...
32: ...sorbs [[infrared]] energy, such as heat absorbing filters for movie projectors, while [[cerium]] can b... - Music (16462 bytes)
20: ... all music may necessarily require an expansive definition of tonality. A [[pulse (music)|pulse]] is s...
25: ...h is an abstraction which refers to either a specific pitch and/or rhythm or the written symbol; [[mel...
43: ... has no known individual composer, is often classified as "traditional". Different musical traditions ...
54: ...ractice of Western [[classical music]], but the definition of [[composition]] is broad enough to inclu...
61: The field of [[music cognition]] involves the study of m... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: A '''map''' is a simplified depiction of a [[space]], a navigational aid wh...
9: ... tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific [[cosmography]], showing the relationship of the...
11: ...o the mile." A character notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that "we now use ...
13: ...n importance. In terms of quantity, the most significant number of drawn map sheets is probably made u...
17: ... oriented with the north up, hence north is identified with the top of a sheet. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ... some regions "curtall", as it was shortened significantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from...
10: ...omposer-performers—spurred on the further refinement of the bassoon. Increased sophistication bo...
16: ... the finger holes are drilled obliquely to aid in fingering, and wooden instruments are lined with a h...
20: ...even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]] only a... - Ocarina (3914 bytes)
2: ... oval-shaped, enclosed space and four to thirteen finger holes. A mouth tube projects from it, often f...
5: ...holes or cracks were (un)covered with the hand or fingers. The [[Meissen]] factory in [[Germany]] did...
7: ==Classification==
15: Different notes are produced by fingering the holes, opening and closing more or les...
18: ...0th century]] due to the release of two popular [[video game]]s for the [[Nintendo 64]], ''[[Legend of Ze... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: ...y the hands plus a [[pedalboard]]. Three, four or five manuals plus pedals is not uncommon for a large...
7: ...ce of [[classical music]]. In the era of [[silent film]]s, large pipe organs were installed in many [[...
19: ... of several styles as a compromise, and so do not fit comfortably into any of them.
41: Organs were the first keyboard instruments, even though technically ...
47: ...ctronic pipeless organs were developed that could fill similar musical roles, see [[organ (music)]]. H... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de...
48: ...th century]], when [[John Hanning Speke]] was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria. Various earli... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]|
58: ...oundations of the current republic. Even though official history of the state begins on [[May 19]], [[...
62: ... the history of Turkey. The least disputed classification is based on three global periods: [[Turkish...
72: ...ces. The Grand National Assembly is elected every five years. To be represented in Parliament, a party...
84: ... to brief prison sentences. Three-judge courts of first instance have jurisdiction over major civil su... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
15: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Q...
67: ... its seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]] fields, together with the port of [[Antofagasta]], t...
69: ...]] [[Capitalism|capitalist]] policies through the first third of the century.
76: ...ncy, but [[human rights]] violations and eventual fiscal crises undercut his support. He was forced to...
79: ...orious for human rights abuses, [[narcotics]] trafficking, and economic mismanagement. Later convicted... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a...
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