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- Cornett (5160 bytes)
2: ...ce]] period. It was used in what are now called [[alta capella]]s or wind ensembles. It is not to be con...
14: Historically, the cornett was frequently used in consort with [[sackbutt]]s (2 cor... - Sackbut (3802 bytes)
1: ... is used to differentiate the historic instrument from its modern counterpart. Increasing interest in...
4: The sackbut derived from the medieval slide [[trumpet]]. It originated i...
16: ...[17th Century]] [[Italian music]]. Sackbuts also frequently played courtly [[dance music]].
21: ...com Concerto Palatino], [http://www.lafenice.asso.fr/ La Fenice], [http://www.piffaro.com Piffaro], th... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
39: | from [[Spain]]
60: From the [[4th century|4th]] to the [[11th century]]...
62: ...rst arrived in [[1523]] and colonised the area. [[Alta Verapaz]] is known for the fact that after failin...
65: This confederation fell apart in a war from [[1838]] to [[1840]], and Guatemala became an i...
67: ...ing to successive successful democratic elections from [[1985]] to date. The most recent democratic el... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
1: [[Image:California_flag.jpg|0px|right|framed|The modern Bear Flag of California. Image pro...
5: ...er [[Mexico|Mexican]] rule as the department of [[Alta California]], whose Spanish-speaking population o...
11: ...s on the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific, "from sea to sea" in the [[1600s]].
17: ...l it perished in the fire that followed the [[San Francisco earthquake of 1906]]. - Arizona (24367 bytes)
88: ...y]] Spanish missionaries changed Father [[Eusebio Francisco Kino]]'s maps of the area; they renamed th...
96: ...]] the land below the [[Gila River]] was acquired from Mexico in the [[Gadsden Purchase]]. Arizona was...
98: ...of [[Brigham Young]], [[Mormon]]s went to Arizona from Utah in the mid to late [[1800s]] to the [[Phoe...
115: ...Representatives are [[Rick Renzi]] (R-1), [[Trent Franks]] (R-2), [[John Shadegg]] (R-3), [[Ed Pastor]...
134: ... is about 277 mile (446 km) long, ranges in width from 6 to 29 kilometers (4 to 18 miles) and attains ... - California (63989 bytes)
91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
107: ...stern part of the U.S. portion, [[Alta California|Alta (upper) California]], was to become the U.S. stat... - Utah (29154 bytes)
74: ...e most popular destinations. The name ''Utah'' is from the [[Southern Ute language]] and means "higher...
85: [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] may have crossed int...
96: ...ce Brigham Young as territorial governor with [[Alfred Cumming]]. The resulting conflict is known as t...
98: ...nd [[Paiutes]] attacked and killed 120 immigrants from [[Missouri]], an event called the [[Mountain Me...
100: ...ng, Johnston established Fort Floyd 40 miles away from Salt Lake City, to the southwest. - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels. He ... - Venice (22017 bytes)
8: ...from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michi...
16: ...actice, a number of Doges were forced by pressure from their [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resig...
20: ...]]. This apparent lack of zeal contributed to its frequently coming into conflict with the [[Papacy]]....
24: ...nice during the [[First Coalition]]. The [[France|French]] conqueror brought to an end the most fascin...
26: ...e city on [[January 18]], [[1798]]. It was taken from Austria by the [[Treaty of Pressburg]] in [[180... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
22: ...ed [[Public school|public schools]] and graduated from Johnson City High School in [[1924]].
24: ...d the school [[newspaper]], and spent a year away from his studies teaching school, Johnson somehow ma...
27: ...erms in the [[Texas legislature]] and was a close friend to one of Texas's rising political figures, C...
29: ...ded some of the men who worked around President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], as well as fellow Texans su...
31: ...y known as Lady Bird), a young woman who was also from Texas. After only a short period of dating, the... - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
8: ...]] and rise to the rank of [[major]]. He resigned from the [[U.S. Army]] in [[June]] of [[1861]] to ca...
14: ...tionately as his ''Old War Horse''. (Longstreet's friends generally called him ''Pete''.) His record a...
18: ...Corps played the decisive role in the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]]. There, Longstreet positioned his m...
20: ...et and 15,000 men of the First Corps to be absent from the [[Battle of Chancellorsville]] in [[May]].
24: ...ead to defeat. Longstreet advocated disengagement from the enemy after the first day's battle, embarki... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
42: ... and [[Texas]]. After having won its independence from Mexico in [[1836]], the [[Republic of Texas]] w...
44: ...d [[Province of New Mexico, Mexico|Nuevo M鸩co]] from Mexico.
51: ...ar. It is also estimated that, if post-war deaths from war-related causes are counted, the combined U....
53: ...oup of several hundred immigrant soldiers (mostly from [[Ireland]]) who deserted the U.S. Army in favo...
55: According to data from the [[United States Department of Veterans Affa... - Seppala Siberian Sleddog (6982 bytes)
26: ...[[sleddog]] breed in its own right and kept apart from show bloodlines. In the late 1990s, it was reco...
29: ...-Alaska Sweepstakes]] distance race in the period from 1914 to 1917. Later they became popular in [[Ne...
31: ...Seppala Siberians until 1950 in genetic isolation from the developing Siberian Husky breed in the USA...
33: ...ance racing sleddog by Douglas W. Willett of Sepp-Alta Kennels in the state of [[Utah]]. The pure, origi...
39: Seppalas of today differ markedly from many other Siberian Husky bloodlines in physica... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...he first historical data we have from the city is from the middle of the IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]...
18: ...sh Indies]], but Madrid controlled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1606, when [[Philip III ...
20: ...have a lasting impact on French rule in Spain and France's image in Europe in general.
24: ...rero Blanco would continue the dictatorship after Franco's death--contribute to lead the country towar...
26: ...se of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan Carlos...
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