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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...rmally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [...
18: ...t exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Musette du Cour, and several varieties of Sco...
23: ...Proscription]], and the entire myth seems to stem from the letterpress of Donald MacDonald's Martial M...
25: ...An explosion of popularity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert...
35: ...er is [[Mixolydian_mode|mixolydian]] with a range from one degree lower than the tonic to one octave a... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...]] whose work is considered part of the [[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose appa...
5: ...l-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[Addison's disease]], the cause of which was t...
12: ...ents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her cha...
14: ...h she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publication. They are:
33: *Love and Freindship [sic] - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
1: [[Image:morrison_toni.jpg|frame||Toni Morrison]]
2: '''Toni Morrison''' is an [[African-American]] [[author]], born '''Chloe Anthony ...
4: ...eedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ...e]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...bel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
20: ... the largely failed role of women in the literary canon and the future of women in education and society.
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
25: ...ace occupies a politically sensitive space in the canon of historical figures in [[computer science]], an... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament ...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
4: ...Kanzeon'''; the spelling '''Kwannon''', resulting from an obsolete system of romanization, is sometime...
10: ...er Buddhism was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th century.
12: ...ful, white-robed woman, a depiction which derives from the earlier ''[[Pandaravasini]]'' form.
16: ...k together again. With eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the uniqu...
68: ...ern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition. - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: The word '''relic''' comes from the Latin ''reliquiae'' ('remains') and there a...
7: ... folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of saint [[Benedict of Nursia]] and [[Bern...
11: ...nable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coulombs]] in [[France]], among several others, claims to possess th...
15: ...describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The...
17: ...ue" was also a false mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting [[daemon]]s who were conceived of as... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...]s. The word has been used to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a p...
4: ...of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek word for [[muses|muse]]. I...
10: ... refers strictly to the mathematical proportions. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea o...
12: ...cult sciences]] or [[esoteric thought]] - ranging from [[astrology]] to believing certain [[minerals]]...
14: ...t the mathematical or physical relationships in [[frequency]] that give rise to the [[musical interval... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
31: ... in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the op...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
3: ...n a victory. A quote in [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[The Frogs]]'' suggests he was dead by [[405 BC]]. Some c...
5: ...us, while Aristophanes quotes him twice, in ''The Frogs'' and ''[[The Wasps]]''. - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
7: Aeschylus frequently travelled to [[Sicily]], where the [[tyra...
11: ...is gravestone covers Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, from Athens, who died in fertile Gela.
30: In addition, the canon of Aeschylus' plays includes a seventh, ''[[Prome...
32: In early [[1990]]s fragments of another Aeschylus play, which had been ...
46: ===Fragments=== - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th centu...
7: ... seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being pa... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
398: *[[List of fruits]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: ...inian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
27: ...n the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: ...the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe...
61: ...re, particularily in the [[acritic songs]], where frontiersmen (ακρίτε&#... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...tion]] construction and use in [[Europe]] roughly from the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] to the [[Renai...
5: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''ca...
11: ...The word is a [[medieval]] and later one, derived from the classical [[Latin]] ''post murum'', behind ...
15: ...ences were developed in the [[Netherlands]] and [[France]] but these belong mainly to the post-medieva...
20: ...called [[abbey]], [[priory]], [[charterhouse]], [[friary]], and preceptory, while the habitation of [[... - DNA (29095 bytes)
5: ...gical cell|cell]] organisms, DNA is not separated from the [[cytoplasm]] by a [[nuclear envelope]]. In...
10: ...e-but-impossible-to-read one! It has been assumed from the beginning that this is not necessarily a ve...
14: ...only'' contained scientific data -- that would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
31: ...lit half of the strand plus the bases it collects from the soup will ideally end up as a complete repl...
35: ...or was unknown and only a DNA sample was obtained from the scene (particularly in [[rape]] cases betwe...
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