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- Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Cornet (3752 bytes)
3: ...dard [[brass band]] instrument, which was derived from the bugle family. However, lately it has been g...
7: ...ost effective in cutting through even the biggest climax.
9: ...tic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from the more penetrating sound of the trumpet. The...
11: ...This drawing of a cornet is a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]]
13: ...hort instrument and a trumpet. This instrument is frowned upon by cornet traditionalists and it is not... - Biome (5008 bytes)
5: ...and [[soil]]s, but can often be identified by the climax flora type, vertical stratification or vegetation...
11: ...sia]], ''[[savanna]]'' or [[veld]] in southern [[Africa]], ''[[prairie]]'' in [[North America]], ''[[p...
16: ... by the fact that [[biodiversity]] increases away from the poles towards the equator, and increases wi... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
44: ...the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British crown.
46: ...n [[plank]] road, known as a "farmer's railroad," from [[Fayetteville, North Carolina|Fayetteville]] i...
48: ...press the "rebellion" that "you can get no troops from North Carolina." However, under his leadership...
54: *[[1868]]: This was framed in accordance with the [[Reconstruction]] Act...
72: ...an $10,000 and misdemeanor and infraction appeals from District Court are tried in Superior Court. A j... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - Geography of the United States (15104 bytes)
61: ...oods]], the most northerly part of the U.S. apart from Alaska. In the United States, there are [[Extre...
69: *14.3 times the size of the [[France|French Republic]]
71: *three-tenths the size of [[Africa]]
93: ... Appalachian mountain system. This system had its climax of deformation so long ago (probably in [[Permian...
104: ...intermontane]] valleys, plateaus and basins range from treeless to desert with the very arid region be... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti... - 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...
20: ...widespread religious practice of [[polygamy]]. A climax occurred in [[1857]] with [[James Buchanan|Presid...
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... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...uld be used to follow it. That conflict reached a climax in September and October [[1993]], when President...
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...cs' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
14: ...go]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a State o... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
25: ...own Bear|grizzly bears]] and [[wolf|wolves]], and free-ranging herds of [[American Bison|bison]] and [...
29: ...ng previous [[ice age]]s and by [[river]] erosion from the [[Yellowstone River]].
32: ...ople incorrectly believe that the yellow color is from [[sulfur]]).
39: Mountain man [[Jim Bridger]] later returned from an 1857 expedition to the park's area and told ...
44: ...ed States|U.S. Congress]] to withdraw this region from public auction. Then on [[March 1]], [[1872]] P... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ...n because changing the name separated the country from its past. It also caused some Westerners to con...
4: ...ek name for Iran, ''Persis''. This in turn comes from a province in the south of Iran, called ''[[Far...
11: ...e Persians comes from an [[Assyria]]n inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the ''Parsu'' (Parsua...
13: ...ate]]. The Persians gradually conquered territory from the native kingdom of [[Elam]], including the i...
19: ...of the empire. He moved the administration center from Persia itself to [[Susa]], near Babylon and clo... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...ght|220px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at...
19: ...opper]] mine in nearby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to...
28: ...ed the young man needed more work to distract him from excessive [[rumination]]. He ordered the monk t...
31: ...hteousness, by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and ...
37: ...t the doctrine in question), thereby freeing them from the pains of purgatory. - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ad after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believe happened at abou...
4: ... language|German]], the holiday's name is derived from ''Pesach'', the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name...
6: ...ter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient n...
69: ...such as the one developed by mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]].
81: ...er]] and the [[Crucifixion]]. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to ... - Cymbal (7449 bytes)
9: ...simo. Cymbals are specially suited for suggesting frenzy, fury or bacchanalian revels, as in the Venus...
17: ...illed player can obtain an enormous dynamic range from such a pair of cymbals. For example, in [[Beeth...
21: ...ogether contribute to both very low and very high frequency ranges and provide a satisfying "crash-ban...
23: Clash cymbals evolved into the [[low-sock]] and from this to the modern [[hi-hat]]. Even in a modern...
27: ...emelo played in this way can build in volume to a climax in a satisfyingly smooth manner. - Ecology (24417 bytes)
1: ...866]] by the German biologist, [[Ernst Haeckel]], from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''oikos'' meaning ...
4: ...rganisms can be studied at many different levels, from [[proteins]] and [[nucleic acid]]s (in [[bioche...
17: ...major sub-disciplines include (in a nested series from the smallest to the largest in scope):
30: or from the perspective of the studied [[biomes]]:
45: ...is only the very thin surface layer which extends from 11,000 meters below sea level to 15,000 meters ... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...pic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening cere...
3: ...e|French]] nobleman, [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19t...
15: From that moment on, the Games slowly became more im...
25: ...t few centuries, similar events were organized in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale an...
27: ...0–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, a... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
41: ...any songs and TV drama series presented Christmas from a lover's point of view, for example '[[Last Ch...
48: ...banese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of th...
49: ...open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mount...
54: ...ël]]". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like "[[Joyeux Noel|Joyeux Noël]]" or Englis...
62: ...rch Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has lodged a formal compl...
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