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- Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
2: ... "emperor," rather than ''basilissa'', "empress") from [[797]] to [[802]]. She was the wife of [[Leo I...
8: ...these, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the soldiers. The se...
10: ... restive under her autocratic sway. An attempt to free himself by force was met and crushed by the emp...
12: ...se of the sun]] and a darkness of seventeen days' duration were attributed by the common superstition to the...
14: ...eophanes]], who alone mentions it, the scheme was frustrated by Aëtius, one of her favourites. A ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
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]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Hair (11457 bytes)
4: ...ulation]] from cold weather and, in some species, from particularly hot weather. Because hair is often...
6: ...aces, arms, chests and legs, but the hair growing from the top of the head is generally kept short, re...
13: ...neath. Head hair, by comparison, grows for a long duration and to a great length before being shed. [[Anthr...
19: ...edal locomotion possibly predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. ...
23: ...example, virtually intact hair has been recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs. Different parts of the ... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...ling them to be correctly called [[Gymnosperm]]s. From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms...
18: ...d the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then grad...
22: ...re not, however, primitive forms, but are derived from immediate land-ancestors. Associated with this ...
24: ... the angiosperms and the [[Gnetophyte]]s diverged from one another during the late [[Triassic]] (220-2...
47: ... regular periodical increase in thickness results from it by the development of xylem on the inside an... - Music (16462 bytes)
16: ...(music)|pitch]], [[timbre]], [[intensity]], and [[duration]]. <sup>[[#Notes|4]]</sup> These aspects combine ...
18: ...expense of rhythm and timbre. John Cage considers duration the primary aspect of music because it is the onl...
20: ...ere exist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free, improvisational rhythms with no regular pulse;...
25: ...; and [[rhythm]] which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.
38: ...lude a mixture of both, and performance may range from improvised solo playing for one's enjoyment to ... - 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... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
1: [[Image:Baritonesax.jpg|right|frame|Saxophones of different sizes play in differen...
7: ...legated to military bands--this despite his great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[...
11: ...lmost entirely in terms of Sax's patent. For the duration of the patent (1846-1866) no one except the Sax f...
16: ...instrument to learn, especially when transferring from other woodwind instruments, though a great amou...
20: ... number of saxophones being commercially produced from materials other than brass. Silver, copper and ... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
5: ... the voice of a shofar, "exceeding loud," issuing from the thick cloud on [[Mount Sinai]] that made al...
7: ... praise (Ps. xcviii. 6; comp. ib. xlvii. 5). More frequently it was used as the signal-horn of war, li...
15: ...[halakha|Jewish law]] women and minors are exempt from the command to hear the shofar-blowing, but the...
17: ...ce resembling that of a European [[trumpet]] or [[French horn]], but smaller.
25: ...ded into three disconnected or broken sounds. The duration of the teruah is equal to that of the shevarim; a... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
34: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[October 27]], [[19...
52: ...has been populated since ancient times, as armies from one empire to another decamped on their way to ...
60: Separated from [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[...
66: ...is face adorns almost everything in Turkmenistan, from banknotes to bottles of [[vodka]]. The logo of ...
96: ...ustrial production and caused the budget to shift from a surplus to a slight deficit. - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
7: ...These names are also used to distinguish the game from other sports known as "[[football]]". <!-- Plea...
11: ...rope]], [[Latin America]], and increasingly in [[Africa]] — football evokes great passions and p...
17: ...g|thumb|250px|A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal.]]
19: ...he ball close to their feet); by passing the ball from team-mate to team-mate; and by taking shots at ...
21: Football is generally a free-flowing game with the ball in play at all times... - 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. - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ..., killing many millions of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in unfavourable [[astrol...
21: ...c]] (type A influenza, H1N1 strain), which lasted from [[1918]] to [[1919]] and is believed to have ki...
23: ...sequent to the 1968 infection. Increased immunity from [[antibody|antibodies]] and the development of ...
26: ...ratory system|respiratory tract]], is transmitted from person to person by saliva droplets expelled by...
41: ...ung children are more likely to get complications from influenza. [[Pneumonia]], [[bronchitis]], [[sin... - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ng the [[pitch (music)|pitch]], [[frequency]], or duration of each [[note]].
5: French [[composer]] and engineer [[Edgar Var賥]] cr...
10: ...as followed by the [[Clavecin 鬥ctrique]] by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in [[1761]].
18: Ca. 1929 [[Friedrich Trautwein]] invented the [[Trautonium]] in...
20: ...nes using an electro-mechanical principle derived from the design of the [[Telharmonium]]. Later Hammo... - American football (39287 bytes)
7: ...le. American football evolved as a separate sport from [[Rugby football]] in the early 20th century. [...
46: ...consists of a series of individual plays of short duration, outside of which the ball is not in play. These ...
51: ...eld Goals over 50 yards (measured as the distance from the point where the ball is kicked to the end l...
52: ...an '''extra point''' or '''conversion attempt''') from just outside the end zone. They can either att...
53: ...es 2 points and gains possession from the ensuing free kick (''see "Kickoff" below''). Typically this... - 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: ...or "common time," as popularly believed. For the duration of the Medieval period, most music would be compo...
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... - Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - Season (10047 bytes)
4: ... the season of the flood, the season of emergence from the flood, and the hot harvest season.
6: ...ited States]] has its [[Tornado]] season (peaking from late winter through mid summer, depending upon ...
22: ...Antarctica, and therefore a considerable distance from the moderating influence of the southern oceans...
36: ...mid-February is not first light. The sky (as seen from Alert) has been showing twilight, or at least a...
38: ...(for just minutes per day), and then increases in duration and pre-dawn brightness each day until sunrise in... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: A '''clock''' (from the [[Latin]] ''cloca'', "[[bell]]") is an inst...
18: An ideal clock measures the ratio of the duration of natural processes, and thus will give the time...
43: ...ll used in French for large clocks. It is derived from the Greek ''hora'' meaning ‘hour’ a...
47: ...ive in any quantity are mid-[[16th century]] ones from the metalworking towns of [[Nuremberg]] and [[A...
120: * Edey, Winthrop. French Clocks. New York: Walker & Co., 1967. - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely...
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