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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... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To ...
13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disea...
15: ..., [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], as well a...
17: ...ovided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]...
19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts ... - Euphonium (3735 bytes)
8: ...- this is called "conical bore", as distinguished from "cylindrical bore" instruments, which maintain ...
10: ... tuning slide attached to it. The order of length from shortest to longest is 2, 1, 3, 4. The 4th valv...
12: ...ard, and is sometimes made with the valves on the front of the instrument. It is as conical in design ...
14: ...nets|Planets Suite]]). The name "euphonium" comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word "euphonion", ... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was ...
3: ...[Native Americans]]/[[First Nations]]) sided with France although some did fight alongside the British...
8: ...strian Succession]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich provin...
10: ...e)|Hanoverian]] possession as being threatened by France. Great Britain's alliance with Prussia was a ...
14: ...ire|Great Britain]] and [[French colonial empires|France]]. - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
10: *[[1932]] - [[Bonus Army]] marches on DC
15: *[[1933]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
25: *[[1933]] - [[Frances Perkins]] appointed [[United States Secretar...
28: *[[1933]] - [[Japan]] and [[Germany]] withdraw from [[League of Nations]] - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ited States]] and [[Britain]] would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied inva...
11: ...er [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First S...
13: ...came to be called the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iro...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ...|AE]]) is an [[annual]] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movement, to ce...
3: ...bourne]], [[Australia]], stopped work and marched from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House...
7: ... concept of a Labour Day actually originated with marches in both [[Toronto]] and [[Ottawa]] in [[1872]]. O...
13: ...r Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact that white clothes are worse protectio...
19: ...], just one day later, on [[May 2]] [[1933]], all free unions were outlawed and destroyed. But since t... - Pope Adrian I (2590 bytes)
1: ...''', (died [[December 25]], [[795]]) was [[pope]] from [[772]] to [[795]]. He was the son of Theodore,...
3: ...nd it necessary to invoke the aid of the [[Franks|Frankish]] king [[Charlemagne]], who entered
4: ...ed of the "five cities" on the [[Adriatic]] coast from [[Rimini]] to [[Ancona]] with the coastal plain...
6: ...ints]]. Notwithstanding this, a synod, held at [[Frankfurt]] in [[794]], anew condemned the practice,... - Regions of Italy (3031 bytes)
3: However, five regions ([[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]], [[Sardinia]], [[Sicily]], [...
20: <tr><td>8. [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]]<td>[[Trieste]] - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
20: ... a "bad order", to withdraw his troops, he was confronted by another superior. He explained his ration...
26: ... began a Sunday school for blacks, both slave and free.
30: ...]], Jackson married again. Mary Anna Morrison was from North Carolina, where her father was the first ...
36: ...ginia infantry regiments. All of these units were from the [[Shenandoah Valley]] region of Virginia.
38: ...place at Harpers Ferry, Colonel Jackson jumped in front of a soldier who was about to be killed by a s... - National anthem (4891 bytes)
3: ...hem is the "[[Wilhelmus van Nassouwe|Wilhelmus]]" from [[The Netherlands]], it was written between [[1...
5: ...lmost every national anthem. Even in nations of Africa and Asia, where western orchestral music was a...
9: ...e anthems of the [[USSR]], [[USA]], the [[EU]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Spain]] and [[Hungary]].
11: ... by [[Joseph Haydn]] to the words "[[Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]," it became notorious during the ...
19: ...ropean Union]]; the [[United Nations]] and the [[African Union]] also have unofficial anthems. The [[h... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...alvados, France|Falaise]], [[Normandy]], now in [[France]], William succeeded to the throne of England...
14: ...rp his place. King [[Henri I of France|Henry I of France]] knighted him at the age of 15. By the time ...
23: ...ade the promise under duress and so may have felt free to break it.
31: ...h-west peninsula. Risings occurred in the [[Welsh Marches]] and at [[Stafford]]. Most seriously William fac...
34: ...acing [[History of the English Language#Period of French Domination|English]] as the language of the r... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
29: ...language|Extremaduran]]) as ''chalaque'', then in French as ''cheraqui'', and then by the English as '...
31: ... sound after early contact with Europeans of both French and Spanish ancestry in Georgia and Alabama d...
33: ...om the [[Choctaw]] trade language. It was derived from the Choctaw word "Cha-la-kee" which means "thos...
46: ...dia of North American Indians'']; 2000 population from a [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2...
84: The Cherokee nation was unified from an interrelated society of city-states in the e... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
1: ...C]]) was an [[Assyria]]n king. He took the throne from [[Shalmanassar V]] in [[722 BC]]. It is not cle...
3: ...abitants of the towns of [[Assur]] and [[Harran]] from taxes.
10: ...nst [[Urartu]] in 714 is well known from a letter from Sargon to the god Ashur (found in the town of [...
14: ...ainst him, he turned back to Lake Urmia in forced marches and defeated an Urartian army in a steep valley o...
18: ...the Assyrians; 334,000 objects in total. A relief from Dur Sharrukin depicted the sack of Musasir as w... - 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... - Roman road (3913 bytes)
4: ...e that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in c...
14: ===[[France]]===
15: * [[Via Aquitania]], from [[Narbonne]], where it connected to the Via Dom...
16: * [[Via Domitia]] ([[118 BC]]), from [[Nimes]] to the [[Pyrenees]], where it joins t...
20: * [[Via Aemilia]], from [[Rimini|Ariminum]] to [[Piacenza]]
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