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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
103: ...79 ''[[A Perfect Match]]'' This Live Performance from the 1979 [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] is also ava... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...ur [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ..., she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...acquired a reputation as a "[[Amphetamine|speed]] freak" and occasional [[heroin]] user. She also used...
8: ...Port Arthur to recuperate, she again moved to San Francisco in [[1966]], where her bluesy vocal style ...
12: ...perhitscover.jpg|left|thumb|Janis Joplin singing, from the cover of the posthumous album ''Super Hits'... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
2: A '''harmonica''' is a [[Free reed instrument|free reed]] musical [[wind instrument]] (also
3: ...n, among other things, as a '''mouth organ''', '''french harp''', simply '''harp''', or
6: dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly
9: Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as [[organ (music)|reed ...
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds accessed by a - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ... instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau was eventually incorporated into...
4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon....
9: ...n automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the other. A [[gourd]] ...
11: ...so be altered by moving the caba硠back and forth from the abdomen, producing a wah-like sound.
34: ...ing, and by sliding the gourd a little up or down from the place where the sound is best. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ... religion. Early forms of art in China were made from pottery, jade and by bronze casting in the Shan...
14: ... latter who introduced the stanza form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of lan...
29: ...s a sense of grandeur; this applies to everything from palaces to farmhouses. One notable exception is...
38: ...sty]]. Artifact circulating in US museums on loan from Beijing]]
83: ...] - [[Shanghai cuisine]] - [[Soy sauce]] - [[Stir frying]] - [[Szechuan cuisine]] - [[Szechuan pepper]... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marq...
47: ... in June [[1833]]. Primarily, they were families from [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York]], [[Ind...
51: ...e [[Iowa General Assembly]] passed a [[women's suffrage]] amendment in [[1870]].
55: ...ary industry is agriculture, it also produces [[refrigerator]]s, [[washing machine]]s, [[fountain pen]...
128: *2.1% [[African American|Black]] - Maryland (22654 bytes)
8: Nickname = Old Line State; Free State |
47: ...sm mandatory, a large number of Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a...
53: ... that [[the Star Spangled Banner]] was written by Francis Scott Key.
81: ...summers and cold winters. Growing climate varies from USDA Zone 8 on the Eastern Shore and in the cit...
148: [[Image:Mduds.jpg|thumb|right|The sample version of Maryland's [[license plate]], first in... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
42: ...[British Monarchs|King]] of [[England]], and once from the [[Native American]] tribes which lived on t...
44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs th...
52: ...the thirteen colonies that had complete religious freedom. Under the terms of the charter, only lando...
56: ...e settlers of Portsmouth had purchased their land from his father, [[Massasoit]]. King Philip rebelle...
60: ...less class developed. By 1829, 60% of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote. - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
42: ...ges, while others are virtually indistinguishable from non-Amish or Mennonites.
55: ...en founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and named it for the [[Lati...
59: ...rench]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. The French established numerous fortifications in the ar...
61: The colony's reputation of religious freedom also attracted significant populations of [[...
67: ...turning point of the [[American Civil War]]. Dead from this battle rest at [[Gettysburg National Cemet... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
70: ... is likely to have heard the terms because of his frequent encounters with [[Mohegan]]s in the late [[... - Montana (14119 bytes)
38:
188: ...age:Mt00s.jpg|thumb|right|The current [[Montana]] sample [[license plate]]. A variety of other license pla...
207: *[http://classroomclipart.com Free Clipart] - Nevada (17565 bytes)
37: ...04]] was estimated to be 2,334,771, up nearly 17% from the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 census]] f...
41: Despite the name's derivation from the Spanish word ''nevada'' meaning "snowy", th...
49: ...territory and adopted its current name, shortened from ''Sierra Nevada'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]...
55: ...ush Rebels") maintain that it was due to pressure from mining interests to keep land out of the hands ...
81: ...n Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno attract visitors from around the world. - Sun (20830 bytes)
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ...
128: ...istance of about 25,000 to 28,000 [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolut... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
6: ...l]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] displays a moon rock sample which the public can see and touch, a [[Gemini]] ...
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
49: [[Image:Islamic MedText c1500.jpg|thumb|left|Sample of Islamic medical text]] - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ch as by adjusting 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: ...simulated by many modern synthesizers and digital samplers. - Microscope (8708 bytes)
8: ...hanism to hold the material to be examined (the [[sample]] or specimen). This use of a single, convex lens...
16: [[image:Microscope.png|frame|none|Basic microscope main elements]]
29: [[Image:Microscope diagram.png|right|frame|Common optical microscope and its principal pa...
34: ...ns, they utilize light passing through the sample from below and special techniques are usually necess...
36: ...roscope is used, where the light is ''reflected'' from the examined surface. The light is fed th... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
59: [[Image:Ilolluds.jpg|thumb|right|The sample version of the current [[Illinois]] [[license pla... - April (9790 bytes)
7: ...oices of the birds, and of the hearts of men", or from the [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] name ''Apru'...
18: * In ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]] found only cause for celebrat...
63: *1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 18, 1906)
87: *Freedom Shrine Month
172: *National TV-Free Week
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