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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
16: ...any pipers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is use...
23: ...ions are thought to have marched to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and combining it with a...
25: ...Wha Hae]]", "Hey Tutti Taiti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruc...
35: ...ags that deal with moisture arguably better than hide or older synthetic bags. - Yolanda of Flanders (2422 bytes)
3: ..., Yolanda ruled as regent. She allied with the [[Bulgaria]]ns against the various Byzantine successor state...
5: ...on [[Robert of Courtenay]] because her first son did not want the throne. As Robert was still in [[Fr...
23: | width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by:<br>'''[[Pet...
24: | width="40%" align="center" | '''[[Latin Empire|Latin ...
25: | width="30%" align="center" | Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Ro... - Rose (15436 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Rosoideae]]}}
15: ...[http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/260/Rosaceae/Slide17.html U. of Illinois] 2002-05-29</small>
23: ... of the stem. The vast majority of roses are [[deciduous]], but a few (particularly in southeast [[Asi...
27: ... Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, and inside containing 5-25 [[seed]]s (technically [[achene]... - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
3: ... plates: similar sheets have been discovered in [[Bulgaria]]. Technically, these are all [[inscription]]s ra...
12: ...eused as [[mummy]]-wrappings, discarded in the [[midden]]s of [[Oxyrhyncus]] or secreted for safe-keep... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...slav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
13: ...istory of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
21: ...spoken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ...a since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets ...
34: ...language of the modern Greek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today. - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...ece|Greeks]], [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], and the [[Middle-East]] (Arab/Persian/Semitic) cultures. The [[...
9: ...atin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'), in [[Greek]] "me...
11: ...#1492;תיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equiv...
17: ...ely, on the east. The Sea of Marmara is often considered a part of the Mediterranean Sea, whereas the ...
19: [[Tide]]s are very limited in the Mediterreanean as a r... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...ost part of [[Eurasia]]. It is conventionally considered a [[continent]], which, in this case, is more...
6: When considered a continent, Europe is the world's second sma...
13: ...ob'' or ''erebu'' which means "sunset". From a [[Middle East]]ern viewpoint, the sun sets over Europe:...
18: ...ges]]" to [[Renaissance]] thinkers and as the "[[Middle Ages]]" to [[Enlightenment]] and modern histor...
20: ...to vast upheaval in Europe as these revolutionary ideas propagated across the continent. The rise of d... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
137: * [[Bulgaria]] - [[Sofia]]
163: * [[Spain]] (España) - [[Madrid]]
180: *[[Barbados]] - [[Bridgetown]]
208: *[[Trinidad and Tobago]] - [[Port-of-Spain]]
230: * [[Uruguay]] - [[Montevideo]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
10: <tr><td>[[Abidjan]] <td>[[C?d'Ivoire]] (administrative)
49: <tr><td>[[Bridgetown]] <td>[[Barbados]]
124: <tr><td>[[Madrid]] <td>[[Spain]]
139: <tr><td>[[Montevideo]] <td>[[Uruguay]]
167: <tr><td>[[Port-of-Spain]] <td>[[Trinidad and Tobago]] - Turkey (41694 bytes)
14: leader_titles = [[President of Turkey|President]]<br>[[List of Prime Ministers of Turkey|Prime...
49: ... Mediterranean) to the west. Some geographers consider Turkey to be, also a part of [[Europe]] due to ...
50: ... Turkey borders eight countries: [[Greece]] and [[Bulgaria]] to the northwest; [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]...
58: The rich history of people and the land laid the foundations of the current republic. Even tho...
68: ...ven years by the Grand National Assembly. The President does not have to be a member of parliament. - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Balkan peninsula]]. It has land boundaries with [[Bulgaria]], the [[Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]],...
2: ... 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
6: ...large.png|125px|Flag of Greece]] || align=center width=130px | [[Image:Greece_coa.png|125px|Coat of Ar...
8: ...[Flag of Greece|National Flag]]) || align=center width=130px |
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]] - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ... the west; [[Serbia and Montenegro|Serbia]] and [[Bulgaria]] to the south along the [[Danube]] River. Romani...
19: leader_titles = [[President of Romania|President]] <br> [[Prime Minister of Romania|Prime Minis...
62: ...the 13th and 14th century respectively. In the [[Middle Ages]], Romanians lived in three distinct prin...
64: ...riods of independence. Moldavia lost its eastern side [[Bessarabia]] to the [[Russian Empire]] in 1812...
68: ...sh War]], in which Romania fought on the Russian side. At that time, Russia once again seized the two ... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...ents on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]],...
10: Ancient Greece is considered by most historians to be the foundational cul...
15: ...no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondary and tertiary texts such [...
17: ...rks have survived, notably [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Xenophon]], [[Demosthenes]], [[Plato]] and...
20: ... a written record begins to appear. Greece was divided into many small self-governing communities, a p... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e generally centered on [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15...
6: ... reference point for Time Zones is the [[Prime Meridian]] ([[longitude]] 0?) which passes through the ...
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only betwe...
18: ...r time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is o...
27: See also: [[Sidereal time]] [[Calculating local time]] - String instrument (8163 bytes)
10: .... It should be noted that the piano is often considered a [[percussion]] instrument, since sound prod...
18: ...wrote music which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to ...
22: ...[timbre]]. Application of the bow close to the bridge (known as ''[[sul ponticello]]'') produces an i...
28: ...nd; the other has a plucking point close to the bridge, producing a "nasal" sound rich in upper harmon...
32: ...in, for example, the taut strings pass over a ''bridge'' resting on a hollow box. - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ...h is a flag if it is flown like a flag, with one side attached, though many flags are recognisable if ...
11: ... were used mainly during battles to identify individual leaders: in [[Europe]] they were the [[knight]...
14: [[Image:Australiaflag.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
15: ... to identify not just nationalities but also individual military units. Flags became much more elabora...
27: ..., [[Flag of Croatia|Croatia]], [[Flag of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]. - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ... 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
29: ... of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
46: ...e empire into a ''pars Orientis'' and a ''pars Occidentis''. Others place it during the reign of [[The...
51: ...ncient presecessors. Standardization of the term did not occur until the 17th century when French auth...
55: ==Identity== - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...s were controlled by moving your entire body ([[glider]]s) or warping the planes' wings ([[Wright brot...
15: ...y and the prototype actually flew. However, a considerable amount of interpretation of his design, wit...
17: ... confident that the problem would be solved. He said "It seems easier to talk of such a machine than t...
19: ...rage" in Europe in the late [[18th century]], providing the first detailed understanding of the relati...
21: ...half of the 20th century, the [[airship]] was considered to be a serious option for air transport. - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...nd some of the century's first large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties,...
6: ...d the end of the Ottoman Empire in the east and laid the basis for a modern democratic Islamic state, ...
8: ...an diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of nationalism that swept the European continent...
10: ...e on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and ground combat.
19: ...e progressed scholars began looking toward the rigidity of French, British, German, Austrian and Russi... - World War II (58065 bytes)
6: ...ica]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South...
8: ... as a result of the war]], including acts of genocide such as [[the Holocaust]], the [[Rape of Nanking...
16: ...ted in the war, more or less voluntarily, on the side of the power that in their neighbourhood was the...
18: ...s did not have a profound impact on the war, nor did they supply the Axis powers with any great abunda...
24: ... be "Allied-friendly" while neutral Spain was considered "Axis-friendly," despite the fact that neithe...
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