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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. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ... to circumnavigate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and En...
16: ...ges of treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and ...
18: ... relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appoin...
20: ...'s enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair.
25: ...ly into London, her half-sister Elizabeth at her side. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...el of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fi...
5: ...inchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her malady that she died ther...
12: ...r novels features women, purportedly because she did not know how men spoke when not in the presence o...
17: * ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813)
39: Reference: David Cecil, ''A portrait of Jane Austen'' (1978) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: ...e]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistent...
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English...
13: ...he Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions r...
15: ...], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I a...
17: [[Hermione Lee]]'s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, u... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
6: ...t was Augusta who encouraged Byron to marry to avoid scandal, and he reluctantly chose Annabella. On [...
11: ...ble Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelac...
13: ... Other acquaintances were [[David Brewster|Sir David Brewster]], [[Charles Wheatstone]], [[Charles Dic...
15: ...li numbers and sent it back for amendment. The evidence and correspondence between Lovelace and Babba...
17: ... famous in her own right as a traveller in the [[Middle East]] and a breeder of [[Arabian horse]]s. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament ...
6: ...m, but he forbade her: "[[John 20:17|17]] Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet a...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
12: ...a and her role among some early Christians is provided by the [[gnostic]], [[New Testament Apocrypha|a...
14: ...red, how shall we be spared?" And Mary Magdalene bids them take heart: "Let us rather praise his great... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
10: ...m was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th century.
12: ...o grant children. Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindnes...
16: ...again. With eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the unique gift to s...
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23: | width="150" | [[Hanyu Pinyin]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...well as many other developed religious systems besides that of [[Christianity]]. Relics are an import...
7: ...ch]] of [[Warfhuizen]]. The bone fragment in the middle is from saint Boniface himself, the little fol...
9: ...e tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.
17: ...virtus'' inhabited images of the pagan gods, the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroyin...
26: ...t are enshrined in churches and cathederals worldwide must be at least a finger or small bone, etc. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: In the European [[Middle Ages]], [[musica]] was part of the mathematica...
10: ...ns. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ...e certain beneficiary effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be...
17: ...r music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many other languages have te...
21: ...sicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classic... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
16: | vicepresident=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
18: ...His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]])...
28: ...iod—as, for example, during his term as president. - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ...clude ''Adrastus'', ''Linus'', ''Cycnus'', ''Eumenides'', ''Philoctetes'', ''Pirithous'', ''Theseus'',...
5: ...to obscurity. Athenaeus also claimed that [[Euripides]] took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes ... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...ians]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
19: ...irst two parts of the Oresteia end unhappily. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' grea...
22: *''[[The Suppliants]]'' ([[490 BC]]?) (''Hiketides'')
28: **''[[The Eumenides]]''
30: ...ed to Aeschylus in antiquity, it is generally considered by modern scholars to be the work of an unkno... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th centu...
3: ...o [[Sparta]], where he lived in the family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated. His mastery of Gre...
5: ...ocessionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
7: ...implicity. The fragments are scanty, the most considerable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 185... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
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63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
112: *[[Trigonometric identity|Trigonometric identities]]
122: *[[List of satellites which have provided data on the magnetosphere]] - 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== - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
2: ...ns4.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval Musicians. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
3: ...ire]] ([[476]] CE) and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Though establishing ...
17: ...he treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notational system f...
18: ...uitar.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Lute Guitar. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
19: ...o can be said to have done for it what Garlandia did for the rhythmic modes. - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
2: {{Middle Ages Tall}}
5: ...ll self-contained [[fortress]], usually of the [[Middle Ages]],
11: ...a strip of clear ground immediately inside or outside the wall. The word is a [[medieval]] and later o...
13: ... defenders a clear view of what was happening outside and an unobstructed field of shot. An internal ...
15: ...m an army as they were not designed for resisting canon shot. They might have been rebuilt as at [[Berwic... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ...r '''deoxyribose nucleic acid''' is a [[nucleic acid]] that contains the [[genetics|genetic]] [[instr...
12: ...'m not saying is happening here) is also to be avoided. --[[User:Lexor|Lexor]]|[[User talk:Lexor|Talk]...
29: ...aming only one base on the conventionally chosen side of the strand is enough to describe the sequence...
31: ...and plus the bases it collects from the soup will ideally end up as a complete replica of the original...
32: ...ions can be described as combinations of these accidental "operations".
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