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- Performance (3170 bytes)
2: ...]] or viewers, or [[audience]]). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and audience may become...
20: ...daily, or at some other regular [[interval (time)|interval]].
31: ...[sarcasm|sarcastically]] in reference to an individual's overwrought or excessive emotional outbursts...
41: [[Computing]] performance provides a case in point for engineering performance - ...
45: ...s to the [[activity]] of a [[unit]] (be it [[individual]], [[team]], [[department]], or [[division (or... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...lish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Len...
13: ...St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
17: ...ova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - 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...
14: ... in [[frequency]] that give rise to the [[musical interval]]s as we hear them, should be foremost among the ...
17: ...r music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many other languages have te... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ... ''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
11: ...Of all the wind instruments the clarinet has the widest compass, which is showcased in much wind band ...
20: ... — such instruments are less affected by humidity, but are heavier than the equivalent wood inst...
24: The hollow bore inside the instrument has a basically cylindrical shape...
27: ... note a [[interval (music)|twelfth]] higher. This interval corresponds to the third [[harmonic series|harmon... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
11: ...umpets in the center and with a shofar on either side. On those occasions the shofarot were rams' horn...
15: ..., which would be a reminder of the golden calf incident. A rent or hole in the shofar affecting the so...
17: ... lips to this hole, and causing the air column inside to vibrate. Shofars used in [[Ashkenazi]]c [[Jew...
19: ...(music)|intervals]] as narrow as a fourth, or as wide as a sixth may be produced.
25: ...t sounds; the latter, of nine very short notes divided into three disconnected or broken sounds. The d... - Trombone (15819 bytes)
1: ...zonSlide.jpg|thumb|250px|''Slide trombone, with slide extended.''<br>''This model has a B♭ to F ...
9: ... bore) after the lead pipe and through the hand slide. The bore expands through the neck pipe and back...
18: ...ism|Romantic era]], and the modern soloist has a wide variety of genres from which to choose. Pre-Roma...
25: ...by a definite amount, trombonists learn seven ''slide positions''.
26: ...|harmonic series]] a downwards [[interval (music)|interval]] of up to a [[tritone]] may be added to the 1st ... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ... the pipes are behind volume-regulating shutters hidden by the visible pipes. Many large installations...
19: ...s may combine several styles in an attempt to provide authentic voices for an extended repertoire, and...
35: ...ell as in Islamic [[Spain]], though there is no evidence that the European organ came by way of Spain....
63: ...ass, to save space or material, are rigged to provide multiple pitches like big [[recorder]]s: this m...
65: ...other than octaves, and are generally used to provide colourful effects. This works by reinforcing ce... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
9: ... steel string ("arame" - often pulled from the inside of an automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and se...
11: ...holds the berimbau in one hand, wrapping the two middle fingers around the verga, and placing the litt...
34: ...sound, by releasing a little the string, and by sliding the gourd a little up or down from the place w...
36: ...e difference in tone used to be about 1 tone (the interval from C to D). One can press the dobr㯠away enoug...
40: ...producing a nice sound than about naming the individual sounds. - Argentina (30219 bytes)
15: leader_titles = [[President of Argentina|President]]|
59: .... Foreign investment and immigration from Europe aided this economic revolution. Investment, primarily...
61: ...r. The Argentine military forced aged Radical President [[Hipo Yrigoyen]] from power in [[1930]] a...
63: ...nister of Labor. Elections carried him to the presidency in [[1946]]. He aggressively pursued policies...
65: ...�Estela Isabel Mart�z de Per, as Vice President. During this period, extremists on the left an... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
3: ... not realized it could alternately appear on one side of the Sun and then the other. It was called [[H...
16: ...tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17% stronger than the Moon...
21: ...rsa]], ''i.e.'' [[ridge|ridges]] - see [[List of ridges on Mercury]]
32: ...ays, a [[solar day]] (the length between two [[meridian]] [[Astronomical transit|transit]]s of the Sun...
37: ...llapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" align="right" width="280px" - 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 ...
11: ...hony and notation develop. Harmony, in consonant intervals of fourths, fifths, and octaves, begins to be se...
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... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Raphidae'''}}
15: ...uritius Dodo''' (''Raphus cucullatus'', called ''Didus ineptus'' by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]), mo...
27: ...uguese]] word ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The...
29: ...meat. No dodo bones have been found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.
33: ...urrounding the extinction date of the dodo. [[David Roberts]] states that "the extinction of the dodo... - Face (3212 bytes)
10: ...ird division of the fifth at the mental foramen, midway between the upper and lower margins of the bod...
11: ...lly corresponds to the interval between the bicuspid teeth.
13: ...orbicularis palpebrarum muscle. On everting the lids the delicate conjunctival membrane is seen, and ...
14: ...flamed it causes a "stye." Internally the two eyelids form a little recess called the internal canthus...
15: ...ny mammals. By gently drawing down the lower eyelid the lower punctum may be seen close to the carunc... - Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Ursidae]]}}
12: ...luropoda melanoleuca | author = [[Armand David|David]] | date = [[1869]]}}
14: ...Image:29-5-panda.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
15: ...w usually classified in the [[bear]] family, [[Ursidae]], that is native to central [[China]].
21: ...ing season usually takes place from mid-March to mid-May. During this time, up to two to five males c... - Thunder (1300 bytes)
1: ...ands rapidly, then contracts as it cools. The rapid expansion/contraction generates sound waves, maki...
3: ...ximately one kilometre distant for every 3 second interval (one mile for every 5 seconds).
13: *[[Raiden]]; [[Japanese mythology|Japanese]] - Pope Marcellus I (528 bytes)
1: ...e Marcellinus|Marcellinus]], after a considerable interval, most probably in May [[307]]; under [[Maxentius]... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...aced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorit...
6: ...are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[...
10: ...a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
14: ...he overlying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea f...
18: ...enerated from these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthquakes, dissipate q... - Computer (32773 bytes)
14: ...dern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...solve all mathematical problems. [[Alan Turing]] identified which problems could and could not be sol...
20: ...often have difficulty understanding the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot...
24: ...who performed the arts and this usage is still valid (although it is becoming quite rare in the [[Unit...
29: ...arch organizations could afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be r... - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
13: ...an_colleseum.jpg|thumb|Roman Colleseum. Photo provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
71: ...]/[[189 BC]] – Syrian war against the Seleucid dynasty
72: ...the ''[[cursus honorum]]'' offices; determined an interval of two years between offices
83: ...hine War]] against king [[Jughurta|Jughurta of Numidia]], eventually defeated and captured by [[Marius...
92: ... – [[First Mithridatic War]] against [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]] - Palermo (10618 bytes)
6: ... its fine natural harbour. Palermo is widely considered to be the most conquered city in the world, a...
10: ...ity of trade, culture and learning, with (it is said) more than 300 [[mosque]]s. The city was renowned...
12: ...Norman and [[Arab]] culture fostered a unique hybrid style of [[architecture]] as can be seen in the P...
14: ...y, Palermo grew in population from 30,000 in the mid-15th century to 135,000 on the eve of the plague ...
16: ... just another provincial city, the royal court residing in Naples. Palermo and its many palaces fell i...
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