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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ... very mellow [[oboe]]-like sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighte...
23: ...er and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire.
25: ...or "[[Scots Wha Hae]]", "Hey Tutti Taiti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Rob...
27: ... of bagpipes has become a common tradition for military funerals and memorials in the [[anglophone]] w... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
7: ...]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...ten (chopped) 2.jpg|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
2: ...in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: ...[[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to ...
5: ...lative seclusion, and began to suffer ill-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[Addis...
7: ...ited for their perfection of form, while modern critics continue to unearth new perspectives on Austen... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...er novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story de...
6: ...e Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...rly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American ...
10: ...Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
26: *''[[Recitatif]]'' (1983) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury gro...
7: ...stently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among othe...
9: ...els and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was sel...
11: ...e dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...f life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, pres... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...mber 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
6: ... England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...en after marriage; another claims she never knew either parent. One source tells that Annabella was fo...
11: ...m Park, at [[Ockham, Surrey]]. Her full name and title for most of her married life was '''The Right H...
15: ...cientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent." - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...us]]. She is also a [[Roman Catholic]] [[saint]] with a [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] of [[July 22]...
6: ...hn 20:1|1]], [[John 20:2|2]]), (gaining her the epithet "apostle to the apostles") and again immediate...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
11: ...e, in a dramatic 19th-century popular image of penitence painted by [[Ary Scheffer]].]] - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
2: ... by [[China|Chinese]] [[Taoists]] as an [[immortality|Immortal]]. The name Kuan Yin is short for '''K...
6: ...Yin is usually depicted as a woman, whereas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a...
10: Along with Buddhism, Kuan Yin's veneration was introduced i...
12: ...n Yin is most often represented as a beautiful, white-robed woman, a depiction which derives from the ...
16: ...eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the unique gift to see everywher... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ... especially a piece of the [[body]] or a personal item of a [[saint]]. A [[shrine]] that houses a rel...
7: ...ning how Paul's handkerchiefs were imbued by God with healing power (19:11-12).
11: ...Shroud of Turin]] is another relic whose authenticity is questionable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coul...
14: ...f ''"sanctus"'' and ''"virtus"'', the first with its familiar meaning of "sacred" or "holy", and the ...
15: ...d by spirits, acquired by the faithful, and transmitted to objects." - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ... is as difficult as defining [[art]] or anything. It is a problem that has been tackled at various tim...
4: ...;χνη)) by way of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek w...
6: ...anguage (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
8: ...my]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]], [...
10: ...nd the earth) were perceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ... Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
24: ... out, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ... ''Cycnus'', ''Eumenides'', ''Philoctetes'', ''Pirithous'', ''Theseus'', and ''?dipus''.
3: ...]]s were loath to honor any but their own fellow-citizens.
5: ...aving a lucid style, but with tendencies to obscurity. Athenaeus also claimed that [[Euripides]] took... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
5: ...C]]; it is possible that ''The Suppliants'' was written after this, making ''The Persians'' his earlie...
7: ...n his head (though some accounts differ, claiming it was a stone dropped by an [[eagle]] or [[vulture]...
9: ...e to commemorate his military achievements only. It read:
12: ...avery, and so will the longhaired Mede who learnt it well".
19: ...invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however. - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th centu...
7: ...suousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most considerable... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quic...
7: ...vely, instead of copying the link, you could drag it into your bookmarks toolbar, allowing the link to...
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your browser
17: ...es/List_of_et|9,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_hospitals|10,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_mis|11,]] [[S...
28: ...t of subnational entities|Lists of subnational entities]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
13: | The Empire is permanently split into Eastern and Western halves, following the de...
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
24: ...Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy.
29: ...emaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...beginning of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
7: ... general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
9: ...m cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most co...
17: .... The line, once it had its mode, would remain in it until another ligature indicated a change. A Ger...
18: [[Image:Lute_guitar.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Lute Guitar. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...are]], and in turn were modified to suit new [[military tactics|tactics]], [[weapon]]s and [[siege]] t...
5: ...n]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''castra'', a military camp, in turn the plural of ''castrum'' or wat...
8: ==== City [[wall]]s ====
9: ...ed by stone to a higher or lower standard of security. This would have been the pattern of events in t...
13: ...ccess to the rear of the [[curtain wall]] to facilitate movement of the [[garrison]] to a point of nee... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ..., DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ...g [[organelle]]s known as [[chloroplast]]s and [[mitochondria]] also carry DNA, as do many [[virus]]es...
8: ...lar desired shape, what DNA sequence will produce it? What are all the functions of the DNA? The build...
10: ...necessarily a very accurate description, and that it's only meant as a generic overview.
12: :Wikipedia needs to be accurate, but it can be simple ''and'' accurate. Dumbing down som...
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