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- Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ... color, wide range, variety of character, and agility.
6: ... allow finger-holes to be drilled obliquely, with its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there ...
8: ...(giving it the name in some regions "curtall", as it was shortened significantly). The English name o...
10: ...entury, depicts the bassoon much as it appears in its current form, and a three-keyed bassoon has been...
14: ... the bottom of the instrument and folding over on itself; the wing joint <font color=red>(3)</font>, w... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ... is a stringed instrument of [[Russia]]n origin, with a characteristic [[triangle|triangular]] body an...
14: ...wo lower [[string]]s being [[tune]]d to the same pitch).
16: ...prima, and secunda balalaikas are ideally strung with gut (or, today, usually [[nylon]]) [[string]]s o...
18: ...izes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] to do so.
20: ... to the gigantic size of the contrabass' strings, it is not uncommon for the plectrum to be made of a ... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
1: ...an "American" is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of residence.
3: ...other infrastructure are generally the responsibility of the states.
5: ...ederal government playing a much larger role than it once did.
13: ...breviations|traditional abbreviations]], and [[capital]]s, are:
21: ...>Ark.<td>[[Arkansas]]<td>[[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] - Kansas (21369 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] |
21: DensityRank = 40<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 32.9/mi²; 12.7 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 34<sup>th</sup> | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
10: Capital = [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] |
12: Governor = [[Bill Richardson (politician)|Bill Richardson]] |
22: DensityRank = 45<sup>th</sup> | - Heel (1478 bytes)
1: ...[[hock (zool.)|hock]]. In [[plantigrade]] species it rests on the ground.
12: *[http://hhplace.org Information on shoes with '''heels'''] - Horse (38916 bytes)
15: ...efield "[[cavalry]]" units, sometimes keeping traditional names ([[Lord Strathcona's Horse]], etc.)
19: ...ay Gould]] cited rare instances of modern horses with true extra toes as evidence that minor genetic m...
21: ...rgo careful introductions to strange objects and situations.
23: ...es them out of the herd to form "bachelor bands" with other young stallions. Usually not until a stall...
25: ...d wants to stop and eat, the whole herd follows suit. - Ice skating (4786 bytes)
1: ...ly, without boots, tied to regular [[footwear]]). It is mainly done for [[recreation]] and as a [[spor...
3: ...d at indoor and outdoor skating tracks and areas with artificial cooling. The skating rink regarded a...
5: In some countries with a temperate climate, e.g. the [[Netherlands]], f...
8: ...n. Skating has been found to date back to 50 B.C. It was most common to skate where there are long, co...
10: ==How it works== - Italy (17022 bytes)
2: ...[[European Union]], and a member state of the [[United Nations]], [[NATO]] and the [[G8]] nations.
3: ...atican City]] are [[enclave]]s within Italian territory.
8: |+<big><big>'''Repubblica Italiana'''</big></big>
11: ...center width=130px| [[Image:Italian coa.png|110px|Italy: Coat of Arms]]
13: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Italy|In Detail]]) - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...s a colloquial synonym for [[traitor]] in the [[United States]], much like [[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling]...
6: ...w up in a well-to-do Connecticut family that had hit hard times by the time he became an adult. In [[1...
9: ...ilitary expedition by the colonists against the British.
10: ...ga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were not aware that a war was in progress...
12: ...of the Green Mountain Boys and the Connecticut militia. Upon discovering this, Arnold challenged Easto... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...C Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of [[Britain]], and his conquest of [[Gaul|Gallia Comata]] ...
4: ...lic. Caesar's friend [[Marcus Brutus]] conspired with others to assasinate Caesar in hopes of saving t...
6: ...aigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works of Julius Caesar|''Commentaries'' (''C...
9: ...ns]]'' [[Julius|Julia]]), which supposedly traced its ancestry to [[Julus]], the son of the [[Troy|Tro...
11: ...st men in Rome at the time and while he gained political clout, the Caesar family gained the wealth. - Foot (3755 bytes)
5: The structural quality of a foot varies from animal to animal. Many [[v...
7: ... on the same basic five-digit anatomy, in common with many other vertebrates. They are also the most ...
9: ...]. If footwear is ill-fitting or badly designed, it can cause both short-term ([[blister]]s, for exam...
11: ...s or boots when entering a home, while in the [[United States]] this is rare in most parts of the coun...
13: ...|rugby]], involve kicking a ball or other object with the foot. - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ission]], as well as the [[Tennessee Valley Authority|TVA]].
7: ...led them "appropriate responses to the critical situation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky Pe...
9: ...lated bubble.) It involved "pump priming" ([[deficit spending]]), dropping the [[gold standard]], effo...
11: ...wingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php ''Interview with John Hawkins''. Right Wing News.]</ref>
13: ... labor unions, European and African-American minorities (now called "ethnics"), some farm groups, and ... - Wombat (7860 bytes)
17: ... and [[root]]s, and dig extensive burrow systems with rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws. Alth...
19: ...ught about their extinction through hunting or habitat alteration.
21: ...e-target to any enemy who follows the wombat into its tunnel.
27: ... recent years has prevented successful breeding. (It takes three consecutive good seasons for a Southe...
29: ... more than a decade of captive breeding research with Common and Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats has prod... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...uneiform]] script may precede any other form of writing, and dates to no later than about [[3500 BCE]]
5: ...a [[language isolate]] in [[Linguistics]] because it belongs to no known language family, as compared,...
10: ... who was intimately tied to the city's religious rites.
12: ...sh]], [[Uruk]], [[Ur]], and [[Nippur]]. As these cities developed, they sought to assert primacy over ...
14: ... traditional list of the early dynasties, much of it probably mythical. The first name on the list wh... - Gecko (4899 bytes)
14: ...vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease.
15: ...species of geckos make their home inside human habitations.
18: ...oking. Some species can change color to blend in with their surroundings. However others can be bright...
19: ...emales capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.
20: This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. - Geckos (5083 bytes)
14: ...vertical surfaces and even cross indoor ceilings with ease.
15: ...species of geckos make their home inside human habitations.
18: ...oking. Some species can change color to blend in with their surroundings. However others can be bright...
19: ...emales capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.
20: This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
1: ...trends from immigrant communities such as the [[Brittany|Breton]]s and the [[Portugal|Portuguese]].
4: ...nd [[J�rriais]]. The monstrous black dog is traditionally said to haunt [[Bouley Bay]].]]
5: ...ority of the population, although it was the majority language in the [[19th century]]. Among those wh...
7: ...[Anglicisation]] of the toponymy increased apace with the migration of English people into the island ...
9: Since [[1900]], English has been permitted in debates in the States and has come to domin... - Monkey stick (1154 bytes)
1: ... a musical instrument -- for the city, see the capitalized [[Mendoza]].''
3: ...ith one of the many [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Italy|Italian]] buskers who were popular in [[London]] in ...
7: ...ined monkeys formerly used by [[busker]]s to solicit money from passers-by, a number of musicians have...
9: In Australia, this instrument constructed with beer-bottle tops is known as a "lagerphone". - Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (9097 bytes)
10: ... | taxon = '''Vombatidae'''}}<br/>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[Gilbert Thomas Burnett|Burnett]] | ...
13: * '''''Vombatus''''' {{Taxobox authority | author = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É....
14: ** '''''Vombatus ursinus''''' {{Taxobox authority parens | author = [[George Shaw|Shaw]] | date = ...
15: * '''''Lasiorhinus''''' {{Taxobox authority | author = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] | date = 18...
16: ...* '''''Lasiorhinus latifrons''''' {{Taxobox authority parens | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date =...
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