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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...hur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
9: ...ms to be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
19: ...th Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy," which contains the passage "as...
41: ...y professional storytellers known as ''[[Jongleur|jongleurs]]''. The French medieval writer, [[Chré´©...
45: [[Image:KingArthurTombsite.jpg|thumb|right|250px|King Arthur's tombsite at [[G... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
12: ...is state of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school ...
14: ...ing. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted t...
18: ...ied in [[1912]], the same year as her father's project, the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts was cerem...
20: ...ssian Revolution of 1917|1917 Revolution]], Efron joined the [[White Army]], and Marina returned to M... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl V...
2: ...y|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Gr...
12: ... the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's band, '''Lady Ella''' (as...
14: ... she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
16: ...' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also reco... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...er soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at [[jazz]], [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], ...
6: ...Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Fr...
8: ...lf of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started ...
12: ...man", "Think", "Baby I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect",'' a cover of an [[Otis ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...in on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[196...
4: ...ng in the local [[choir]]. Joplin graduated from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]] an...
6: ... movement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blue...
8: ...lack of success of their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent succe... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ...lf portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...edominantly to [[Rock and roll|rock music]] and [[jazz]], to become one of the most highly respected ...
5: ...oice, which was especially prominent in her later albums.
7: ...ll (Song to a Seagull)]]'' (1968) and ''[[Clouds (album)|Clouds]]'' (1969) were archetypes of the nascent...
9: ...|Los Angeles]]) as well as containing her first major hit single, the environmental "[[Big Yellow Tax... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: '''Alanis Nadine Morissette''' (born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [[Canada|Canadi...
6: ...esentment. Since the extraordinary success of ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'', Morissette's popularity has...
10: Alanis Morissette was born on [[June 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[C...
12: ...want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."'' - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...e cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a photo by [[Robert Mapplethorpe...
2: ...heist]] father and a devout [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] mother, and these opposing infl...
4: ...am Shepard]]), a career path subsidised by rock [[journalism]], especially within the pages of ''[[Cr...
6: ...ceived in an early job in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the rock sta...
8: ...mith Group, punk's popularity grew and the second album ''[[Radio Ethiopia]]'' reflected this with a rawe... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
1: ...|frame|right|Lucinda Williams on the cover of her album ''Sweet Old World'']]
2: '''Lucinda Williams''' (born [[January 26]], [[1953]]) is an [[United States|Ameri...
6: ...s'', which consisted of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
10: ...t Old World'' (Chameleon, 1992), was a melancholy album dealing with themes of suicide and death. William...
14: ... though she appeared as a guest on other artists' albums and contributed to several tribute compilations ... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
1: ...l_Crow.jpg|thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
7: ...uited to perform as a backup singer for [[Michael Jackson]] on his ''Bad'' tour, where she was forced...
9: ...]] in [[1990]] and was ready to release her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like the slick ...
11: ...luding the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slow to garner attention until the one song C...
13: ...or Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best New Album. Other singles included "A Change Would Do You Go... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...n compared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ...l paper. The song she sang was called ''More than Just a Friend.'' By the time she reached high schoo...
10: ...gave Amos a 6 record contract. In 1988, her debut album ''[[Y Kant Tori Read]]'' was released and was pan...
13: ...eceived considerable critical attention. When the album was released in the UK, it went straight to #1. A... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... of arc miniature graded.jpg|right|thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] ...
2: ...d [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and...
4: Joan of Arc's campaigns were responsible for a revi...
7: ...] in the valley of the [[Meuse River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasan...
10: ... Catherine]] are behind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of A... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE...
5: ...f their home towns, Odette volunteered her family album which contained many useful depictions of the Cha...
11: Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Ca... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: '''Nicole (Mary) Kidman''' (born [[June 20]], [[1967]]) is an [[Academy Award]] winnin...
2: ...[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille). At the time, her fath...
8: ...nd then to the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production and theatre history. She ...
18: [[Image:Nicole_Kidman_Rumpbled.jpg|right|thumb]]
23: ... ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
1: [[Image:SophiaLoren55.jpg|thumb|250px|'''Sophia Loren''' in 1955.]]
13: ...e distinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a...
15: ... Sellers]], with whom she recorded a best-selling album of comedic songs and also reportedly from whom sh...
21: ... a femme fatale opposite [[Walter Matthau]] and [[Jack Lemmon]].
25: ...h of Peter Sellers]]'', as well as by [[Silvia Vrij]] in a [[1980]] film entitled ''[[Dirty Picture]]... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
1: [[Image:SoM1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trapp children...
3: Dame '''Julie Andrews, [[DBE]]''' (born [[October 1]], [[19...
5: She was born '''Julia Elizabeth Wells''' in [[Walton-on-Thames]], [...
7: ...[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andrews as [[Eliza Doolittle]] op...
9: ... and her co-stars won the [[Grammy Award for Best Album for Children]] for ''Mary Poppins''. She was nomi... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...United States Senator]] from [[New York]] since [[January 3]], [[2001]]. She was [[First Lady of the...
8: ... Alan Schechter, her political views turned left, joining the [[Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29|...
10: ...ising the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary|Judiciary Committee]] of the [[United States House ...
12: ...in the U.S. [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] as Associate Attorney General ...
25: Her lawyer and friend, James Blair, an experienced futures trader, directe... - List of flowers (2544 bytes)
1: ...ed images of some of these blooms on the [[flower album]] page. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
3: ...h]] wrote the 4th [[Brandenburg concerto]] in G major (though [[Thurston Dart]] mistakenly suggested ...
7: ...ian [[Keith Jarrett]] has even recorded an entire album of recorder music in which he himself plays recor...
11: ...fingerings. Two versions exist, one using the [[major scale]] and an older one using the [[lydian sca...
24: ...er, but it is decidedly a drawback to the great majority of players who attempt to play in some sembl...
29: ...; applying the term "baroque" to modern recorders just confuses the issue. Perhaps pseudo-baroque mig... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
1: [[Image:Harmonica-bluejay.jpg|thumb|A harmonica]]
17: ...rawn through a single hole, from one reed to an adjacent reed, usually a [[semi-tone]] sharper.
20: also in [[jazz]], [[classical music]], [[country music]], [[r...
26: ...lates, there is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out of the open back. Chromatic ha...
49: ...gned around the tonic (C major) and dominant (G major) chords, allowing a player to play these chords...
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