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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...reed]]s. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of...
6: ...stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...ome popular amongst many pipers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a ...
23: ...eather bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ...
25: ...ti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[... - Yolanda of Flanders (2422 bytes)
1: ...'Yolanda of Flanders''' (d. [[1219]]) ruled the [[Latin Empire]] in [[Constantinople]] for her husband...
3: ...tes, and was able to make peace with [[Theodore I Lascaris]] of the [[Empire of Nicaea]], who married ...
7: Yolanda also held [[Namur]], which she inherited from ...
10: ...Namur, who declined the offer of the crown of the Latin Empire
11: * [[Robert of Courtenay]] (d. 1228), Latin Emperor - Rose (15436 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}} - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
1: ...ith a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.
3: ... plates: similar sheets have been discovered in [[Bulgaria]]. Technically, these are all [[inscription]]s ra...
6: ...he plural, but, by an old convention, doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plura...
8: ...of [[scroll (parchment)|scroll]]s (''volumen'' in Latin) or [[book]]s (''[[codex]], codices''). Manus...
10: ...making a single copy from an original that was declaimed aloud. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
1: {{language|name=Greek|nativename=<i><font lang="el">Ελληνικ...
2: |familycolor=lawngreen
3: ...slav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
7: [[Greek languages|Greek]]<br>
13: .../}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with a documented history of some 3,000 y... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ... [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]], on the south by [[...
9: ...s'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'), in [[Greek]] "mesogeios".
11: ...he German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white se...
13: Presently, "The Med" is a common English language contraction for the Mediterranean Sea and i...
17: ...red a part of the Mediterranean Sea, whereas the Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...the south by the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Black Sea]], and to the east by the [[Ural Mountains]...
6: ...roughly 705,500,000: about 11% of the world's population.
11: ...ece and by [[500 BC]] its meaning was extended to lands to the north.
13: ...an word ''asu'', which means "sunrise" and is the land to the east from a [[Mesopotamian]] perspective...
18: ...herlands]] and the [[United Kingdom]] in building large colonial empires with vast holdings in [[Afric... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ... [[List of countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nat...
3: ...ountry]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
10: *[[Angola]] - [[Luanda]]
25: *[[Equatorial Guinea]] - [[Malabo]]
38: *[[Malawi]] - [[Lilongwe]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
4: *[[List of capitals and larger cities by country]]
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
18: <tr><td>[[Andorra la Vella]] <td>[[Andorra]]
31: ...[Bandar Seri Begawan]] <td>[[Brunei|Brunei Darussalam]]
32: <tr><td>[[Bangkok]] <td>[[Thailand]] - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
7: image_flag = Flag of Turkey.svg |
10: capital = [[Ankara]] |latd=52|latm=31|latNS=N|longd=13|longm=24|longEW=E|
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57|longEW=E|
12: official_languages = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]| - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...estern world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich hi...
2: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
6: ...dth="130px"| [[Image:Greece flag large.png|125px|Flag of Greece]] || align=center width=130px | [[Imag...
8: ...gn=center width=130 | ([[Flag of Greece|National Flag]]) || align=center width=130px |
11: ...#913;ΝΑΤΟΣ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)'' - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ...ver. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the [[Black Sea]] and the eastern and southern [[Carpathian...
9: image_flag = Romania flag large.png |
14: official_languages = [[Romanian language|Romanian]] |
17: latd=44|latm=25|latNS=N|longd=26|longm=06|longEW=E|
18: largest_city = [[Bucharest]] | - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...ents on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]],...
4: ...nt from later Greek cultures that they should be classed separately.
6: ...e Great]] in [[323 BC]]. The following period is classed [[History of Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]]...
10: ...Europe and again during various [[Classicism|neo-Classical]] revivals in [[18th century|18th]] and [[1...
14: ...g|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]] - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of st...
6: ...e "base time" to which all other time zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for ...
8: ...n the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year ...
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...rom UTC, then the date at the location is one day later or earlier. Some examples: - String instrument (8163 bytes)
1: ...ornbostel-Sachs]] scheme of [[musical instrument classification]], used in [[organology]], they are ca...
7: ...nts like the [[cello]] and [[rebec]] are usually played by drawing a [[bow (music)|bow]] across the st...
8: ...ed ([[Jimmy Page]] of [[Led Zeppelin]] sometimes played the [[electric guitar]] this way, for example)...
10: ...uck blows defines this instrument family; the proclamation that the piano is a percussion instrument h...
12: ...ery inefficient method of sound production, thus clavichords have a very soft tone. The maneuver can ... - Flag (13245 bytes)
1: ...laware_flag.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Delaware State Flag]]
3: ...tached, though many flags are recognisable if displayed in other forms.
5: ...xillology]], from the Latin ''vexillum'' meaning flag or [[banner]].
9: ...Roman Empire]]'s ''vexillum'' was the first true flag.
11: During the [[Middle Ages]], flags were used mainly during battles to identify ind... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...f; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
7: ...ne eagle.JPG|280px]]<br/><small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entra...
27: ...wing decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: | [[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of mos...
35: ... Most of Asia Minor is lost. The same year, the last Byzantine outposts in Italy are conquered by th... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: [[Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and ...
3: ...ionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]...
5: ... are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, suc...
13: ...ee [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: ...h century from materials that would have been available to da Vinci. The design was deemed flightworth... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Roman...
6: ...ettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the rise of [[National Socialism]]...
8: ...Balkan crisis as a precept for a general war. Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as...
11: ...03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]]
16: ...ack, in the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various [[Europe]]... - World War II (58065 bytes)
2: ... Asia and [[1 September]] [[1939]], in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the wor...
4: ... German [[Polish September Campaign|invasion of Poland]] on [[1 September]] [[1939]], the Japanese inv...
6: ...rred across the [[Second Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic Ocean]], in [[European Theatre of World War I...
10: ...e largely aligned as [[NATO]], and Eastern Europe largely as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which were...
18: ...to defend one another against aggression. This replaced the German-Japanese [[Anti-Comintern Pact]] of...
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