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  1. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    1: ...er.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
    3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
    16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
    20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
    33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
  2. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    11: ...Martenszen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. ...
    13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
    37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra...
  3. Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
    15: ...meetings of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Part...
  4. Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
    13: ...ot a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen years old, she was nominated for the [[...
    25: ...usband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her son's birth.
    27: ....71 m in a specially arranged competition in Amsterdam. Then, she tied the 100 m world record, but ...
    31: ...ple's minds, and the Blankers family, living in [[Amsterdam]] was happy to make it through the war in good he...
    39: ...in 11.9, easily beating her opponents [[Dorothy Manley]] and [[Shirley Strickland]], who take second a...
  5. Tapestry (2919 bytes)
    7: The term is commonly (though incorrectly) applied to embroidered item...
    24: ...tant producers of tapestries, and [[Delft]] and [[Amsterdam]] became the most important tapestry cities.
  6. List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
    141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
    152: * [[Netherlands]] - [[Amsterdam]]
    191: *[[Greenland]] - [[Nuuk]] (Denmark)
    222: * [[Falkland Islands]] - [[Port Stanley]] (United Kingdom)
  7. List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
    17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
    90: <tr><td>[[Helsinki]] <td>[[Finland]]
  8. Netherlands (35958 bytes)
    10: image_coat = Nl-arms.gif |
    15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of government |
    17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
    25: ...://www.cbs.nl/nl/cijfers/bevolkingsteller/popclocknl.asp] |
    47: cctld= [[.nl]] |
  9. New Jersey (35646 bytes)
    39: ...ork|New York State]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of southw...
    107: ...emical manufacturing. Although the state is certainly not defined by these activities, their existence...
    112: ...rcentages of immigrants in the country (trailing only [[California]] and [[New York]] and just ahead o...
    126: ...populated state in the nation, and the first and only state that has had every one of its 21 counties ...
    145: ...inatra]] was born [[December 12]], [[1915]], the only child of working-class Italian-American immigran...
  10. Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
    3: ...up left their home in [[Scrooby]] and sailed to [[Amsterdam]] to escape religious persecution at the hands of...
    10: ...ued into the reign of [[James I of England]], if only in the minds of the English, as a conditioned re...
    20: ...ty percent of their population. This sickness mainly happened due to little food and poor shelter fro...
    26: Pilgrims are commonly portrayed as wearing black and white clothing. ...
  11. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    24: *[[1626]]-[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York ...
  12. Aristotle (37648 bytes)
    8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
    10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
    12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
    23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra...
    45: [[Plutarch]] wrote that Aristotle not only imparted to Alexander a knowledge of ethics and ...
  13. Metronome (3057 bytes)
    4: ...was invented by [[Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel]] in [[Amsterdam]] in [[1812]]. [[Johann Maelzel|Johann M䬺el]] c...
    26: ...p://www.metronomeonline.com/ http://www.metronomeonline.com], a metronome for [[Macromedia]] [[Flash P...
  14. Endangered species (12553 bytes)
    2: ...s from development, etc.) to prevent extinction. Only a few of the many truly endangered species actua...
    112: * [[Albatross|Amsterdam Albatross]] (''Diomedea amsterdamensis'')
  15. Airline (29546 bytes)
    15: ...ates are not consistent in all regions, but certainly areas where deregulation provided more competiti...
    26: ...achusetts|Boston]] to [[London]]. Pan Am was the only U.S. airline to go international before the 1940...
    34: ...try began with [[Lufthansa]] in [[1926]], which, unlike other airlines at the time, became a major inv...
    36: ...orted two english passengers from [[Schiphol]], [[Amsterdam]] to [[London]] in [[1920]]. Since the [[Netherla...
    54: ...acity offerings, often swamping the new startup. Only [[America West Airlines]] Airline has remained a...
  16. Canal (2513 bytes)
    4: .... In Europe and then in the young United States, inland canals preceded the development of [[railroad]...
    6: ...th century and canalization made the village of [[Amsterdam]] a port. Canals are so deeply identified with [[...
    23: * [[Amsterdam]]
  17. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    18: ...the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was...
    26: ...lands]], arrived in New York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Rooseve...
    30: ...other very old American family. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mothe...
    36: ...t firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, dealing mainly with corporate law. Meanwhile he had become enga...
    46: ...vy]], [[Josephus Daniels]], had been appointed mainly for political reasons and was widely considered ...
  18. African American (19830 bytes)
    6: ...frican American'' as originally coined refers to only those descended from a relative handful of black...
    10: ...Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 percent lived in the western states. Almost ...
    33: ...lar English]] (AAVE) is a dialect of English commonly spoken by African Americans.
    43: ...fier&mdash;a term they themselves had repudiated only two decades earlier&mdash;a term often associate...
    56: ..., therefore, subject to being barred from whites-only railway carriages.
  19. Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
    3: ... on the 17th of July. At this point the ship was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was cle...
    7: ...later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
    11: ...n managing to turn around the southern tip of Greenland and continue west.
    21: ...graphy at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']
  20. March 21 (10586 bytes)
    11: *[[1871]] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and exp...
    26: *[[1970]] - In [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]], [[Dana (singer)|Dana]] wins t...
    131: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/21 Today in History: March 21]

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