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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t...
54: ...ains an area of accelerated growth, attracting mainly the richer sector of the population, whereas nei... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ... [[Greenland]] (long before it had been named Greenland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset...
4: ... discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine d...
6: ...conducive to travel, each settlement would send a band of men to hunt in [[Disko Bay]] for food and othe...
8: ... title was that of [[paramount chieftain]] of Greenland and there Erik was both greatly respected and ...
12: ...eif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invited his father on th... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
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...
38: ...he GHB is widely used by both soloists and [[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in ... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
29: - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
16: ...isa. Aung remained in Burma, and never met her husband again. He died in March [[1999]]. She remains sep...
23: ...ta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]] have also been pub... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
25: ...urt on [[Commerce Clause]] grounds. That victory only overturned state segregation laws as applied to ...
45: In [[1999]], Parks's lawyer sued [[hip hop]] band [[OutKast]] for using her name in the song ''[[Ro... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ... was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started sin...
8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzg...
12: ...]] years, [[Ella Abraca Jobim]]. With Ellington's band, '''Lady Ella''' (as she was now called by other ...
14: ...". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basi...
20: ...t the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
10: ...songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simon & Garfunkel]] ("[[B...
21: ...the life of gospel legend [[Mahalia Jackson]]) mainly because of her phobia of flying. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
26: ..., ''[[Lady Sings the Blues]]''. In [[1987]] [[U2 (band)|U2]] released "[[Angel of Harlem]]", a tribute t...
36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...sed four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]...
8: ...t [[hippie]] community in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Recor...
10: The band's big break came with their performance at the [[...
14: ...ly her best backing group, The [[Full Tilt Boogie Band]]. The result was the (posthumously released) ''...
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
17: ...s completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius, [[Wayne Shorter]] and [[Herb...
19: ...ding [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again patchy and the re... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...was the only asset. That same year, she made her only film appearance, starring in a two-reeler based ...
11: ...e of particular interest because the accompanying band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie ...
17: ...dence, Hammond never recanted his story. It was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] b...
21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
6: ...iend and former lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side o...
13: ...)|Wave]]'' was less successful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
15: ... wouldn't have to change her name.) She recorded only the critically panned album ''[[Dream Of Life]]'...
17: ...ted with [[Michael Stipe]] on a song on [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]'s ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi.'' She rele... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
8: ...rnia]], where -- performing both backed by a rock band and in acoustic settings -- she developed a follo... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
10: ...en]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals ...
18: ...er Learning]] as well as a cover of the [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M]] song "Losing My Religion".
27: ...Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "Pet" headed by lead singer Lisa Papineau. Their ...
30: ...." The accompanying tour, Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tou...
36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl...
47: ...imprisonment, Joan of Arc wore clothing more commonly worn by men. Her motive is given in her own word... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
61: ...featuring such artists as [[Strength Through Joy (band)|Strength Through Joy]], [[Death In June]], and [... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...tar. She married [[Mickey Rooney]] when she was only 19 years old in 1941, then divorced in 1943, to ...
57: * [[The Band Wagon]] (1953) (cameo) - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ... have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flowers and seeds in...
44: The plant is probably a total loss unless tufted.
132: There is a [[queercore]] musical band called [[Pansy Division]], drawing on the fact th... - Tibia (10700 bytes)
1: ...-joint, contracted in the lower third, and again enlarged but to a lesser extent below. In the male, i...
7: ...al surfaces, for the attachment of the iliotibial band. Just below this a part of the Extensor digitorum...
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