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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ...er.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Grea...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
16: ...lowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air ...
23: ...ld's Martial Music of Caledonia, written by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were fi... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...r Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|Americ...
5: ... called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human righ...
9: ...tions outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Frankl... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
9: ...', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...[[Third International]]'' although in fact it was nothing of the sort. The CP(BSTI) was opposed to par...
13: ...B proposed that Sylvia hand over the Workers Dreadnought to the party rather than retain it as a perso...
15: ...meetings of the International in [[Russia]] and [[Amsterdam]] and also meetings of the Italian Socialist Part...
17: ...on of [[Ethiopia]] by renaming the ''Workers Dreadnought'' as ''[[The New Times and Ethiopia News]]'' ... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
11: ...came clear she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach adv...
13: ... following year, only eighteen years old, she was nominated for the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympi...
23: ...hought women should not compete in sports – not an unusual opinion at the time. However, his att...
27: ....71 m in a specially arranged competition in Amsterdam. Then, she tied the 100 m world record, but ...
29: ... were not easy, and it got more difficult to get enough food, especially for an athlete in training. D... - Tapestry (2919 bytes)
10: ...uld transport the tapestry from one residence to another. In [[church]]es, it could be displayed on sp...
12: ==Iconography==
13: The iconography of most Western tapestries goes back to wri...
19: Tapestry has been known in [[Europe]] since the early fourteenth centur...
21: ...Arras'' is still used to refer to a rich tapestry no matter where it was woven. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
11: *[[Benin]] - [[Porto Novo]], [[Cotonou]]
40: *[[Mauritania]] - [[Nouakchott]]
80: * [[Cambodia]] (Kampuchea) - [[Phnom Penh]]
98: * [[Lebanon]] (Lubnan) - [[Beirut]]
105: * [[North Korea]] - [[Pyongyang]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
37: <tr><td>[[Beirut]] <td>[[Lebanon]]
53: <tr><td>[[Buenos Aires]] <td>[[Argentina]]
65: <tr><td>[[Cotonou]] <td>[[Benin]] (de facto)
87: <tr><td>[[Hanoi]] <td>[[Vietnam]] - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There are 10 mo...
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of government |
17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
49: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> [[Low Saxon language|Low Saxon]...
55: ...[[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]]. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Richard Codey]] (acting)|
13: OfficialLang = ''None defined'' |
39: ...]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of southwestern New ...
41: ...se of the unpopularity of the Dutch colonial governor, [[Peter Stuyvesant]]. The newly taken lands wer...
43: ... large tract of land in North America henceforth known as New Jersey. - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
1: ...] religious separatists who sailed from Europe to North America in the early [[17th century]], in sear...
3: ...[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a poor economy and concern over the Dutch influence on their c...
5: ...[[United States|Americas]]. These people became known as the [[Pilgrims|Pilgrim Fathers]].
8: Another way of explaining the atmosphere in the Nethe...
10: ... [[Armada]] of [[1588]] but this was not the only nor last threat from that quarter (there were other ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
24: *[[1626]]-[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York ...
63: ...mes II of England|James II]] reduces colonial autonomy - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
8: ...s (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few ...
10: ... the world we see is but an imperfect copy. Such knowledge has ethical as well as scientific importanc...
12: ...t, unpublished texts. These were probably lecture notes or texts used by his students, and were almost...
14: ...ractically comprise an [[encyclopedia]] of Greek knowledge.
21: ...or a plain and unadorned (though not easy) style; not one is a dialogue. Some lost works of Aristotle ... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
1: ...metronome in motion.jpg|A mechanical wind-up metronome in motion|right|frame]]
2: A '''metronome''' is a device that produces a regular [[pulse ...
4: ...ces lead some modern scholars to suspect his metronome was quite inaccurate.
6: ... not require strict time (see [[rubato]]), a metronome is used to give an indication of the general te...
8: ...ack and forth in tempo; mechanics inside the metronome produce a clicking sound on each swing of the r... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
2: ...ially will become extinct, without gaining public notice.
8: ...he population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on.
10: The best-known worldwide conservation status listing is the [[...
15: .../font>: captive individuals survive, but there is no free-living, natural population. Examples: [[Drom...
19: ...hreat to the survival of the species. Examples: [[Nootka Cypress]], [[Llama]] - Airline (29546 bytes)
11: ... that are usually decades apart. This pattern has not been completed for all airlines in all regions.
13: ...isure passenger demand, all influenced by macroeconomic activity in the markets under study. These pat...
15: ...d through the 1980's and 1990's. Growth rates are not consistent in all regions, but certainly areas w...
17: ...d demand. Since 1980, the industry as a whole has not even earned back the cost of capital during the ...
19: ...ater consolidation, in order to achieve higher economies of scale and greater efficiencies. - Canal (2513 bytes)
4: ...areas and brought them in touch with the world-economy. The [[Erie canal]] for instance, opened up a c...
6: ...th century and canalization made the village of [[Amsterdam]] a port. Canals are so deeply identified with [[...
11: Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as [[wayleave]]s for...
23: * [[Amsterdam]]
27: * [[Shubie Canal]] - [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]] - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
18: ...s called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
20: ...rs dispute this claim arguing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In the buil...
26: ...lands]], arrived in New York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Rooseve... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...ncestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to [[West Africa|West]] and [[sub-Saharan Afric...
3: ==Nomenclature==
6: ...literal meaning, the usual usage of the term does not include [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semite...
10: ...r, 17.6 percent of African Americans lived in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while onl...
15: ...on slaves in the [[Southern United States]], and another 500,000 African Americans lived free across t... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...eenth century. His place and date of birth are unknown, but [[September 12]], [[1570]] in England seem...
3: ... the return voyage Hudson discovered what is now known as [[Jan Mayen Island]] before reaching home in...
5: ...hich convinced the Moscovy Company that there was no point funding further voyages.
7: ...later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...h]], where Hudson was arrested for sailing under another country's flag. This was part of the [[Naviga... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
14: ...rgh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]...
21: ...Italy]] singing "Non ho l'etą¦±uot; (I'm not old enough).
26: *[[1970]] - In [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]], [[Dana (singer)|Dana]] wins t...
27: ... the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] announces a [[United States]] [[boycott]] of the [[198...
48: *[[1901]] - [[Karl Arnold]], politician, (d. [[1958]])
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