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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
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...
25: ... as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...nd [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometimes refer...
9: ...d political views; and English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Si...
11: ...nce in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities,...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[Uni...
18: ...rnowne, who was often referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her ficti...
5: ...dison's disease]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winch...
7: ...[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous...
9: Her novels were fairly well received when they were publ...
12: ...tedly because she did not know how men spoke when not in the presence of women. Some contemporary rea... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ll University]] in [[1955]]. Her novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fictio...
6: ...]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...ngth of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first A...
14: ==Novels==
16: *''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]'' (1973) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...n [[Pittsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [...
17: ...e supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work.
23: ...borative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brou...
29: ...ked Toklas, "What is the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the q...
34: ...to Paris in 1903 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increas... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie'...
9: ...rth Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the fo...
11: ...ious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], p...
13: ...closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between th...
15: ...ible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me yo... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ... [[1815]] - [[November 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
8: ... mother dominated her life, even after marriage; another claims she never knew either parent. One sour...
11: ...usta Ada, Countess of Lovelace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
13: She knew [[Mary Somerville]], noted researcher and scientific author of the [[19th...
15: ...pended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilities of the machine which Ba... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament...
6: ...esus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren...
8: ...ical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
12: ...sen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than the [[Second century | 2nd century]]...
14: ...her discourse with him, which shows [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] influences. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: [[Image:Daienin_Kannon.JPG|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japan]]
2: ... [[East Asia]]n [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]s. Commonly known as the '''Goddess of Mercy''', Kuan Yin is also...
4: ... more formally '''Kanzeon'''; the spelling '''Kwannon''', resulting from an obsolete system of romaniz...
6: ...ny distinctive characteristics and legends. Most notably, while Avalokitesvara can be depicted as eit...
18: A character known as Kuan Yin is also mentioned in the Book of [[... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ... [[Hinduism]]. In some [[religious denomination|denominations]] of Christianity, a '''relic''' is an o...
7: ... 13:20-21. "So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the...
11: ...ild a [[ship]] from. The [[Shroud of Turin]] is another relic whose authenticity is questionable. Th...
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics=...
14: ...regory of Tours]] Ernest Brehaut analyzed the Romano-Christian concepts that gave relics such a powerf... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
6: ...usic as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may...
8: ...drivium]] - [[arithmetic]]s, [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was spl...
17: ...ersus improvised forms (''kantun''), European and nonMapuche music (''kantun winka''), ceremonial song...
19: ...n vocal music. Some languages in West Africa have no term for music but the speakers do have the conce...
21: ...s of "musicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song,... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
28: Adams had none of the qualities of popular leadership of his s...
31: ..., being without representation in parliament, had not assented to it.
35: ...moting the union of the colonies, he seconded the nomination of [[George Washington]] as commander-in-...
46: ...he negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge or concurrence; and ultimately to govern yo...
48: ... secure a favorable treaty, which was signed on [[November 30]], [[1782]]. Before these negotiations b... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ...tten 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known, some of which include ''Adrastus'', ''Linus'',...
3: ... birth, and the men of [[Athen]]s were loath to honor any but their own fellow-citizens.
5: ...Aeschylus]], he was part of the Alexandrian ''[[Canon]]'', and [[Didymus Chalcenterus|Didymus]] wrote ... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
9: ...s death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown. He chose to commemorate his military achievem...
21: Aeschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of whic...
26: **''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]''
30: ... BC|fourth-century]] playwright. Its language in no way resembles that of Aeschylus, and its hostilit...
32: In early [[1990]]s fragments of another Aeschylus play, which had been mentioned in a... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...ne lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th cent... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
3: ...tings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative articles.
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26: *Not included here:
49: **[[List of anonymously published works]]
50: **[[List of books by award or notoriety]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Os...
27: ...ypt. In the following 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 ... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...port. The notation system is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with uni...
11: ...fifths, and octaves, begins to be seen. Rhythmic notation allows for complex interactions between mul...
14: ... music has survived, and since [[musical notation|notation]] was a relatively late development, recons...
16: === Theory and notation ===
17: ... history of European music. Most of the surviving notated music of the 13th century uses the rhythmic ... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...ation''' is the military aspect of [[Medieval technology]] that covers the development of [[fortificat...
9: ...ature of the terrain and the perceived threat. In northern [[Europe]], early in the period they are li...
13: ... clear view of what was happening outside and an unobstructed field of shot. An internal pomoeriun ga...
15: ...an army as they were not designed for resisting canon shot. They might have been rebuilt as at [[Berwi...
25: ...tural mounds, as artificial ones were not strong enough to support stone towers. Larger mottes had tow... - DNA (29095 bytes)
5: ...leus]]. The [[energy]]-generating [[organelle]]s known as [[chloroplast]]s and [[mitochondria]] also c...
10: ... has been assumed from the beginning that this is not necessarily a very accurate description, and tha...
12: ...rate. Dumbing down something too much (which I'm not saying is happening here) is also to be avoided....
25: ...nction, or a function [[junk DNA|we do not (yet) know]];
28: ...atter: A+T is not the same as T+A, just as C+G is not the same as G+C;
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