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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...s. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and th...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...]] whose work is considered part of the [[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose appa...
12: ...ers may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is obtaining socially prominent ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their pu...
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel)
27: *[[Sanditon]] (incomplete novel) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: ...e]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
12: ...nt household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Ar...
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993)
28: ==Plays== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
20: ... the largely failed role of women in the literary canon and the future of women in education and society. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
11: ...velace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
15: ...nd scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."
23: ... some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine...
25: ...ace occupies a politically sensitive space in the canon of historical figures in [[computer science]], an... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament ...
6: ...he first day of the week she, with [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and Mary the mother of [[James]], ([[G...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
12: ...church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designatio...
33: ...cal scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman Jesus rescue... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
12: ...re masculine in appearance. Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be...
16: ...great demand, he became overwhelmed and his head split into thousands of pieces. Fortunately, a [[Budd...
32: | width="150" | [[Simplified Chinese character|Simplified Chinese]]
70: ... frustrated that he attempted to burn down the temple. Kuan Yin put out the [[fire]] with her bare han...
72: ... flowers blossomed around her. This managed to completely surprise the head demon. The story says that... - Relic (11473 bytes)
15: ... in themselves no ethical meaning and no humane implications whatever. They are the keywords of a reli...
17: ...e righteous rage with which mobs of Christians toppled sculptures, and smashed classical bas-reliefs (...
19: ...loining of St [[Nicholas of Bari]] is another example. The [[Image of Edessa]] was reputed to render t...
26: ...rts (see the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Canon Law). Thus even the many relics that are enshrine...
28: ...o included is an item that the saint had, for example, a crucifix, book etc. Again, an item more impor... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...d to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing h...
8: ...nomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]],...
10: ...rceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would be heard - music ref...
14: ...mathematical proportions in sound - be it sung or played on instruments. The polyphonic organization o...
19: ...ch, ''hudba'' is instrumental music and only by implication vocal music. Some languages in West Africa... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
28: ...ly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term as president.
31: ... in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the op...
39: ...ore this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board of War and Ordinance... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ...]]s, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known, some of which i...
3: His first play was produced in [[447 BC]] and won a victory. A...
5: ...[[Aeschylus]], he was part of the Alexandrian ''[[Canon]]'', and [[Didymus Chalcenterus|Didymus]] wrote a... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
1: ...;χυλος''') was a [[playwright]] of [[ancient Greece]].
5: ...s, making ''The Persians'' his earliest surviving play.
7: ...(or more likely a [[Lammergeier]]), mistaking the playwright's bald crown for a stone, dropped a [[tor...
19: ...actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the [[Greek chorus]...
21: Aeschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of which remain extant: - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th centu...
3: ...re, after the close of the Messenian wars, the people were able to bestow their attention upon the art...
7: ... sensuousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most consider... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your b...
17: ...s/List_of_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_tel...
29: **[[Lists of people]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...e Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
13: | The Empire is permanently split into Eastern and Western halves, following the ...
32: ...urch in Rome breaks with the Church in Constantinople.
38: | Constantinople is occupied by crusaders; Latin empire formed. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
7: The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration....
9: ... is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural decl...
11: ...s lines in a repeatable fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has develop...
17: ...out 1240), the treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notatio...
19: ...t definitely identifiable scholar to accept and explain the mensural system was Johannes de Muris ([[J... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
5: ...n|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to a small self-contained [[fortress]], usuall...
9: ...available for building, the wood will have been replaced by stone to a higher or lower standard of sec...
15: ...well and have been restored to an impressively complete state.
37: ...olations (from the French word ''machicoulis'', implying a meaning of something like "neck-crusher") c...
48: ... point of view, although it made deliveries of supplies and building materials more cumbersome and exp... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ...ring [[reproduction]], DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ...ergy]]-generating [[organelle]]s known as [[chloroplast]]s and [[mitochondria]] also carry DNA, as do ...
10: PLEASE, PLEASE try to refrain from transforming this section...
12: :Wikipedia needs to be accurate, but it can be simple ''and'' accurate. Dumbing down something too mu...
14: This is what most people need, and that's why it has been inserted at the...
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