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- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7...
83: ...ervice with the National Security Council. On the plane trip over, she related comments critical of Pu... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she re...
4: ...ues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [[Southern O...
6: ... split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian p...
53: :''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' ([[1994]])
76: :''[[Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut]]'' ([[1995]]) - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensat...
7: ...d a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...been orphaned at an early age, and raised by a couple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a res...
11: ...mage:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Bombarde (846 bytes)
1: ...etween the lips. Typically pitched in B flat, it plays a diatonic scale over two octaves.
5: ...yer recovers while the other instruments play the echo. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...the other hand the shape and size of the recorder player's mouth cavity has a discernable effect on th...
3: ... by leather flanges: one instrument was voiced to play softly, the other loudly. [[Vivaldi]] wrote thr...
5: ...ther instruments, it requires talent and study to play it at an advanced level.
7: ...ntire album of recorder music in which he himself plays recorders.
11: ...e note. This note is either absent or can only be played by covering the end of the instrument, typica... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of the instrument.
4: ...ed ''Horn'' ([[German language|Gr.]]), ''corno'' (plural ''corni'') ([[Italian language|It.]]), ''cor'...
6: ... its characteristic "mellow" tone. The typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the writt...
12: ...cross his arm so that only one hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed....
14: ...nstrument. The [[Mozart Horn Concerti]], for example, were written for this type of horn, called the ... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: ...lus a [[pedalboard]]. Three, four or five manuals plus pedals is not uncommon for a larger instrument.
11: ...If you update the text of the heading in any way, please update the link too.-->
15: ...pularity at particular times and places, for example the [[baroque organ]], the [[English romantic or...
17: ...]], whose construction started in 1969 and was completed in 1979, is a baroque style organ.
29: ...of Humility'', Siena 1433, the angel on the right plays a ''portatif'' with a hand-pumped bellows]] - Utah (29154 bytes)
68: Song = ''[[Utah, This is the Place]]'' |
89: ... trappers—including [[Jim Bridger]]—explored some regions of Utah in the early 1800s. The ...
92: ...gnated the capital. In [[1856]], Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital.
96: ...edition" to quell the supposed rebellion and to replace Brigham Young as territorial governor with [[A...
100: ... the government's advance. Although wagons and supplies were burned, eventually the troops arrived and... - Tornado (14220 bytes)
8: ...weather radar]] screens, a characteristic "[[hook echo]]" marks the area where tornadoes are likely to e...
10: Exactly how tornadoes form is complex and not fully understood. When thunderstorms de...
21: ...significant damage when hitting land, and kill people. [http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/] [http://...
29: ...inois]], and southern [[Indiana]], killing 695 people. More than six tornadoes in one day is considere...
32: ...can be derived directly with high resolution [[Doppler radar]] wind speed data, or [[empirical]]ly der... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
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21: ...n their cousins in cooler pelagic waters. For example a survey of animals in the [[Moray Firth]] in [[...
26: ...8.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A wild Bottlenose Dolphin playing in the wake of a boat in Florida.]]
40: ...en bottom dwelling species. Sometimes they will employ "fish wacking" whereby a fish is stunned (and s... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
6: ...nic]] and [[Norse mythology]]. Tyr was however supplanted by [[Odin]] as the supreme god among the [[G...
13: Zeus played a huge role in the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] O...
15: The various titles applied to Zeus emphasized different aspects of his wi...
17: ... all the Hellenes') to whom [[Aeacus]]' famous temple on [[Aegina]] was dedicated.
25: ...tance, could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain mo... - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
1: ...which was used for spectator sports, games and displays.
92: ... the audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ideal for mus...
94: ... particular rock formation naturally amplifies or echoes sound, making it ideal for musical and theatric...
96: ...d Bowl]]. Notable natural amphitheatres include [[Echo Rock]], [[New Mexico]], [[Cedar Breaks National M...
109: ...m/home.html Rome: Colosseum at LacusCurtius] with Platner article - Quran (41479 bytes)
14: ...'Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they wer...
16: ...r. Partly in response to the religious need to explain the Qur'an to poorer speakers, [[Arabic gramma...
18: ...that when the book is published, it must never simply be entitled "The Qur'an." The title must always...
26: ...e story of Adam) in the Qur'an. Muslim scholars explain these repetitions as emphasizing and pointing ...
38: or, to give a less loose example, the whole of surat [[al-Fil]]: - Baleen whale (4213 bytes)
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16: ...oothed whale]]s is that baleen whales have baleen plates instead of teeth in the upper jaw, which enab...
30: ... enormous mass, baleen whales are able to leap completely out of the water. Known for their acrobacy a... - Woodpecker (14469 bytes)
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19: ...y to their rivals, and a method of [[Echolocation|echo-locating]] [[larva|grub]]s under the bark of the ...
68: * [[Plain-breasted Piculet]], ''Picumnus castelnau'' - Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
3: ...y building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely intact and which has been in continuous use ...
9: ...yed by fire in AD [[80]], and the Pantheon was completely rebuilt in about AD [[125]], during the reig...
11: ...ure. He seems to have intended the Pantheon, a temple to all the gods, to be a sort of [[ecumenism|ecu...
26: ...ta Maria del Fiore|Duomo]] of [[Florence]] was completed in [[1436]].
30: ...h appears to come from the way the concrete was applied in very small amounts and then was tamped down... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: ...he [[5th century]] until the fall of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]]. (The Roman Empire during this per...
3: ...an culture. It can also be used for the art of peoples of the former Byzantine Empire under the rule o...
7: ...anism|humanist]] ethic of Ancient Greek art was replaced by a [[Christian]] ethic. If the purpose of c...
11: In place of the nude, the figures of God the Father, Je...
15: ...f Byzantine high relief carving in ivory, which replaced the free-standing statues of the classical wo... - Modem (21628 bytes)
3: ...elephone line]]s of Plain Old Telephone System ([[Plain old telephone service|POTS]]), and once receiv...
7: ''[[Wavelength division multiplexing|Optical modem]]s'' transmit data over [[opti...
16: ...[[Hayes Communications]]. The Smartmodem was a simple 300 bit/s modem using the Bell 103 signaling sta...
18: ...20041015_175456_1.jpg|thumb|275px|Acoustically coupled modem]]
19: ...ial the number directly. These changes greatly simplified installation and operation of [[Bulletin boa... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
12: ...tte River|Platte]] and [[North Platte River|North Platte]] rivers was chosen to avoid potential confli...
14: ...ed sixteen weeks—nearly three times longer than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints...
17: ...raft animals, and livestock and carried enough supplies to provision the group for one year. On April...
25: ...ce of the valley and declared ''This is the right place, drive on.''
27: ...ember 1847, more than two thousand Mormons had completed the journey to the Salt Lake Valley.
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