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- Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
7: ...many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after l...
11: ...pressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes ...
24: ... comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among oth...
28: ...sode of ''[[The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour]]'', the couple [[divorce]]d. One of television's greatest marri...
32: ...t in production. For instance, she apparently completely misunderstood the premise of one of the comp... - 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... - Koala (10686 bytes)
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20: ...art is [[Latin]] and means "ash-colored". Some people refer to the koala as a koala bear—this is...
37: ...d watercourses that meander across the dry inland plains allows koalas to exist in surprisingly [[arid...
41: ...al]]. They do not make nests, but sleep in a tree fork or on a branch. They climb using their powerful c... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
55: ...nnsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and name...
69: ...dustry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years t...
71: ...; dramatic, sometimes violent confrontations took place between [[organized labor]] and the state's in...
86: ...stricts[http://www.courts.state.pa.us/Index/CommonPleas/Judicialdistricts.asp], each of which has dist...
88: ...strict has at least one, and the Courts of Common Pleas serving the larger Pennsylvania counties have ... - Montana (14119 bytes)
40: ...ss|Congress]], [[Jeannette Rankin]]. Montana's people are largely homogenous, with 89.5 percent of the...
49: ...ssouri River|Missouri]], [[Clark Fork River|Clark Fork of the Columbia]], [[Milk River (Montana-Alberta)...
55: ...d with the [[Clarks Fork Yellowstone River|Clarks Fork]] of the Yellowstone River) rises in the Rocky Mo...
57: ...Sagebrush and various species of grass are common plants in the region, and forests cover 1/4 of the s...
95: The religious affiliations of the people of Montana are: - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
132: * [[1711]]: [[Tuning fork]]: [[John Shore]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]] - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...trapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
3: ...[[insect]]s and other [[arthropod]]s. Carnivorous plants usually
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: ...rote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
10: ...asic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
8: ...od that has been grilled. For this reason many people consider any outdoor cooking, including grilling...
10: ... meat should be turned several times to ensure complete cooking.
19: *the role that smoke plays in preparation
26: ...t barbecuing (often called grilling), the food is placed directly above the flame or other source of h...
31: ...or sugary sauces of an American barbecue. Instead plain or marinaded meat is grilled over the open fir... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
2: [[image:Lightning.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning str...
10: ... in [[Philadelphia]] but while waiting for its completion, he got the idea of using a flying object, s...
16: ... engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges.
22: ... has two components: the first is that falling droplets of ice and rain become electrically polarized ...
57: During the eighties, implementation of flight test campaigns proved that an... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
1: ...[[Allium]] sativum'') is a bulbous perennial food plant of the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Alliaceae...
7: ==Cultivation and plant structure==
8: ...lly called "cloves" by cooks, are the part of the plant most commonly eaten, though some cooks also us...
10: ...er bulbs. From these new bulbs can be procured by planting out in late winter or early spring.
13: *Plant the individual cloves from a garlic plant in drills of 5 cm (2 in) and 15 cm (6 in) apar... - Horse tack (8580 bytes)
1: ...s, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack.
48: A '''bit''' is piece of [[metal]] that is placed in the horse's mouth, although on occasion th...
50: ...s are too numerous to list, but here are some examples:
81: A [[harness]] is a complicated set of devices and straps that attaches a h...
83: ...cles by means of a pole, such as a [[wagon]], a [[plow]], or a [[dray]], will have at least pole-strap... - Great Rift Valley (4717 bytes)
3: ...about 15 million years ago. It was named by the explorer [[John Walter Gregory]].
7: ... fault continues as the Great Rift Valley, which split the older [[Ethiopian highlands]] into two halv...
14: ... alkaline, while [[Lake Naivasha]] needs to be supplied by freshwater springs to support its biologica...
16: ... lithosphere may rupture and eastern Africa will split off to form a new landmass. If spreading conti...
20: ...[Australopithecus afarensis| Lucy]]", a nearly complete [[australopithecine]] skeleton, which was disc... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
9: ...ith animals, the first manned balloon flight took place on [[21 November]] [[1783]]. King Louis XVI ha...
11: ... air balloon flight in the [[United States]] took place on [[January 9]], [[1793]]. The 45-minute-long...
22: ... pressure vessels, quite similar to high pressure fork lift cylinders.
26: ...ntrol of the descent. The flap is pulled open completely to collapse the balloon after landing. In so... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
3: '''Philosophy''' can mean the academic exploration of various questions raised by philosopher...
27: ...ons behind a belief, or about methods by which people reason.
29: ...te the relative merits of these methods. For example, they may ask whether philosophical "solutions" ...
39: ...e (as in "philosophy of life") or the basic principles behind, or method of achieving, something (as i...
41: ...ualized detachment. This usage arose from the example of [[Socrates]], who calmly discussed the nature... - Moose (8141 bytes)
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16: ...er. The lower prong of this fork may be either simple, or divided into two or three tines, with some f...
18: ... bedfordiae'') the posterior division of the main fork divides into three tines, with no distinct flatte...
20: ...ase of the common elk in which the antlers are simpler, and recall those of the East Siberian race. - 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. - River (12397 bytes)
2: ... refer to smaller streams, as may [[creek]], run, fork, etc.
7: ...nder]]: start to form loops and snake through the plain by [[erosion|eroding]] the river banks. Loops ...
9: ...of energy, via [[watermill]]s and [[hydroelectric plant]]s.
11: ...as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] is [[waterlogged]]. They e...
25: ...mes]]. Heated water dumped into rivers by [[power plant]]s and [[factory|factories]] also affects rive... - Copper (13595 bytes)
136: ...ined in [[Cyprus]]). From this, the phrase was simplified to ''cuprum'' and then eventually Anglicized...
138: ...pper [[smelting]], the refining of copper from simple copper oxides such as [[malachite]] or [[azurite...
140: ...h [[tin]] nearly as old. In one pyramid, a copper plumbing system was found that is 5000 years old.
152: ...opper was also the symbol for the planet [[Venus (planet)|Venus]].
155: ...loodstream on a [[plasma protein]] called [[ceruloplasmin]]. When copper is first absorbed in the gut ... - Rhodes piano (5144 bytes)
7: ...hodes piano rubber-tipped hammers strike [[tuning fork]]-like constructions to sound the note.
11: ...ic pickup]]. The pickups' output is fed to an [[amplifier]] which can be adjusted to produce the desir...
13: ...ssic Rhodes sound, which can be heard on, for example, many of [[Stevie Wonder]]'s songs. The preamp w...
15: ...stic "growling" or "snarling" overload -- skilled players can contrast the sweet and rough sounds to c...
17: == Artists who played Rhodes == - Timpani (31735 bytes)
3: ...ni evolved from [[military]] drums to become a staple of the [[Classical music|classical]] [[orchestra...
5: ...ich the Italian word descends. A [[musician]] who plays the timpani is known as a '''''timpanist'''''....
18: ...mber of tuning [[screw]]s called ''tension rods'' placed regularly along the circumference. The head's...
20: ...tributes to the tone quality of the drum. For example, [[Hemisphere|hemispheric]] bowls produce bright...
22: ...et]] ''La cr顴ion du monde'', the timpanist must play the F sharp at the bottom of the treble clef!
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