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  1. Swing (seat) (996 bytes)
    1: ...:Swing.jpg|thumb|200px|A little girl playing on a swing]]
    2: A '''swing''' is a hanging seat in a [[playground]], for [[acrobatics|acrobats]] in a [[Cir...
    4: ...ile a parent or sibling pushes the child to get a swinging motion.
    6: ...ting their body weight to boost the height of the swing.

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  1. Ionic order (6526 bytes)
    1: ...s beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
    4: ...ger-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wond...
    6: ...ers. This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical e...
    8: ... fluted shaft. Or a swag of fruit and flowers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "ey...
    10: ...[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whi...
  2. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    11: ...and was confirmed by a special election of the people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first w...
    15: ... Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to campaign for her.
    21: ...mployees Compensation Commission]] and to the [[Employees Compensation Appeals Board]].
  3. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
    31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
    33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
    36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
    47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion...
  4. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    6: ...including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhym...
    10: ...areer in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer, she also encompassed [[bebop]], scat, a...
    20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
    45: *1958 ''[[Ella Swings Lightly]]''
    49: *1959 ''[[Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers]]''
  5. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
    13: She resumed touring with some success, adding swing to her repertoire, and continued until her death ...
    17: ...ax's perpetuation of the myth is all the more inexplicable when one considers a letter received by his...
    19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
    25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''...
  6. Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
    34: * [[Swing Fever]] (1943)
  7. Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
    8: ...Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre...
    13: ...]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and l...
    19: ...n she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time.
    23: ...an injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room]]''. The following year ...
    26: ...' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by [[Cameron Bright]]), who she believed to b...
  8. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    2: ... 1 player for a record 377 weeks, and is the only player to have won all four of the Grand Slam titles...
    6: ...egan practising on a court at the age of four and played in her first tournament aged five. She soon b...
    8: Graf played in her first professional tournament at the a...
    10: ...rly years, but led to a steady improvement in her play.
    14: ...st and athletic, chasing down balls that seemed unplayable. Though she chose tennis as her career, she...
  9. Clarinet (18825 bytes)
    4: ...f some student instruments, composite material or plastic [[resin]]. The instrument uses a single [[re...
    6: A person who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
    11: ... there are few restrictions to what it is able to play.
    20: ... (music)|reed]] which is held in the mouth by the player. Vibrating the reed produces the instrument's...
    22: The body is equipped with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one bac...
  10. Trombone (15819 bytes)
    4: ...pet]], and higher than the [[tuba]]. A person who plays the trombone is called a [[trombonist]].
    9: ...d back bow. Tuning adjustment is most often accomplished with a tuning slide that is a short slide be...
    16: Trombones are also common in [[swing (genre)|swing]], [[jazz]], [[salsa (music)|salsa]], and [[ska]]...
    26: ...ural. However, most professional trombonists can play lower "false tones" and much lower "pedal tones...
    28: ...es below the [[bass clef]] staff is impossible to play, unless the F attachment is tuned to E.
  11. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    14: ...ould be repealed because it excludes qualified people based on technicalities, and fails to appreciate...
    16: ...George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
    19: ...President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
    25: ...ern electoral process is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass medi...
    35: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person...
  12. John Tyler (18019 bytes)
    10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</t...
    12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Richmond, Virginia]]</t...
    29: ...ng President]], and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until the [[196...
    60: ...ate, to 'reform' the Democrats, the gravitational swing of the Whigs to identity with 'the North' and the...
    65: ...power of Government against any portion of the people; but however painful the duty I have to assure y...
  13. Sickle (1231 bytes)
    3: ...nside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can swing the blade against the base of the crop, catching ...
  14. California (63989 bytes)
    44: <!-- before modifying these state symbols please verify your changes against official Californ...
    57: Grass = [[Stipa|Purple Needlegrass]] |
    63: Dance = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] |
    81: ...Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
    82: ... 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9.
  15. Florida (24937 bytes)
    36: ...owery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is calle...
    49: ...is considered by political analysts to be a key [[swing state]] in [[President of the United States|Presi...
    51: ...ounding areas, part of the important I-4 Corridor swing region. Outside of liberal [[Miami-Dade]], [[Brow...
    76: ...t as large as those in the [[Midwest]] or [[Great Plains]]. [[Hail]] is not an uncommon occurrence in ...
    85: ...rt]] with four theme parks and over twenty hotels plus countless water parks, shopping centres and oth...
  16. Iowa (24205 bytes)
    38: ...or the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]] people.
    45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] a...
    49: ...minus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough m...
    55: ...[[washing machine]]s, [[fountain pen]]s, [[farm implement]]s, and food products that are shipped aroun...
    67: The topography of the state is gently rolling [[plains]]. [[Loess]] hills lie along the western bord...
  17. Maine (17312 bytes)
    36: ...r possibility for the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used ...
    38: Originally settled in [[1607]] by the [[Plymouth Company]], the coastal areas of western Mai...
    45: ...Muskie]]. Maine has since become a left-leaning [[swing state]], but has voted [[Democratic Party (United...
    72: ... political organization into local units. For example, the [[Northwest Aroostook, Maine]] "territory" ...
    90: ...ry products, cattle, blueberries, apples, and [[maple sugar]]. [[Aroostook County, Maine|Aroostook Cou...
  18. Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
    40: ..." or "Great Rock." ''Wisconsin'' originally was applied to the Wisconsin River, and later to the area ...
    47: ...ean Nicolet]] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]...
    51: ...te due to its residents being relatively equally split between voting for the [[United States Democrat...
    65: ... popularly termed "socially progressive". For example, in [[1982]] sexual orientation was added by the...
    79: ... largest cities. In the southwest, the [[Western Upland]] is a rugged landscape with a mix of forest a...
  19. 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 ...
  20. New Jersey (35646 bytes)
    72: ...1968]], and [[1992]]. It was named as a possible swing again in the [[2004]] election, following the [[S...
    78: ...al south and a rural, conservative north), other "swing" counties like Cape May tend to go Republican, as...
    82: ... members. Assembly members are elected by the people for a two year term in all odd-numbered years; S...
    107: ...ny jokes about [[pollution]] and [[irony|ironic]] plays on the state's nickname, the "Garden State."
    165: ..., Senses Fail, Saves The Day, Thursday, Hidden In Plain View, The Early November, Armor For Sleep, Out...

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