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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...t in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
16: ...rials, such as [[rubber]] and [[Gore-Tex]] have become popular amongst many pipers, particularly Highla...
23: ...to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seem...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[B...
27: ...n the modern era the use of bagpipes has become a common tradition for military funerals and memorials ... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
3: ... forms to emerge in the world. Greek theatre and plays have had a lasting impact on [[Western world|Wes...
7: ... how fertility rituals developed into tragedy and comedy.
9: ...acted with the chorus, who acted as narrators and commentators. Thespis is therefore considered the fi...
13: ...horus]]). In addition, the subject matter of the plays had expanded so that rather than just Dionysus, ...
17: ...s]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary source]]s such as A... - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...itself as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status ...
25: ...this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dynasties of [[Liao Dynasty|Liao]], [[Jin D...
30: ...at first unified the country.[http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/C0298000.html] Despite the fact that the Qi...
34: ...incial boundaries]]. In many contexts, "China" is commonly used to refer to the People's Republic of Ch...
55: ...ol of [[mainland China]]. The CPC established a [[communist state]]—the People's Republic of Chin... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = common raccoon}}
14: The '''common raccoon''' (''Procyon lotor''), also known as ...
16: ''Procyon lotor'' is the most common type of raccoon in [[North America]]. Adult w...
20: ...selves. In severe winter climates, raccoons may become dormant but do not hibernate.
27: ...al problems like biting and destructive and messy play. Raccoons are [[nocturnal]] but most adapt to sle... - Performance (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:Street accordion player.jpg|thumb|A street musician with accordion in B...
2: ...ividing line between performer and audience may become blurred, as in the example of "[[participatory t...
11: ** [[play]]
22: ...ophy)|action]]s in a controlled [[environment]] becomes the performance (execution) of an [[experiment]...
24: ...Such performers do not require payment, but do welcome it. See [[extended technique]]. - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
6: ...or de Chⴥllerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of [[Chatellerault]] and a woman named Dangereu...
8: ...largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aig...
10: ... existence, a [[rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, ...
14: ...sions. The French army was betrayed by [[Manuel I Comnenus]], [[Byzantine Emperor]], who feared that th...
16: ...hts, and the divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces. For reasons unknown, likely t... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
40: ...he next ten years at the French court. (She was accompanied by her own little court consisting of two l...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship, ...
49: ...n her the judgment to cope with the dangerous and complex political situation in the [[Scotland]] of th...
53: ... was mindful of the role Parliament would have to play in the matter.
57: ...d fled into exile, the decisive military action becoming known as [[The Chaseabout Raid]]. The union al... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
5: ...s of [[Richard, Duke of York]]. These boys would play a major role in the destiny of both sisters. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
5: ... Tudor]], a [[Wales|Welsh]] courtier, who would become the founding father of the [[Tudor dynasty]]. A...
7: ...Henry VI after Catherine's death. Edmund would become the father of the future King [[Henry VII of Eng... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
24: ...[Riddlesworth Hall]] [http://www.riddlesworthhall.com/] in [[Norfolk]] and at West Heath School in [[Ke...
36: ... [[Prince Harry of Wales|Prince Henry of Wales]] (commonly called Prince Harry) on [[15 September]] [[1...
52: ...that people with AIDS deserved not isolation, but compassion. It helped change world opinion, helped gi...
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]],...
64: ...for children, whose innate curiosity and need for play often lure them directly into harm's way". [http:... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ... official described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
6: Maria-Antonia was brought up in the company of her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two ye...
30: .... Marie-Antoinette loathed this spectacle and she complained bitterly to her mother, "I put on my rouge...
32: ...ungest brother [[Charles X of France|Charles, the Comte d'Artois]].
34: ... was being spied upon by her mother's ambassador, Comte Mercy d'Argenteau, who reported with great frus... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: ..., Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is mar...
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/sho...
41: ... At age 15, Rice began classes with the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when ...
47: ...urned to Stanford in June [[2002]] to deliver the commencement address.
56: ... I know about the Soviet Union."[http://dir.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/20/rice/index.html] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
33: ... the even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time ...
38: ...nite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop methods for prese...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made ...
47: ...ps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]". She won promotion to the [[Shadow Cabin... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ... in [[Beirut]]. She returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met h...
14: In 1973, Allende's play ''El embajador'' debuted in Santiago. On [[Septem...
20: ...m of a letter to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the hospital (she died of [[porphyria]] in 19...
37: *[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]])
38: ...''[[The Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child a...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted t...
9: ...Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become [[Hollywood]]'s biggest female star, the first f...
18: ...k Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $5 a day
23: * 1913: Famous Players, $20,000 a year - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had n...
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] an...
26: ...ore finally being accepted by the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] publishing house. Despite these initial st...
28: ...[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any o...
30: ===Politics and House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony=== - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of moder...
12: ...n [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in...
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. ...
34: ...ngly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous s... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that t...
18: ...ly left [[Pan Am]], where he helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hope...
20: ...About 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) woul...
22: ...C Itasca]] was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and g...
24: ... several hours of frustrating attempts at two-way communications, contact was lost, although subsequent... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to iden...
10: ... poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
16: ...khmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]] wro...
20: ...nce. She wrote in her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeo...
22: ... March 1917, and ends late in 1920, when the anti-communist White Army was finally defeated. The 'swans...
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