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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...d [[reed (music)|reed]]s. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most...
6: ...nnotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...ast, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ...boe]]-like sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...chanter, and is usually produced when the chanter reed is too easy and thus the chanter is overblown. ... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
1: ...us_Theater.jpg|thumb|400px|Panoramic view of the Greek theater at [[Epidaurus]]]]
3: ...mpact on [[Western world|Western]] drama and culture.
7: ...ionysus. However, it is impossible to know for sure how fertility rituals developed into tragedy and ...
9: ...tors. Thespis is therefore considered the first Greek "[[actor]]."
13: ... just Dionysus, they treated the whole body of [[Greek mythology]]. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...t Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protec...
3: ...ber of states and cultures that have existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in [[conti...
5: ...n [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]],...
7: ...ubject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...ring to the historic position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributar... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name = Procyon lotor ...
14: ...hands". Raccoons are intelligent omnivores with a reputation for slyness and mischief.
16: ... is a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur. On rare occasions, raccoons may be albino. The characteri...
18: ...od before eating it (the term for the animal in French is ''raton laveur'', or "washing rat"; the Ger... - Performance (3170 bytes)
1: ...er.jpg|thumb|A street musician with accordion in Bremen]]
2: ... in the example of "[[participatory theatre]]" where audience members might get involved in the [[thea...
4: Examples of performance [[genre]]s include:
5: * musical genres:
8: ** [[operetta]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
6: ...d her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William IX of Aquitaine]], the [[Troubador...
8: ...e modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, [[Louis VI of ...
12: ...h of the [[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dramati...
14: ...t was generally believed that it was really her directive. This did nothing for her popularity in [[Ch... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ... same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...[[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
14: ...gitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female lines could inhe...
15: ...ale lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
5: ...s of [[Richard, Duke of York]]. These boys would play a major role in the destiny of both sisters.
9: ...their marriage was ever consummated -- but they were either married or formally betrothed (the legal e...
11: ...ildhood affection, and that Clarence's desire to prevent such a marriage was motivated by his determin...
15: ...ne's health was never good, and she probably suffered from tuberculosis.
19: ...nd Richard made the boy his heir, probably in deference to her wishes. - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3: ...te). The only issue of this marriage was the future King [[Henry VI of England]].
5: ... Owen Tudor, and give birth to at least four children.
7: ...death. Edmund would become the father of the future King [[Henry VII of England]]. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], sp...
15: ...a [[role model]] — after her death, there were even calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthoo...
22: ...her became the 8th [[Earl Spencer]], and she acquired the [[courtesy title]] of ''The Lady Diana Spenc...
24: ...d amateur [[pianist]], excelled in [[sports]] and reportedly longed to be a [[ballerina]].
30: ...uld not have been previously married, should be, preferably, a virgin, and Protestant. Diana fulfille... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ...rian empress, [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She wa...
6: ...ortant official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...onsidered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...er in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
4: ...olspan="2"| [[Image:Condoleezza Rice.jpg|200px|Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice-Bush]]
7: |66th Secretary of State
12: |'''Predecessor'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...ministration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Af... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...sation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron Lad...
29: ...er also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] i... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ... over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
6: ... relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
8: ... 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she...
10: ...eturned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year.
12: ...n's magazine ''Mampato''. She published two children's stories, "La abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y L... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...r best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[ant...
7: ...bscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: ...period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For ...
11: ...awg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator guts and dat quick... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...h; [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart"...
5: ... in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted t...
9: ...blic's inability to accept Pickford in roles that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...uple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
19: ...om Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewrite...
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] an...
24: ...o a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' in [[1986]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...lyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...na]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated i...
11: ...oved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
15: ...nd painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight...
4: ==Flying career==
6: ...elve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ...aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual co... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...y disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's priv...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to iden...
10: ...e, for her part, had had a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Ale...
12: ... the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ... such as [[Andrey Bely]] and [[Aleksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection o...
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