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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...s presumptive]] she succeeded her father to the throne of Sweden upon his death at the [[Battle of L?(...
5: ...ef; colspan=2 align=center>[[Image:Swedish queen Drottning Kristina portrait by S颡stien Bourdon stor...
8: <tr valign=top><td>'''Coronation'''<td>[[October 20]], [[1650]]
9: <tr valign=top><td>'''Royal motto'''
10: ... realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se --> - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the [[Gestapo]]. In the city of [[Lyon...
7: ...]] and accompanied by another agent, she walked across the [[Pyrenees| Pyrenees mountains]] making the...
9: ...[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ...r the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in t... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...erfect fourth above the [[oboe]], its compass is from b to g"'#, sounding a perfect fourth higher.
3: ...ltimately did not score for it and only a single prototype was ever built.
5: ... [[saxophone]]), giving it a characteristically strong and powerful tone.
7: ...y ever produced in extremely small numbers, with production ceasing altogether in [[1955]] due to lack...
9: ...ument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the hand... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...ote produced) is modified by finger holes in the front and back of the instrument. Because of the fixe...
3: ...ed to play softly, the other loudly. [[Vivaldi]] wrote three concertos for the "flautino", an instrume...
5: ... that recorders continued to be made and played throughout the 19th and early 20th century) it became ...
7: ...les]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Jimi Hendrix]]. Prominent jazz musician [[Keith Jarrett]] has even re...
9: ...of c". An experimental 'piccolino' has also been produced in f". Below the soprano are the alto in F (... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...ment was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and has b...
6: ... typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[ba...
12: ...ar the mouthpiece and rest the body of the horn across his arm so that only one hand was needed to pla...
14: ... horn itself. Less globally, given a particular crook, the vibration of the lips could be varied in s...
16: ...ooks without the effort of manually removing one from the horn and inserting a new one. At this same ... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...rialised]] countries, located in the heart of [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[North S...
3: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
6: ... border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;"
17: | align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[image:LocationGermany.png|Locati...
38: |'''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total ([[2003]])<br> - GDP/cap... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''cas...
2: ...xpanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designatio...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese history]],...
5: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
7: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]. - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...alistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characte...
5: ...his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth is more likely to...
7: ...Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of Valois]...
9: ... Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi da San Sepolcro. In the 1330s Boccaccio also became a father, two...
11: ...'Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French romance, and ''La caccia di Diana'' a poem in octave... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and never...
7: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...us' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictine...
10: ...Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disc...
14: ... [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this remai... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...[[sensor]] to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. ...
18: ...edates area arrays, it was available earlier, in professionally-priced cameras. With the advent of are...
28: ...age capacity. A 1GB [[memory card]] will store approximately 1 hour's worth of video in an [[MPEG-4 Pa...
34: ...re, you find out immediately and can correct the problem and take another picture.
38: *Images may be copied from one media to another without any degradation. - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
3: ...g [[West Berlin]] from [[East Berlin]] and the surrounding territory of [[East Germany]]. Its intent w...
5: ==Background==
7: ...]] each had a portion of the city under their control. The Soviet sector was by far the largest and co...
9: ... Conflict over a [[currency reform]] in [[1948]] prompted the [[Berlin Blockade]] by the Soviet Union ...
11: ...an [[exclave]] of [[West Germany]], completely surrounded by East Germany. West Berlin's precarious po... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...id to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military...
5: ...e of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soo...
9: ...h located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], ...
15: ... surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...nown as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[Ad...
7: This article begins with the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification ...
9: ==The Germans and the Romans==
12: ...tive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]] - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rg]]. Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [...
7: ...r were all professional musicians, as well as numerous other more distant relatives, while his sons [[...
11: ...les were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to ...
13: ...om his private library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to le...
17: ...erience with the innards of the instrument would provide a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...nown as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[Ad...
7: This article begins with the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification ...
9: ==The Germans and the Romans==
12: ...tive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]] - Arctic Wolf (3212 bytes)
19: ...to 80 kg (175 pounds) have been observed in full-grown males.
21: ...nto prey viscera. They also possess smaller, more rounded ears, slightly shorter muzzles and shorter l...
27: ...g]]s. Due to the scarcity of grazing plants, they roam large areas to find prey, up to and beyond 2600...
29: == Reproduction ==
31: ...or digging dens, Arctic Wolves often use rock outcroppings, caves or even shallow depressions as dens ...
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