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- Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... she died between three and 15 years after the [[crucifixion]] of Jesus, can be found in the [[Apocryp...
15: ...history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was fou...
27: ...ived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, much like Ha...
31: ...nto [[Heaven]]. ("[[Mary's Tomb]]" - a tomb in Jerusalem is attributed to Mary, but it was unknown un...
40: ...jpg|thumb|140px|Right|Image from 17th century [[Peru]]vian [[cult]]]] - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...arinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
4: ...rument's sound. (See ''Characteristics of the Instrument'')
8: ==Characteristics of the instrument==
11: ...ms of the clarinet over time have enabled the instrument to be very agile; there are few restrictions ...
15: ...larinet are the standard B flat and A Soprano instruments. The main written range for these stretches ... - Contrabass clarinet (751 bytes)
1: ...w the "standard" Bb Soprano clarinet) and the octocontralto have been made, this is the lowest commonly us...
2: ...s-clarinet, and Vito has a resonite (plastic) instrument. - Baritone horn (1537 bytes)
1: ...s a forceful tone, as if sounding like a tenor [[trumpet]].
5: ...ng mistakenly called baritones and four-valve instruments being seen as euphoniums. - Tuba (3116 bytes)
1: ...e largest of the low-[[brass instrument|brass instruments]] and is one of the most recent additions to...
3: ...rings and woodwind, or increasingly as a solo instrument.
15: ... pitched one octave higher (in Bb;) than the BBb; contrabass tuba. The "French tuba" corresponds to the te...
17: ...beginners, and the [[sousaphone]] (a marching instrument) almost always has three valves. Among more a...
19: ...This does have the disadvantage of making the instrument significantly more 'stuffy' or resistant to a... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ..., with lyrics by [[Vinicius de Moraes]]. The instrument is also a part of [[Candombl靝-de-caboclo tr...
9: ...m the inside of an automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the ot...
18: *Vaqueta: Small stick struck against the arame to produce the sound.
40: ...red bad practice to strike other parts of the instrument. As with most aspects of playing the berimbau...
46: ...the patterns derive from a single 8 units basic structure: - California (63989 bytes)
76: MusicalInstrument = none |
89: ... to California's 1849 [[California Gold Rush|Gold Rush]]. {{ref|origin_of_nickname}}
103: In this period, some nobles of [[Imperial Russia]] made brief attempts to explore and claim pa...
109: ...d other immigrants in the great [[California gold rush]]. In 1850, the state was admitted to the Union...
113: ... fruit cultivation and agriculture in general. Citrus, oranges in particular, were widely grown, and t... - Andocides (1237 bytes)
3: ...sympathies, he offended his own party and was distrusted by the democrats. Andocides was no profession...
5: ...s]]; ''De Pace,'' advocating peace with Sparta; ''Contra [[Alcibiades|Alcibiadem]],'' generally considered... - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...er, he noted that men would enter into a [[social contract]] and would give up absolute rights for certain...
18: ...dest form of government was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a sys...
31: ...e body that has the authority to make and enforce rules or laws.
40: ...[Napoleon]], and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] (however, Mao ruled long enough that his successors could invoke t...
51: *[[Political corruption]] - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
6: ...cted sharply with the concerns of the so-called [[Rust Belt]], a region saddled with a declining econo...
8: ...es declined. [[New York City]] barely averted bankruptcy in [[1975]].
18: ...ered confidence in the presidency. International frustrations, including the fall of [[South Vietnam]]...
20: ...ing standards by doubling urban wages and raising rural wages by around 75%, building millions of one-...
54: ... was not nearly as concerned with the day-to-day drudgery of executive governance, which he delegated ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...nd of opportunity and wealth, first with the Gold Rush of 1849, then with its fertile agricultural lan...
23: On [[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja Ca...
45: ...l flags to fly over California: that of England, Russia, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of California, a...
55: ...]]. He found good ports with rich pearl beds and fruitful islands, and re-established the city of [[La...
71: ...e threat of invasion by [[Imperial Russia|Tsarist Russia]] in [[1765]], however, that King [[Charles I... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[6 February ]] [[1911]]
19: '''Ronald Wilson Reagan''' ([[February 6]] [[1911]] – [[June 5]] [[2004]]) was ...
48: ...ified conservatives and led to his being asked to run for Governor of California. To this day, this sp...
51: ...e was re-elected in [[1970]], defeating [[Jesse Unruh]], but chose not to seek a third term. During th...
53: ... to balance the budget. One of Reagan's greatest frustrations in office concerned the [[death penalty]... - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
23: ...he torque generated by the main rotor. When the thrust from the tail rotor is sufficient to cancel out...
25: ... '''no''' '''ta'''il '''r'''otor. Notars adjust thrust by opening and closing a sliding circular cover...
29: ...t or forward motion. To reduce this waste during cruise, the tailfin is angled to produce a sideways l...
32: ...ed to change the aircraft's shape so that the air rushing past pushes it in the desired direction. In ...
34: ...loor in the same place as a fixed-wing aircraft's rudder pedals. - March 22 (9294 bytes)
25: ... releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, [[Bringing It All Back Home]].
30: ...ary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
31: ...eaturing a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ [[Million instructions per second|MIPS]], and a 64 bit data path.
39: ...I]], [[List of German Kings and Emperors|King of Prussia and German Emperor]] (d. [[1888]])
71: *[[1941]] - [[Bruno Ganz]], Swiss actor - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...cientific and critical methods during the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had l...
20: ... be regulated if Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite th...
22: ...1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philoso...
32: ... [[1647]], Hobbes was engaged as mathematical instructor to the young [[Charles II of England|Charles,...
36: ...'[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society''. Meanw... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]], [[New Brunswick]], the [[University of Saint Thomas]] and [...
18: ... make the reader his associate in the search for truth, but teaches it authoritatively. On the other h...
36: ...g commentary on the four [[Gospel|Gospels]], constructed on numerous citations from the [[Church Fathe...
43: *''In quatuor sententiarum libros''
45: ...es quodlibetales duodecim; Summa catholicae fidei contra gentiles'' (1261-64); - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
29: ...Gentiles]]. In Acts 15:19ff at the [[Council of Jerusalem]] James judged that new Gentile converts sho...
73: ...us]] (whose words are preserved in [[Origen]]'s ''Contra Celsum'', a text designed against Celsus) states ...
84: ...ly encouraging it, as the religion favoured their rule.
107: ...ritings of this period, however, succumbed to destruction from the Early Catholic Church as heretical,...
136: ...addition, Constantine instituted use of the [[labarum|Chi-Rho symbol]], representative of Christianity... - Islam (36809 bytes)
29: ...il are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth.
38: ...ligion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth . The Messiah , Jesus son of Mary , was only a ...
82: ...ost suras was divinely set. Later scholars have struggled to put the suras in chronological order, and...
90: ...ersonal piety and community life, and completely true in its history and science.
121: ...]] is the foremost source of [[fiqh|Islamic jurisprudence]]; the second is the [[Sunnah]] (the practic... - Politics of Iran (8863 bytes)
4: ...ight-year war with [[Iraq]], internal political struggles and unrest, and economic disorder. The early...
6: ...eliminated first the center of the political spectrum and then the leftists, leaving only the clergy a...
8: ...ves of Construction Party]] formed in [[1994]] to run for the fifth parliamentary elections, mainly ou...
10: In February, [[2003]], for the second time local elections...
12: ...e [[Islamic Iran Participation Front]] party from running. This led to a win by the conservatives of a... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
23: ...ion of Veracruz, Mexico (1914)|Occupation of Veracruz, Mexico]] (1914)
28: **[[Polar Bear Expedition]] ([[Russian Civil War]]) (1918–1919)
226: *[[Contra]]s (Nicaragua, 1980s)
242: *[[War on Drugs]] (~1972—)
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