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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...aint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United...
9: ...e of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann,...
60: ...however, that like many of her predecessors she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Win...
66: ... a strong sense of religious duty and takes seriously her Coronation Oath. This is one reason why it i...
68: ...ret Thatcher]], whom she has said to "cordially dislike". She was thought to have very good relations ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
9: ...w up a document to reform the code of laws. A legislative commission representing all classes except t...
19: ...] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatowski]], a former lover, on the [[List of... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister.
51: ...ntury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
- Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
19: ...ght, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature an...
23: ...vil War]]. She would later start a project of translating speeches by [[Vichy regime]] leader [[Henri ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
- Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
22: ...frequent interviews with Orestes, it was calumniously reported among the Christian populace, that it w...
24: ...y]] author, described her death as follows, obviously drawing on Socrates but coming to rather differe...
40: ...ne to Hypatia ([http://www.geocities.com/hckarlso/sletter154.html online version]). - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
- Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
- Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
- Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...s "Down Hearted Blues", a song written and previously recorded by [[Alberta Hunter]]. Working a heavy ...
21: ...o maintained that she had died en route, bleeding slowly to death on a stretcher while waiting to be a... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
24: ...rd]] at [[Mont鰩lloy]] on [[August 15]] led to a slow march toward Paris. An attack on the city fina...
59: ...of Clermont, Guy de Cailly, etc) could simultaneously experience her visions. As written in the testim...
128: ...ing Saint Joan of Arc, including biographies, translations, and other original research by the author. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
38: *I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
17: ...100 and 200 m, which were both won by [[Stanislawa Walasiewicz|Stanisława Walasiewicz]]. Man...
29: ...erman press was excited, as the record had previously been owned by an English team. Months later, she...
35: ...ning shortly afterwards. The Championships were a slight disappointment. In the 100 m semi-finals...
37: ...lympics]] in [[London]]. After her experience in Oslo, she decided not to take part in all events, but...
41: ...nish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously. When the British national anthem was played, th... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
- Clavichord (3295 bytes)
- Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...les to be drilled obliquely, with its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there were only six fi...
20: ..., with even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]]...
30: To finish the reed, first, the tip (previously the center of the strip of cane) is cut, so that...
59: ...nsky]], [[The Rite of Spring]] (opens with a famously unorthodox bassoon solo) - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
35: ...e interchangeable barrels whose lengths vary very slightly. Some performers employ a single barrel wi...
37: ...e right thumb behind the lower joint on what is misleadingly called the ''thumb-rest''.
62: ...few early jazz musicians such as [[Louis Nelson Deslile]] and [[Alcide Nunez]] prefered the C soprano,...
86: ...ith a pair of clarinets. The A clarinet offers a slightly richer tone than the B♭, but the inst...
94: ...band and orchestra employ distinct passages expressly for this instrument; the [[bassoon]] is sometime... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
59: ...: if one plays a middle C (F-horn, open) and then slowly covers the bell into stopped horn, you will b...
69: ... horn. Instead of stopping properly, they erroneously close the bell insufficiently and finger 1/2 ste...
75: ...ble for a note to be stopped and muted simultaneously. For marking this in music the following are use...
117: ...e act of producing more than one pitch simultaneously on the horn. To do this one note is produced as ...
118: ...ressure and adjusting one's lip-position, halfway slurring upwards to the next harmonic step. This mig...
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