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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: [[Image:Bagpipe performer.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
3: ...lthough pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...nd the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ...very mellow [[oboe]]-like sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sma...
7: ...', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sis...
9: ...luding [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...umber of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...e [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: [[Image:Jane Austen (chopped) 2.jpg|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn ...
2: [[Image:Jane Austen (House in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: ...e apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...er and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ...of young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]]. - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ... [[African-American]] [[author]], born '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lor...
4: ...n the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but ...
6: ...e]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...93]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
10: ...s currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...inism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who sp...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. ...
7: ...ved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she w...
9: [[image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pab...
11: ...ance]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ... its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...odernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...ed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativ...
13: ...the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultane... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
3: ...ge]]'s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the [[analytical engine]].
6: ...England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...e was a member of the [[Bluestockings]] in her youth.
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...rn shore of the [[Lake of Tiberias]]. The life of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ... to them, "I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."'"
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
10: ==The ''Gospel of Mary''== - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: [[Image:Daienin_Kannon.JPG|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japa...
2: ... Shi Yin''') which means "Observing the Sounds of the [[Samsara|World]]".
4: ...tnamese]], she is called '''Quan ''' or '''Quan Thế Bồ Tᴧ''.
6: ...y depicted as a woman, whereas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man.
9: [[Image:Aomori Buddha.jpeg|thumb|left|A statue of the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, [[Aomori]], [[Japan]].]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ... or a personal item of a [[saint]]. A [[shrine]] that houses a relic is called a [[reliquary]].
7: ...ing how Paul's handkerchiefs were imbued by God with healing power (19:11-12).
9: ...iracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.
11: ...ossess the relic of [[Jesus]]' [[circumcision]] - the [[Holy Prepuce]].
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics==== - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...rm called music actually consists of is something that is still debated today.
4: ...d to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses.
6: ...h language (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
8: ...dana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music...
10: ...pt later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]]
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]] - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ... ''Eumenides'', ''Philoctetes'', ''Pirithous'', ''Theseus'', and ''?dipus''.
3: ...the men of [[Athen]]s were loath to honor any but their own fellow-citizens.
5: ...phanes quotes him twice, in ''The Frogs'' and ''[[The Wasps]]''. - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...greatest [[Greek tragedy|Greek tragedians]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
5: ...The Suppliants'' was written after this, making ''The Persians'' his earliest surviving play.
7: ...[[vulture]] that likely mistook his bald head for the egg of a [[flightless bird]]).
9: ...elf before his death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown. He chose to commemorate his mili...
11: ...vestone covers Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, from Athens, who died in fertile Gela. - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th century BC]].
3: ...e people were able to bestow their attention upon the arts of peace.
5: ...nals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
7: ...canty, the most considerable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
7: ...wing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your browser
11: ... (e.g. good old Netscape 3.04 gold) can't handle the page size.
15: <tr bgcolor="#FFD700"><th> Alphabetical <tr><td> - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...rder=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #...
7: ...]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantino...
13: ...astern and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
18: | Justinian builds the church of [[Hagia Sophia]] (Αγί&#...
21: ...frica and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]]. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
2: [[Image:Medieval_musicians4.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval Musicians. Image provided by [h...
3: ... the end of the Medieval era and the beginning of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is...
7: ...edieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
9: ... cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most com...
11: ...umental accompaniment has developed by the end of the era. - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...e [[Roman Empire]] to the [[Renaissance]]. During this millennium, fortifications changed [[Medieval w...
5: ...o a small self-contained [[fortress]], usually of the [[Middle Ages]],
9: ...of events in the [[Five Burghs|Five Boroughs]] of the [[Danelaw]] in [[England]].
11: ...om the classical [[Latin]] ''post murum'', behind the wall.
13: ... [[sixteenth century]], the word had developed further in common use, into ''pomery''. - DNA (29095 bytes)
1: [[Image:DNAhelixSpaceFilling.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Space-filling model of a section o...
3: ...[[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ...st of the DNA is located in the [[cell nucleus]]. The [[energy]]-generating [[organelle]]s known as [[...
8: ...of electronic devices and computers, but what are the electronic properties of DNA? Is junk DNA only m...
10: ... not necessarily a very accurate description, and that it's only meant as a generic overview.
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