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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: '''Bagpipes''' are a class of [[musical instrument]], [[aerophone]]s using enclosed [[reed (mus...
16: ...f an airtight bag, which can supply a continuous stream of air. Air is supplied either by a blowpipe o...
23: ...e [[Jacobite Rising|'45 Rising]]. This claim is untrue; there is no mention of the bagpipe in the [[Ac...
25: ...ve been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]].
27: ...odern era the use of bagpipes has become a common tradition for military funerals and memorials in the... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><...
9: ...r]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[Briti...
16: ...treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and witchcr...
18: ...ll-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker b...
20: ...zabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...Austen (chopped) 2.jpg|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
3: ...]] whose work is considered part of the [[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose appa...
5: ...sease]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to...
12: ...y. Her view of life seems largely genial, with a strong dash of gentle but keen satire: she appeals ra...
39: Reference: David Cecil, ''A portrait of Jane Austen'' (1978) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
6: ...e]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
8: ...e of the renunciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [...
12: ...president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born po... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
9: ...in_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do...
20: ... the largely failed role of women in the literary canon and the future of women in education and society. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
13: ... scientific author of the [[19th century]], who introduced her in turn to [[Charles Babbage]] on [[Jun...
15: ...he programs in the notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilit...
17: ...ady Anne Blunt]], is famous in her own right as a traveller in the [[Middle East]] and a breeder of [[...
21: ==Controversy over attribution==
23: Biographers have noted that Lovelace struggled with mathematics, and there is some debate ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament ...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who ...
12: ...s the [[Third century | 3rd century]] there are Patristic references to the ''Gospel of Mary''. These ...
22: ...n and reject the authority of women to teach." (introduction, ''[[Nag Hammadi|The Nag Hammadi Library]...
26: ==Expansion of the Mary Magdalene tradition== - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
6: ...d as a woman, whereas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man.
10: ... after Buddhism was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th century.
12: ...f compassion and kindness, a mother-goddess and patron of mothers and seamen, the representation in Ch...
16: ...ed all sentient beings from [[samsara]]. Despite strenuous effort, he realized that still many unhappy...
29: | width="150" | [[Traditional Chinese character|Traditional Chinese]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
9: ...ny tales of [[miracle]]s and other marvels were attributed to relics beginning in the early centuries ...
11: ...sly remarked that there were enough pieces of the True Cross to build a [[ship]] from. The [[Shroud o...
14: In his introduction to [[Gregory of Tours]] Ernest Brehaut an...
15: ...ssessed by spirits, acquired by the faithful, and transmitted to objects."
17: ...he "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroying it accounts for some of the righteous rage w... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
6: ...rstanding of music as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but somet...
8: ...rumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music as performed sound.
10: ...that any [[sound]] would be heard - music refers strictly to the mathematical proportions. From this c...
12: ...nces]] or [[esoteric thought]] - ranging from [[astrology]] to believing certain [[minerals]] have cer...
14: ...proportions in sound - be it sung or played on instruments. The polyphonic organization of different m... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...Old Style]], [[Julian Calendar]]), 1735 in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]]. His father, a farmer, also na...
24: ...length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
31: ... to the Stamp Act was a part of the never-ending struggle between individualism and corporate authorit...
33: ...our colonists during the [[Boston Massacre]]. The trial resulted in an [[acquittal]] of the officer wh... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ...n [[Athens|Athenian]] [[playwright]] of [[tragedy|tragedies]] and [[satire]]s, variously said to have ...
5: ...[[Aeschylus]], he was part of the Alexandrian ''[[Canon]]'', and [[Didymus Chalcenterus|Didymus]] wrote a... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...liest of the three greatest [[Greek tragedy|Greek tragedians]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[E...
5: Born in [[Eleusis]], a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in [[498 B...
7: ...e travelled there for the last time; according to traditional legend, Aeschylus was killed in [[456 BC...
9: ...before his death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown. He chose to commemorate his military...
19: ...his invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however. - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th centu...
5: ...cman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; ''Parthenia'' (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans,...
7: ...papyrus]]; some later discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or [[Erinna]] (''Oxyrhynchus papy... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... other table scripts there can also be used here: transposing columns and rows, and numbering rows.) A...
15: <tr bgcolor="#FFD700"><th> Alphabetical <tr><td>
20: <tr bgcolor="#FFD700"><th> By type <tr><td>
25: **[[List of trivia lists]]
27: **[[List of countries|Lists of countries]] - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...eserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
21: ...rth Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
29: ...[[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of most of the...
46: ...n of [[Theodosius I]] (379-395) and Christendom's triumph over paganism, or, following his death in 39...
51: ...ly thereby renouncing their eastern neighbours as true Romans. The [[Donation of Constantine]], one of... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...eginning of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
6: === Style and trends ===
7: ...rd complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
9: ...nd homorhythmic with a unison sung text and no instrumental support. The notation system is weak, and...
11: ...atable fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has developed by the end of ... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
1: ...t covers the development of [[fortification]] construction and use in [[Europe]] roughly from the fall...
5: ...most often applied to a small self-contained [[fortress]], usually of the [[Middle Ages]],
9: ...ly in the period they are likely to have been constructed of wood and proof against small forces. Espe...
11: ...al and an external ''[[pomoerium]]''. This was a strip of clear ground immediately inside or outside t...
13: ...ar view of what was happening outside and an unobstructed field of shot. An internal pomoeriun gave r... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ...tion]], DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ... and in other multi-cellular [[organism]]s, by contrast, most of the DNA is located in the [[cell nucl...
8: ...ronic devices and computers, but what are the electronic properties of DNA? Is junk DNA only molecular...
10: PLEASE, PLEASE try to refrain from transforming this section into another highly-accura...
14: ...'' contained scientific data -- that would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
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