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- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
41: ...://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goa... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
4: ...o has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a...
6: ...endolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
10: ...'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...she was born the day before Christmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American ...
6: Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Ma...
17: ...h all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek a...
35: ...age of 83 and spent her remaining years in [[Glen Echo, Maryland]]. She died in 1912 at age 90, and is b...
41: ...Imperial Russia and the International Red Cross Medal. Her final act was founding the National First A... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...nal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elo...
13: ...ust 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, afte...
19: ...13, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home an...
23: ...she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the articles...
27: ...lding in the [[Echo Park, Los Angeles, California|Echo Park]] area of Los Angeles, and it was completed ... - Bombarde (846 bytes)
3: ...sed in a duet with the [[biniou]] for Breton folk dancing.
5: ...yer recovers while the other instruments play the echo. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
3: ..., an example of which survives in Leipzig to this day. It consisted of two recorders in f' connected t...
9: ...e not uncommon historically and are still found today especially the Tenor in D known as a voice flute...
15: ... [[rosewood]] or [[boxwood]] with a fipple of [[cedar]] wood. However, many recorders are often made o...
24: ...on to modern fingering, which is in fact a latter-day derivative of historical fingering, it requires ...
26: ...e recorders produce instruments which use the standard baroque/modern fingering – –2–... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
16: ... inserting a new one. At this same time, the standard horn came to be the horn on the F harmonic seri...
34: ...ly played in the Vienna Philharmonic. It is a standard single horn with a dual piston mechanism for ea...
47: ...nt teeth with the tongue as said in the syllable 'da' or 'ta'. Double tonguing is alternating between ...
67: ...y as for stopped horn. Consequently, when playing echo horn, the player fingers one half step '''higher'...
69: The difference between stopping and "echo horn" is a source of much confusion to younger pl... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ... pipes. Many large installations will have a secondary set of pipes in the choir loft, at the opposite...
5: ...[pedalboard]]. Three, four or five manuals plus pedals is not uncommon for a larger instrument.
7: ...nly found in [[church]]es, and in some [[Reform Judaism|reformed synagogues]]. They are also found in ...
11: ...date the text of the heading in any way, please update the link too.-->
31: ...it played. In archaeological excavations near [[Budapest]] in Hungary (the ancient [[Pannonia]]) a Rom... - Utah (29154 bytes)
18: LandArea = 212,751 |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 4]], [[1896]] |
27: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
59: Dance = N/A |
76: ... center of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS or [[Mormon]] Church), of which ap... - Tornado (14220 bytes)
8: ...weather radar]] screens, a characteristic "[[hook echo]]" marks the area where tornadoes are likely to e...
14: Tornado damage to man-made structures is the result of high ...
21: ...http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wspouts.htm USA Today article on waterspouts]
25: ...Florida]], although most of the tornadoes in Florida are either '''F0''', '''F1''', or [[waterspouts]]...
27: ...s]] in [[damage]]. The last killer tornado in Canada struck [[Pine Lake, Alberta|Pine Lake]], [[Albert... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
2: ...= pink | name = Bottlenose Dolphin}}<br />{{StatusData}}
6: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Delphinidae]]}}
13: ...truncatus | author = [[George Montagu|Montagu]] | date = [[1821]]}}
19: Bottlenose Dolphins are grey, varying from dark grey at the top near the [[dorsal fin]] to very... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
2: '''Zeus''' (descendant of [[Cronus]]is the leader of the gods and [[go...
6: ...do-European religion]], also continued as [[Rig-Veda|Vedic]] '''[[Dyaus Pita]]r''' (cf. [[Jupiter (god...
33: .... With the [[Kouretes]], a band of ecstatic armed dancers, he presided over the rigorous military-athl...
42: ...ro or an underground Zeus. Thus the shrine at Lebadaea in [[Boeotia]] might belong to the hero [[Troph...
50: ...]], but the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] — whose name is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her s... - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
50: ...001138 Rembrandstraat] with a few bits of its foundations still visible)
76: * [[M鲩da, Spain|M鲩da]]
92: ...e and behind the audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ide...
94: ... particular rock formation naturally amplifies or echoes sound, making it ideal for musical and theatric...
96: ...eatres include [[Echo Rock]], [[New Mexico]], [[Cedar Breaks National Monument]] and [[Red Rocks, Colo... - Quran (41479 bytes)
10: ...an in a week or a month, one manzil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divid...
16: ...e model for the literary language remains to this day the speech used in Qur'anic times, rather than t...
26: ... Iblis"), and even stories (such as the story of Adam) in the Qur'an. Muslim scholars explain these re...
41: : 'A-lam yaj`al kaydahum faḍlin)
46: ...[al-Mursalat]] ("Woe unto the repudiators on that day!") - Baleen whale (4213 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
11: [[Balaenidae]]<br/>
12: [[Balaenopteridae]]<br/>
13: [[Eschrichtiidae]]<br/>
14: [[Neobalaenidae]] - Woodpecker (14469 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Picidae'''}}
17: ... The long tongue found in some woodpeckers can be darted forward to capture insects.
19: ...y to their rivals, and a method of [[Echolocation|echo-locating]] [[larva|grub]]s under the bark of the ...
26: * '''Family Picidae''', (woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks) - Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
9: ..., during the reign of the Emperor [[Hadrian]], as date-stamps on the bricks reveal. It was totally rec...
17: ...ed for the cannon, and that the bronze for the baldachin came from [[Venice]].[http://gnv.fdt.net/~aab...
19: ... and [[Annibale Caracci]], the [[architect]] [[Baldassare Peruzzi]] and two kings of [[Italy]]: [[Vict...
26: ...]] opening into the [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]], under a coffered, [[concrete]] [[dome]], with ...
31: ... order]] of the Pantheon's portico provided a standard for Renaissance and later architects.]] - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
3: ...her [[Eastern Orthodox]] countries to the present day.
9: ...sexual conservatism derived from its roots in [[Judaism]], and the nude was banished from its dominant...
13: ...terpreted as a decline in artistic skills and standards, and it is true that some of the technical exp...
19: ...ese changes as representing as a decline from the days of Ancient Greece. They saw it as the harnessin...
27: ...aly, North Africa and Spain. He also laid the foundations of the imperial absolutism of the Byzantine ... - Modem (21628 bytes)
1: ...y and decoded to reproduce the original digital [[data]].
5: ...nications|repeating frames of data]] at very high data rates over [[microwave]] radio links. Some mic...
7: ...ital data streams. Optical modems routinely have data rates in excess of a billion (1x10^9) bits per ...
12: ...puter system)|Sabre]], is the distant parent of today's SABRE system.
14: ... [[phase-shift keying]] system and increasing the data rate to 1200 bit/s. The similar [[Bell 201]] sy... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...nt movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States ...
4: ... with other settlers (see [[History of the Latter Day Saint movement]]). They were finally forced to a...
6: ...oung]] and [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Under Young's leadership, about 13,000...
14: ...er than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints could not make it to the Great Basin that...
30: ... their journey in the Salt Lake Valley in present-day [[Utah]]. The earlier groups used covered wagon...
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