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- Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: '''Odette Sansom''' ([[April 28]], [[1912]] - [[March 13...
5: ...nce to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left h...
7: ...''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
9: ... [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her cover story that Churchill was th... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one ...
4: ...a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...on sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ..."royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ...ivorced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...rockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[a...
4: ...Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
10: ...affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West E...
12: ...Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics ...
16: ...he cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight f... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
2: ...n]] [[actress]]. Farrow was born '''Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow''' but has always been known as ...
16: ...nically about famous mothers and their children modeling the latest fashions for families.
21: ...ct of the [[The Beatles|Beatles]] song "[[Dear Prudence]]".
39: *''[[Death on the Nile]]'' ([[1978]])
48: *''[[Radio Days]]'' ([[1987]]) - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...& Hammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]''.
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andrews ...
9: ...Newman]] (both in [[1966]]), and ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' ([[1967]]), with [[Mary Tyler Moore]...
11: ...-[[1973]], but the greatest critical acclaim accorded her TV work was for her [[variety show]] special...
13: ...r box office hits. She has also starred in two made-for-television movies based on the character of E... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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20: | [[Chemical series]] || [[Actinide]]s
25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
39: | [[van der Waals radius]] || n/a pm - Arm (7276 bytes)
1: ...mmal, specifically the segment between the [[shoulder]] and the [[elbow]]. '''Arm''' may also refer ...
5: ...lder joint allows for movement of the arms in a wide circular plane, while the presence of two forearm...
8: ===The shoulder===
9: ...|400px|Diagram of the muscles in the arm and shoulder]]
11: ... [[sternoclavicular]] joint, while the scapula slides across the posterior chest wall via the "scapulo... - Music (16462 bytes)
16: ...ften considered an aspect of music, if it is considered to exist.
18: ... the expense of rhythm and timbre. John Cage considers duration the primary aspect of music because it...
20: ...actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned." <sup>[[#Notes|6]]</sup>
25: ...mmon terms used to discuss particular pieces include [[note]], which is an abstraction which refers to...
31: ...ch creates, performs, and promotes music. A great deal of music is produced by [[amateur]]s. - Slide whistle (1974 bytes)
1: ... it overblows the third [[harmonic]]. [[Image: Slidewhis.jpg|right]]
3: ...ut it is also possible to play melodies on the slide whistle.
5: ...iver]]'s band and his own Hot 5. At that time, slide [[saxophone]]s, with reeds rather than a fipple, ...
7: ...'', which uses five, and pieces by [[Cornelius Cardew]], [[Alberto Ginastera]] and [[Hans Werner Henze...
9: ...of "Swanee-[[Kazoo]]" in the long-running British radio [[panel game]], ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue]]'... - Bazooka (instrument) (859 bytes)
1: ...The bazooka was popularized in the [[1930s]] by [[radio]] comedian [[Bob Burns]], who may have invented t...
3: During World War II, the name "bazooka", derived from the musical instrument, was applied to ... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
9: [[Image:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
10: ...e, and as air is drawn through the hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, producing sound.
12: Modern free-reed instruments have several aspects in c...
22: ...ons, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrument.
25: ... with Jew's Harps. The reeds were mounted on a wooden soundboard, similar to concertinas. - Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
1: ...re still being hand-crafted today. Some are now made in the form of monumental metal [[sound sculpture...
3: ...icknesses) and all be tuned to the same note, or identical strings can be tuned to different notes.
5: The sound is random, depending on the strength of the wind passing over t...
7: ... the side, until the restoring force arising from deflection halts and reverses the motion.
9: ...ff rod will perform; a non-telescoping automobile radio antenna can be a dramatic exhibitor. And of cours... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...y]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
5: ...ist with no satisfactory solution. Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficu...
7: ...ages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...plete, also (with relics and artifacts missing or destroyed). Egyptian chronology is in a constant sta...
13: ...phres Era'' may radically modify the prevailing modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dat... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
8: ...so the continent with the highest average [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any con...
15: ...he continent, but [[ice]] there can last for extended time periods. Nearly all of Antarctica is cover...
24: ...ea is called [[Western Antarctica]] and the remainder [[Eastern Antarctica]], since they correspond ro...
30: ...ons, particularly those close to the continent, made territorial claims in the [[20th century]]. These... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
1: ...[Gulf of Guinea]] in the south. Major cities include the capital [[Abuja]], the former capital [[Lagos...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
3: |+<big><big>'''Federal Republic of Nigeria'''</big></big>
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10: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Nigeria|In Detail]]) - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...arch]], located in northwestern [[Europe]]. It borders the [[North Sea]] to the north and west, [[Belg...
7: native_name = Nederland |
18: government_type= [[Democracy|Dem.]] [[Constitution|const.]] [[monarchy]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Dutch monarch|Queen]]<br>[[Prime mini...
20: ...he Netherlands|Beatrix]] <br> [[Jan Peter Balkenende]] | - Feed (1445 bytes)
3: ...en to or meant for livestock (also called ''"[[fodder]]"'').
6: # A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line....
7: ...f origin of a signal, such as is generated in a [[radio]] or [[television]] studio, and (b) the head-end ...
11: ...is also an abbreviation for Front End Engineering Design.
12: * In [[metalworking]] feed describes the rate at which a tool advances into the... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ld|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich history duri...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
5: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:...
11: ...Σ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]] - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...[[Kyrgyz revolution of 2005|revolution]] and President Akayev's resignation on [[April 4]], [[2005]], ...
17: ...itles = [[President of Kyrgyzstan|President]]<br> [[Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan|Prime Mini...
18: leader_names = [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]] (actin...
20: area = 198,500 |area_magnitude=1 E11|
28: population_density = 25 | - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...o]] is an independent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ...the leadership of [[Frederik Willem de Klerk|F.W. de Klerk]] who started to dismantle it in [[1990]] a...
5: ...loped of the entire [[Africa]]n continent, with modern [[infrastructure]] common throughout the countr...
9: ...]], [[Swati language|Swati]], [[Ndebele language|Ndebele]], [[Sesotho language|Southern Sotho]], [[Nor...
11: ...lations are not as such that they require nationwide recognition.
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