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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
12: ...equence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the mag...
18: ... from each other without further inquirey,) range from: a local, spontaneous Christian uprising tolera...
22: ...andrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance o...
26: ... punished by the Christians and the Jews expelled from the city] a multitude of believers in God arose... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: .... [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], M...
5: ...University]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical [[opera seria]], such as [[Gaspare Sp...
9: From October [[1971]] to March [[1972]], Callas gave...
13: ...rgely in isolation in [[Paris]], and died in 1977 from a heart attack at age 53. The funeral service w...
15: In late [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: ...posed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quart...
35: *''Garten von freuden und traurigkeiten'' for flute, viola, harp a...
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
13: ... 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in...
15: ...|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentat...
19: ...Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from the historical biblical accounts, although it i...
25: ... Virgin Mary]]'' or ''Our Lady'' (this latter, in French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Da... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
4: ...Kanzeon'''; the spelling '''Kwannon''', resulting from an obsolete system of romanization, is sometime...
10: ...er Buddhism was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th century.
12: ...ful, white-robed woman, a depiction which derives from the earlier ''[[Pandaravasini]]'' form.
16: ...k together again. With eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the uniqu...
68: ...ern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capa...
7: ...]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...vinced by her acquaintances, including journalist Frederick Voigt. She left for [[Hungary]], where in...
11: ...].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
15: ...andated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in French Catholic convents. To support herself, she co...
8: ...us productions. One of the earliest was a reading from ''Ph褲e'' by [[Jean Racine]], at [[Thomas Edis...
14: Sarah Bernhardt was made a member of France's [[Legion of Honor]] in 1914.
16: ...s buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France. - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
5: ... came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. They divorced in ...
11: ... her marriage with Andr預revin (3 adopted) and 3 from her time with Woody Allen (2 adopted).
18: * Farrow became friends with [[Roman Polanski]] and his wife [[Sharo...
20: ...o had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from [[Bard College]] in [[2004]]. - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ... Archie]]'') and to the production of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broad...
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andre...
9: ...]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul ...
11: ....jpg|left|frame|With [[Dick van Dyke]] in a scene from the film ''Mary Poppins'']]''[[Star!]]'', a [[1...
15: ...reed to direct a [[Toronto]] revival of ''The Boy Friend'', the Broadway musical in which she made her... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...) is a former World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player from Germany. She is widely considered to be one of ...
10: ...ourts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but led to a...
14: ...powerful forehand, which earned her the nickname "Fraulein Forehand"'. Over time, Graf also developed ...
18: ...n and did enough to claim the World No. 1 ranking from Navratilova in August 1987. She also helped Wes...
22: ... Evert in straight sets in the final. Then at the French Open, she successfully defended her title by ... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...e [[French language|French]] translation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded up...
12: ... concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
21: ... the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time...
49: ...cumstances which helped these geniuses to come to fruition.
51: ...Burckhardt|Burckhardt]]. This argues for a change from collective neutrality towards the ''lonely geni... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...ges and below. Also called ''fagott'', in German, from a word meaning "bundle of sticks" due to its co...
6: ...y to the reed. It was, like the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to...
8: ...nificantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from a more general term referring to the bass regis...
14: ...g joint <font color=red>(3)</font>, which extends from boot to bocal; and the [[bocal]] (or crook) <fo...
16: ...ain]]ed and [[varnish]]ed. The top of the bell is frequently completed with a ring, often of plastic o... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...nt]] in the [[woodwind]] family. The name derives from adding the suffix ''-et'' meaning ''little'' to...
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in t...
15: ...ak" notes are the clarion register, and the range from high C (with two ledger lines) to the G above t...
20: ...e major manufacturer makes professional clarinets from a composite mixture of plastic resin and wood c...
22: ...d with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one back) and 17 keys which allow the full mu... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
1: [[Image:French-horn.png|right|]]
2: ...e'' or hunting horn, and has been known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this us...
4: ...alian language|It.]]), ''cor'' ([[French language|Fr.]]), etc.
6: ...e typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[b...
12: ...ne hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ... instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau was eventually incorporated into...
9: ...n automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the other. A [[gourd]] ...
11: ...so be altered by moving the caba硠back and forth from the abdomen, producing a wah-like sound.
34: ...ing, and by sliding the gourd a little up or down from the place where the sound is best.
36: ...rom C to D). One can press the dobr㯠away enough from the gourd for this only if the bow is about 4 f... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ... the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monro...
24: ...-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] a...
30: ... State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both of these ...
34: ...iring Missouri as a slave state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Mi...
36: ...e free from future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' a...
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