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- Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...[[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and pal...
10: ... an important art in [[East Asia]] and the most refined form of East Asian [[painting]].
12: ...sive style, literally "grass writingstyles"). All five styles of writing are still in use today.
14: ..., hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In the hands of...
32: | [[Clerical script]] (Official script) - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: '''Defining [[music]]''' is as difficult as defining [[art]] or anything. It is a problem that has...
12: ... effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be seen as a system tha...
14: [[Musica instrumentalis]], finally, was the lowliest of the three disciplines a...
17: ...there is no term for music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many othe...
24: ...efinition is seen by many as being too broad. The fifteenth edition of the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'... - Musician (3042 bytes)
1: ...ays or composes [[music]]. Musicians can be classified by their role in production, including instrume...
8: ...f the musician in [[society]] is [[culture]]-specific. Think, for instance, about your own [[concept]]... - Alphorn (1746 bytes)
3: ...mes pine. In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alph...
8: ... great melody that opens the last movement of his First Symphony (played in the orchestra by the Frenc... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
7: ...roclaiming the year of release (Lev. xxv. 9). The first day of the seventh month (Tishri) is termed "a...
9: The [[Torah]] describes the first day of the seventh month (1st of Tishri = Rosh...
15: ...le in the shofar affecting the sound renders it unfit for ceremonial use. A shofar may not be painted ...
19: ...e instrument can vary: rather than a pure perfect fifth, [[interval (music)|intervals]] as narrow as a...
23: ...[God]]'s Kingship; next to recall the [[near sacrifice of Isaac]], in order to cause the congregation ... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ...e marriage of the raj㯠and the braguinha was verified in 1998 in Funchal, Madeira, when the internati...
7: ...nes, was Bill Tapia's neighbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...ery popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighte...
13: ...rant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele.
42: The Tahitian ukulele is significantly different from other ukuleles because it do... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
11: ... fingers around the verga, and placing the little finger under the caba硧s string loop, and balancing...
32: *Even beginners will have no difficulty in playing the buzz sound, as one holds easi...
34: ...gourd string, with the bow balanced on the little finger so that the gourd is opened. One can grossly ...
38: ...ppear in a berimbau performance, but only these define capoeira's rythmic patterns (except Iuna).
40: ...the string resounds to shut off the sound. A specific toque requires the open string sound with closed... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...of a [[text]] on rectangular sheets of [[paper]]. First invented in [[China]] in [[1041]], the printin...
4: ...ostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of ...
6: ...o used Chinese characters in literature), the benefit of the technique is not as apparent as with alph...
8: ...ake the text. Gutenberg is also credited with the first use of an oil-based [[ink]], and using "rag" [...
12: ...r day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, ar... - Greece (54754 bytes)
15: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Greek language|Greek]]
50: ...el|''Ellás''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlas}}])), officially the '''Hellenic Republic''' ({{lang|el|Ελ...
65: ... Greece's [[Aegean Sea]] saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the [[Minoan c...
68: ... the eastern Mediterranean. When the Roman Empire finally split in two, the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], ...
82: ...ire]]. Its last emperor, [[Constantine XI]], died fighting on the walls and was buried anonymously alo... - Historical capital of China (5927 bytes)
33: ::The [[Wu Yue Kingdom]] (904-978), during the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period]]
41: ::[[Later Liang Dynasty]] during the [[Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]]
43: ::[[Later Jin Dynasty]] during the [[Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]]
45: ::[[Later Han Dynasty]] during the [[Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]]
47: ::[[Later Zhou Dynasty]] during the [[Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]] - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ... India]] in number. As a result, there are many official names for the country.
11: ...e non-official languages may be used in certain official uses in limited areas where it has been deter...
13: Many of the "unofficial languages" of the [[Bushmen|San]] and [[Khoik...
17: ... English on the front cover and lists the other official names of South Africa on an inner page.
19: ...ica]] feel that their languages, despite having official status, are being sidelined in favour of Engl... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
19: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
70: ...resident of the tiny Horn of Africa nation, the official news agency, Agence Djiboutienne d'Informatio...
72: ...s second president, Guelleh was first elected to ofice in 1999, taking over from his uncle, Hassan Gou...
77: ...ch consists of 65 members which are elected every five years.
104: ...f commerce. Faced with a multitude of economic difficulties, the government has fallen in arrears on l... - Flag of Alaska (694 bytes)
3: ...sign was officially adopted in [[1959]]. The blue field is for the sky and the [[forget-me-not]], the ... - Flag of Kentucky (1206 bytes)
2: ... by the Kentucky General Assembly in [[1918]] and finalized in its present form in [[1928]].
4: ...l frontiermen and statesmen, rather than any specific persons. The motto that appears beneath the seal... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
3: ...g much of Chinese thought, Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China'...
5: ...f 20th Century China is one of experimentation to find a new system of social, political, and economic...
12: ...mperial China, porcelain was introduced and was refined to the point it gave the word ''China'' to be ...
18: Late imperial China was marked by two specific dynasties: Ming and Qing. Of Ming Dynasty poetr...
25: ...ommon to Chinese architecture, regardless of specific region or use. - Hathor (11883 bytes)
4: ...r ''house of [[Horus]]'') was originally a personification of the [[milky way]], which was seen as the...
8: ...he arose from from Ra's tears, and thus was identified as the ''[[Eye of Ra]]''.
10: ... represented Ra. Also, Hathor was sometimes identified as an [[hippopotamus]], which the Egyptians als...
14: ...turies, this, 7-fold, aspect of Hathor, was identified as the [[Pleiades]].
22: ...r fertility aspect was depicted symbolically as a field of [[reed]]s. Her position as one of beauty le... - Alabama (10792 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
52: ... state spirits|State spirit]]'''||[[Conecuh Ridge Fine Alabama Whiskey]]
71: ...sup> in the amount of surface water. About three-fifths of the land area is a gentle [[plain]] with a...
105: The five largest ancestry groups are:
141: ...is overwhelmingly [[Protestant]]. The religious affiliations of the people of Alabama are as follows: - Alaska (24727 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
35: ISOCode = US-AK ([[FIPS state code|FIPS Code]] 02) |
48: |'''[[List of U.S. state fish|State fish]]'''||King [[Salmon]]
66: ...to the east, the [[Gulf of Alaska]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the south, the [[Bering Sea]], [[Beri...
69: Alaska was probably first settled by people who came there across the [[... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] Only [[...
37: ISOCode = US-AZ ([[FIPS state code|FIPS Code]] 04) |
50: Fish = [[Trout|Arizona Trout]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] | - California (63989 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
32: ...Zone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylig...
44: ...tate symbols please verify your changes against official California Government Code sections 420-429.8...
55: ... = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
89: ...]]; see [[economy of California]]). The state's official nickname is "The Golden State" in reference t...
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