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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
16: ...the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe it...
18: ...le chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...imes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe.
23: ...bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic ... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Hinduism]]. In some [[religious denomination|denominations]] of Christianity, a '''relic''' is an...
7: ...cited is the veneration of Polycarp's relics recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp (written 150-160 AD...
9: ...[[Caesar of Heisterbach]]. These miracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages. ...
15: ... the mystic potency belong to spirits, in varying degrees to the faithful, and to inanimate objects. T...
17: ..., the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroying it accounts for some of the righteous rag... - Ocarina (3914 bytes)
2: ...he underside of the instrument's body. They are made of [[earthenware]], although a few exceptions com...
5: ...lue and white "[[onion pattern]]" as the exterior design.
11: ...nt. This means that, unlike a [[flute]] or [[recorder]], the placement of the holes on an ocarina is l...
18: ...h century]] due to the release of two popular [[video game]]s for the [[Nintendo 64]], ''[[Legend of Z...
20: Another magical ocarina also appears in the fantasy movie ''[[Ancanar]]''. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...ary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the wor...
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quick refere...
7: ...ve come back to this page, paste the javascript code you have copied into your URL window and run it. ...
9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
13: ...llpadding=1 cellspacing=0 style="float: right; border-collapse: collapse"> - American football (39287 bytes)
1: :''For details of the origins and development of American football, see the [[history ...
3: ...d usually has a large set of stitches along one side.]]
7: Outside of the United States and Canada, the sport is ref...
13: ...an [[United States Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]] player tries to thwart his progress.]]
15: ...jpg|thumb|250px|American football is a physically demanding sport.]] - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...ennial]], woody [[plant]]. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generall...
8: ...nkiaer.jpg|250px|right|thumb|An [[oak]] tree in [[Denmark]]]]
9: ...iology)|families]] of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form, leaf type and shape, bark...
13: ...lled a '''[[forest]]'''. Several [[biotope]]s are defined largely by the trees that inhabit them; exam...
16: ...]] consists of ''xylem'' cells, and [[bark]] is made of ''phloem'' and other tissues external to the v... - Dolphin (13554 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Delphinidae'''}}
13: ... Greek]] δελφίς ''delphis'' meaning "with a womb", viz. "a 'fish' with...
17: #any member of the family [[Delphinidae]] (oceanic dolphins),
18: #any member of the families [[Delphinidae]] and [[Platanistoidae]] (oceanic and ri...
19: ...border [[Odontoceti]] (toothed whales; these include the above families and some others), - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...orse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be easily read by humans without a compu...
4: ...rly form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of six elements:
11: ...by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...s, became known as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rarely used. - Lightning (33113 bytes)
2: ...ning strokes are observed during a night-time thunderstorm.]]
6: ...e air, producing lightning's characteristic [[thunder]] sound.
10: ...but while waiting for its completion, he got the idea of using a flying object, such as a [[kite]] ins...
12: ...fallen during the storm had soaked the line and made it conductive.
14: ...ted the original high-object-with-some-spark-gap idea that they used, so he usually gets the credit. - Theatre (9476 bytes)
4: - Greek spelling needed -->
5: ...ture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performin...
8: ... of [[political theater|political theatre]], intended to educate audiences on contemporary issues and ...
10: ...Spectacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer [[Lope de Vega]] wrote that for theatre one needs "three bo...
12: ...tume designer]], [[Sound Designer (theater)|sound designer]], [[dramaturg]], [[stage manager]], and [[... - Comic book (4367 bytes)
1: .... In fact, the seriousness of the medium varies widely.
5: ...ors, while the general populace would mainly consider a comic book a hardcover book collecting comic b...
14: **[[Franco-Belgian comics]] - ''Bande Dessin饬 BD''
20: *[[Underground comics]]
38: * ''[[Spider-Man]]'' ([[United States]] - [[Marvel Comics]]) - American comic book (14771 bytes)
8: ...on of [[Rodolphe T?er|Rodolphe T?er's]] "Histoire de M. Vieux Bois".
10: ==[[Golden Age of comic books|The Golden Age]]==
13: Comic books developed from earlier [[comic strip]]s that had beg...
15: ...mic books had begun appearing in the previous decade. The [[Belgium|Belgian]] comic book "[[Tintin]] ...
17: ... and the content was heavy on [[adventure]] and [[detective fiction]]. - List of hobbies (5016 bytes)
17: * [[Embroidery]]
41: * Classic [[videogame]]s
54: * [[Scale model]]s
62: * [[3D computer graphics]] design
63: * [[Animation]] design - History of dance (9081 bytes)
3: ...g dance is the [[Natya Shastra]] on which the ''modern'' interpritation classical Indian dance (e.g. ...
5: ...ds of dancing is by [[Homer]], whose "[[Iliad]]"; describes [[chorea (dance)|chorea]] (''khoreia'').
7: ...he most eminent Greek sculptors studied the attitude of the dancers for their art of imitating the pas...
10: ...been kings and queens. A brief outline might include folk, social, ballroom, religious, and experiment...
13: ...imitation of the movement of the heavens.’ (Designing for the Dancer, Elron Press, London, 1981) - Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
1: ...ith the systems engineering principles found in modern macroscale factories. Its most well-known expos...
3: ... we actually wanted, with the other species discarded as waste. Nanotechnology could therefore offer m...
10: ...e.pl?sid=03/10/29/2017242][http://www.azonano.com/details.asp?ArticleID=56]
15: ...d render inert specific viruses. Another is the idea of [[self-healing]] structures, which would repa...
17: ...le: a photosensor could passively measure the incident light and discharge its absorbed energy as elec... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...tion of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
9: ...re conservative interpreters of the concept would demand that the text have a physical form, usually o...
11: ...ience fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
15: ...gy|psychological]] insight in the delineation and development of character. - Sword (24928 bytes)
2: ...d periods as a result of the differences in blade design and purpose. The names given to many swords i...
10: ...[[Bronze Age sword]]s with typical leaf-shaped blades first appear near the [[Mediterranean]] and the ...
14: ... swords were not comparable to later [[steel]] blades; being brittle, they were even inferior to good ...
16: ... Persia.jpg|left|thumb|150px|A decorative sword made of [[gold]] in [[7th century]] [[Iran|Iran (Persi...
18: ...[[pattern welding]]. Over time, different methods developed all over the world. - Leone Battista Alberti (5967 bytes)
1: ...eral [[Renaissance]] [[polymath]] . His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''. In [[Ita...
8: Alberti made a variety of contributions to several fields:
10: ...leschi]]. He also wrote works on [[sculpture]], ''De Statua''.
11: ...tieth year, entitled ''Philodoxius,'' would later deceive the younger [[Aldus Manutius]], who edited a...
12: ...se typographic qualities and illustrations have made it legendary as one of the most beautiful books e...
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