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- Christmas song (5216 bytes)
2: ...elated theme. If the song is traditional, or specifically has a religious content, then it is often ca...
4: ...od, and often songs are introduced in films, specifically for Christmas. Such songs are not strictly C...
17: ...Crosby]] in the [[1942]] musical ''[[Holiday Inn (film)|Holiday Inn]]'')
24: ...' (also known as ''"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"'') – written by [[Mel Torme]]
26: ...ased three times by [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]], firstly in [[1984]] - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms|Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]], were a time of di...
5: .... The '''Northern Song''' ([[960]]-[[1127]]) signifies the time when the Song capital was in the north...
7: ...yed the Song dynasty in [[1279]] and once more unified China, this time as part of a vast Mongol empir...
12: ...supporters were replaced by centrally appointed officials. This system of civilian rule led to a great...
14: ...prestige. The development of paper money and a unified tax system meant the development of a true nati...
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...bular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the elements ...
6: ...riodic table. Elements in a group have similar configurations of their [[valence shell]] electrons, wh...
21: ...iodic table (electron configurations)|Electron Configurations]]
23: *[[Periodic table (block)|Periodic table filled by blocks]]
36: ...t subshells, which as atomic number increases are filled in roughly this order: - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
9: ...ommentators. Thespis is therefore considered the first Greek "[[actor]]."
13: By the [[fifth century BC]], theatre had become formalized an...
35: ...the religious festival and taken down when it was finished. Later on, theatres included permanent str...
43: With such a large space to fill, ancient Greek actors could not be subtle in th...
49: ... exaggerated costumes and masks, they would be difficult to see. Actors wore thick boots to add to th... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...tory characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war ...
7: ...t of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ... [[Qing dynasty]], although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded...
21: ...he ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
22: ...empire. Three are with the Man and Yi barbarians. Five are in ''Zhongguo''." - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board.
40: ...was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at the age of five, to be brought up for the next ten years at the... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ... him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http...
24: Limbaugh's first television exposure came with a [[1990]] guest...
34: ...[[2005]], Limbaugh mentioned [[Wikipedia]] in the final minutes of his show, calling it "… some...
46: ...rom the fact that during the time in which it was first published, Rush Limbaugh's weight was pushing ...
50: ...ve pointed out that Limbaugh talks unscripted for fifteen broadcast hours a week, and that the number ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...encer|Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp]], and his first wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Vi...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...d the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved...
8: ...woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance...
10: ...m of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband ...
12: ...speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army fighting the [[Italian campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day D... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film.
35: After a lifetime of activity fighting [[racism]], Parks was awarded the [[Congres... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: ...as '''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film director]].
7: ... was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which was directed...
9: ...Nouveau roman]] French [[literary movement]]. Her films are also experimental in form, most eschewing ... - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005)
34: ==Non-fiction== - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]...
25: She became the first American woman to receive French military hono... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ...
26: ==Vocal Profile== - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1...
28: ... official LPs in his lifetime, he was both a prolific songwriter and a tireless studio worker, laying ... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...vements are being increasingly recognised as significant in themselves.
3: Born in [[Hamburg]], Fanny benefited from the same [[music]]al education and upbrin...
9: ...holars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first worked in the genre.
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