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  1. Folk instrument (521 bytes)
    1: ...], [[metal]] or other material. It is a part of [[folk music]]. The instruments can be percussion instru...
    3: ==List of folk instruments==

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  1. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
    29: ...t he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savo...
    93: ...orth a read and the Authors notes at the end are enlightening. "There is a sword and there is a stone,...
    110: ...n series ''Justice League'' and ''Justice League Unlimited'' featuring related characters Morgan Le Fa...
    146: ...ur" in ''Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend'' (edited by Maria Leac...
  2. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
    16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
    20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
    33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
    40: ... during the "Celtic" revival of the 1920s Breton folk music scene, inventing the [[bagad]], a pipe band...
  3. China (38909 bytes)
    7: ...f as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status of T...
    16: ...ng the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically descended fro...
    27: The Republic of China as it controlled mainland China, and later, the People's Republic of Chi...
    30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[Englis...
    34: ...;中華地區) refers to [[Mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], [[Taiwan]],...
  4. Religion in China (12456 bytes)
    3: ...including [[Taoism]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Chinese folk religion]].
    7: Secondly, unlike other countries, Chinese belief systems allow ...
    9: ...hin China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], [[Confucianism]], [[shamanism]], and ...
    15: ==Chinese folk religion==
    16: ''Main article: [[Chinese folk religion]]''
  5. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    25: ...and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bastion, unless they had the permission of a bishop. In her tw...
    45: ...idency and the first woman candidate in what was only the second presidential election to be contested...
    55: ...n as a near certainty to win the presidency. The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat C...
    65: ...resident Hillery back in 1982, became known, suddenly was taken very seriously again. (As was Hillery,...
    69: ... she sought it. In the previous fifty-two years, only one address to the Oireachtas (parliament) had t...
  6. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    6: ...the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights...
    21: ...volvement with the [[NAACP]] and the [[Highlander Folk School]] in an attempt to portray her as an avera...
    25: ...urt on [[Commerce Clause]] grounds. That victory only overturned state segregation laws as applied to ...
  7. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow compos...
    65: *''Galgenlider ࠳'' fifteen pieces for mezzo-soprano, percu...
    66: *''Galgenlider ࠵'' fourteen pieces for mezzo-soprano, flut...
  8. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    4: ...ed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
    6: ...ury]]. For a while she worked occasionally as a [[folk singer]]. Around this time her drug use began to...
    18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
    24: ...h sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influenced styles that were common at th...
    26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
  9. Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
    3: ...or Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording|Best Folk Recording]] together with [[Harry Belafonte]]. In...
  10. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    3: ... Canada, she was associated with the burgeoning [[folk music]] scene of the mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York ...
    5: ... She performed frequently in coffee houses and [[folk clubs]] and became well known for her unique styl...
    7: ...for country singer [[George Hamilton IV]] and for folk singer [[Tom Rush]]. The songs on her first two ...
    19: ...ding [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again patchy and the re...
  11. Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
    2: ...ates|American]] [[rock music|rock]], [[folk music|folk]], and [[country music]] singer and songwriter. A...
    6: ... to record her first album, for [[Smithsonian]]/[[Folkways Records]]. Titled ''Ramblin' on My Mind'', it...
    16: ...received a [[Grammy Award]] for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Williams toured with influence [[Bob Dyl...
  12. Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
    18: ... not believe that the Savior said this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas."
    20: ...tly with a woman, in preference to us, and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen to her? Did ...
    31: ...ican Council]] ([[1969]]) it survives strongly in folk Catholicism.
    43: ...eloved Disciple]], to whom the Fourth Gospel commonly called ''[[Gospel of John]]'' is ascribed. The m...
    47: ...e]]'' (Eio Books, 2005), similarly sees Mary not only as the author of the [[Gospel of John]], but as ...
  13. Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
    2: ...]] by [[East Asia]]n [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]s. Commonly known as the '''Goddess of Mercy''', Kuan Yin is...
    6: ...for the bodhisattva [[Avalokitesvara]]. However, folk traditions in China and other East Asian countrie...
  14. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    64: *''[[Good Folk's Sunday]]'' (1953)
  15. Culture (23440 bytes)
    1: ...uating, human activity. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal...
    10: ...ternal [[logic]] and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, agains...
    12: ...ort people's essential nature. On this account, [[folk music]] (as produced by working-class people) hon...
    21: ... conditions. Anthropologists view culture as not only as a product of biological evolution but as a su...
    23: ...erial culture''' and '''symbolic culture''', not only because each reflects different kinds of human a...
  16. Music (16462 bytes)
    16: ...ding [[structure]], texture and style. Other commonly included aspects include the spatial location or...
    18: ...on the primary aspect of music because it is the only aspect common to both "sound" and "silence."
    20: ...h music is made. By 'music-making,' I intend not only actual performance but also how music is heard, ...
    43: ...sic is often preserved in memory and performance only, handed down [[oral history|orally]], or aurally...
    95: ... mathematics, and anthropology. What is most commonly taught in beginning music theory classes are gui...
  17. Proletariat (3268 bytes)
    5: ...p of the [[means of production]]. Therefore, the only source of income for proletarians is [[wage]] [[...
    21: * [[folk culture]]
  18. Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
    1: ...ings from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing how a piece is to be ...
    8: ... mundana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to m...
    17: ...or Jarawa. Many other languages have terms which only partly cover what Europeans mean by the term "mu...
    19: In Czech, ''hudba'' is instrumental music and only by implication vocal music. Some languages in We...
    31: Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must b...
  19. Science (19868 bytes)
    10: ...is impossible and that scientific hypotheses can only be falsified ([[falsification]]).
    16: ..."layered" ontology in which empirical reality is only the most evident layer, but there must also be a...
    21: ...sting mostly of empty space. Many of humanity's [[folk physics|preconceived notions]] about the workings...
    32: Scientists never claim absolute knowledge. Unlike a [[mathematical proof]], a "proven" scientifi...
    52: ... The goal of the physical sciences is to answer only those that pertain to physical reality. Also, s...
  20. Bombarde (846 bytes)
    1: The '''bombarde''' is a breton folk [[musical instrument|instrument]] from [[Brittany...
    3: ...was used in a duet with the [[biniou]] for Breton folk dancing.

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