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- Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
11: ... we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.
13: ... until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his priva...
17: ... a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill in playing it; Bach was equally at home talking with or...
19: ...d Latin school when he was 18, an impressive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he...
22: ... masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys ... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
8: ...works are best understood in the context of their place in musical history, for many this is essential...
10: ...val]], generally before 1450. Chant, also called plainsong or [[Gregorian Chant]], was the dominant f...
11: ...erized by greater use of instrumentation and multiple melodic lines
18: ...uch as classical, romantic, or modern. So for example, [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''Classical Sy...
22: ...he most famous classical composers. For a more complete overview see [[Graphical timeline for classica... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...tency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]]...
11: ... first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[...
13: ...ed, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences tha...
21: ...sy to identify unambiguously any given species of plant or animal. He proceeded further to introduce i...
23: ...a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the two-part scientific name makes it po... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
4: ...the kingdom of [[Magadha]] in the [[Indo-Gangetic plains]] (modern [[Bihar]], eastern [[Uttar Pradesh]...
6: ...ndusara]], but it excluded a small portion of unexplored tribal and forested regions near [[Kalinga (I...
19: ...[[Chandragupta Maurya]], especially [[Chanakya]], played an important part in the foundation and gover...
20: ...urther east: he returned to [[Babylon]], and re-deployed most of his troops west of the [[Indus River|...
22: ...oc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243&layout=&loc=62.1 Plutarch 62-3]</ref> He is also said to have met the... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ...ks. The visual arts, such as [[painting]], are employed to create the visual spectacle on the stage, ...
9: Singers and the roles they play are classified according to their vocal ranges....
11: ...ed much of the distinction between recitative and aria, writing opera which is essentially presented in ...
13: ...genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed for nearly all imagin...
20: ... ''opera'' means simply "works" in [[Latin]], the plural of <em>opus</em> suggesting that it combines ... - Moon Jelly (10363 bytes)
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12: {{Taxobox section binomial simple | color = pink | binomial_name = Aurelia aurita}...
18: places like [[estuary|estuaries]] and [[harbor]]s (R...
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