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- Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
7: ...retations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...h the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed ...
11: ...later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US pr...
13: ...r]], and her ashes were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being stolen and later recover... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...f the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]],...
9: ... and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordi...
11: ...studio, dropped by for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, prefe...
13: ...ling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi along [[United States Highway 61]]. She wa...
17: ...ance....She died some eight or ten hours after admission to the hospital. We gave her every medical at... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...ter Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[193...
7: ...36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age differ...
9: ... her public speaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defendi...
13: ...ontracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave ...
15: ... after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New Yo... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: In 1923, she made her debut on the [[London]] stage, wher...
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman. - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...egitimate daughter of Judith van Hard, a Dutch Jewish [[courtesan]] known as "Youle." Her father was r...
8: ...or [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...[Lou Tellegen]]). She married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (aka [[Jacques Damala]]) in London in...
12: ...ll. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at ho... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...he actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...tober 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United Sta...
5: ...who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repe...
7: ...trage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...ima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...rendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international fema...
8: ...erchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was...
14: ...later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, saw Lenglen saving two match points and winn... - Apple (20408 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
16: ...nus ''[[Malus]]'' in the family [[Rosaceae]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Ta...
23: ...h with it to develop new disease-resistant apples is continuing.
25: ...sylvestris'', but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple [[cultivar]]s. These and other ''M... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
1: ...graved, or a [[relief print]] block when [[wood]] is engraved.
5: ... tools such as mezzotint rockers, roulets and burnishers are used for texturing effects.
9: ==History and usage==
11: ...y]], the only engraving that could be carried out is evident in the shallow grooves found in some jewe...
13: ... also always been used as a method of original artistic expression. - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
5: ...00px|right| Bust of [[Ptolemy I of Egypt]], [[British Museum]], London]]
7: .... When Alexander died in [[323 BC|323]], Ptolemy is said to have instigated the resettlement of the e...
9: ...t the partisans of Antigonus and re-conquered the island ([[313 BC|313]]). A revolt of Cyrene was crus...
13: ...ttle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC)|Battle of Salamis]]. The complete loss of Cyprus followed.
15: ...ia Minor. On a report that Antigonus had won a decisive victory, for a third time he evacuated the cou... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
5: ...He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as a lawyer in [[Columbia City, Indiana]]....
7: ... platform through the state legislature, nor in raising a convention to rewrite the state constitution...
11: ... and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Marshall initially turned down the nomi...
13: ...ited States Capitol|Capitol]] building. Before this, Presidents had made a habit of using the Vice Pr...
17: ...ope]] to sign the [[Versailles treaty]] and push his [[League of Nations]] idea. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ... is not to be confused with the [[Arctic]], which is located near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the op...
6: ... resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See also [[History of Antarctica]].)
8: ...indeed, it has no permanent population at all. It is also the continent with the highest average [[alt...
15: ...of Antarctica is covered by an [[ice sheet]] that is, on average, 2.5 kilometers thick.
17: See-also: [[sea level rise]]. - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57...
12: official_languages = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]|
14: ...]<br>[[List of Prime Ministers of Turkey|Prime Minister]] |
17: established_events = - Formation of Parliament<br>&n... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...[[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean ...
6: ...7;رائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
7: common_name = Israel |
8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Zambia (24496 bytes)
1: ...a]], and then, [[Northern Rhodesia]], the country is named after the [[Zambezi River|Zambezi]] river.
11: official_languages = [[English language|English]] |
15: leader_titles = [[List of Presidents of Zambia|President]] |
35: established_events = - Date |
36: established_dates = [[October 24]], [[1964]] | - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...remains widely spoken outside of the country, and is the official language of nearly all [[Central Ame...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<sup>1</sup> |
20: ...rlos I]]<br>[[Jos頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
37: sovereignty_type = [[Reconquista|Unification]] |
38: established_events = | - Flag of Arkansas (1800 bytes)
3: The '''[[flag]] of [[Arkansas]]''' consists on a diamond on a red field, representing Arkan...
5: ...the state name and two below, but in 1924, the legislature again changed the flag to the present desig...
8: [http://www.fotw.net/flags/us-ar.html#story History and meaning of the Arkansas state flag] - Flag of Vermont (515 bytes)
3: ...The [[flag]] was adopted in its current form in [[1923]]. - Flag of Washington (532 bytes)
3: ...George Washington]]) on a field of dark green. It is the only U.S. state [[flag]] with a field of gree...
5: The design was adopted in [[1923]], prior to which [[Washington]] had no official ...
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