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- Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
2: ... the house or used in the open, and is decorated with [[Christmas lights]] and colourful [[Christmas o...
5: ...nually for the Queen's Christmas table in the [[United Kingdom]].
9: ...niface]] attempted to introduce the idea of [[trinity]] to the pagan tribes using the cone-shaped ever...
11: ...century, the custom became popular among the nobility and spread to royal courts as far as Russia. Pri...
15: ...rations helped popularise the Christmas tree in Britain and among the anglophile American upper class. - Timpani (31735 bytes)
3: ...te pitch]] when struck. Timpani evolved from [[military]] drums to become a staple of the [[Classical ...
5: ...m the [[Latin]] word ''tympanum'', from which the Italian word descends. A [[musician]] who plays the ...
8: | title = Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, second movement (...
20: ...rough surface with many small dents hammered into it.
22: ...produce the C below the [[bass clef]], and speciality piccolo timpani can play up into the [[treble cl... - Film (18911 bytes)
4: ...mics and the English-speaking international community prefer to use ''film'' or "cinema", due to the c...
6: ...duced by [[recording]] actual people and objects with [[camera]]s, or by creating them using [[animati...
8: ...ecially with the addition of [[dubbing]] or [[subtitle]]s that translate the dialogue. Films are als...
16: ...een for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as ''motion pictures".
18: ... prepared list of sheet music for this purposes, with complete [[film score]]s being composed for majo... - Baseball (36464 bytes)
3: ...is sometimes called ''hardball'' to differentiate it from the closely related sport of [[softball]] an...
5: ...y grew so great that the word "ballgame" in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseba...
10: ...sides of 27.4 [[metre|m]] (90 [[foot (unit of length)|ft]]) called the [[diamond (shape)|dia...
12: ...home team play the field, while players on the visiting team come to bat one at a time.
14: ...eft|A batter follows through after swinging at a pitched ball.]] - Basilisks (3192 bytes)
1: ...ves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal.
3: ...haucer]] featured a '''basilicok''' (as he called it) in his ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.
5: ...ilisk is also the guardian creature of the Swiss city [[Basel]].
7: ...d venom, and kill the reptiles mercilessly. In addition, merely hearing a rooster's crow kills a basil...
9: ...d-eyed man who could transform people into stone with a look. - Comics of the United States (14771 bytes)
5: ...al about them, because of their huge range in quality, subject matter and audience through the past. ...
8: The first comic book published in the United States is thought to be [[The Adventures of Oba...
15: ...merican comic book, in the format we know today, with ''[[Funnies on Parade]]'' in [[1933]]. He print...
17: ...acters and stories. The company followed this up with ''[[Detective Comics]]''. Both series were heav...
19: ...mpanies were publishing large lines of superhero titles, and Superman has gone on to become one of the... - Theater (9475 bytes)
4: ...more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style, thea...
7: ...) [[passion plays]], [[mystery plays]] and [[morality plays]].
9: ..., Song, and Spectacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer [[Lope de Vega]] wrote that for theatre one nee...
14: ...roducers and directors can employ in theatre to suit a variety of tastes. This is an incomplete and e...
18: ...es of people and their relationships in the community that they live in. - Indian art (7305 bytes)
2: ...fic periods each reflecting certain religious, political and cultural developments.
9: ...cious to profoundly change, revolutionize itself with the changing demands and to create anew.
10: ... a visual form, it has to begin anew for another. It is this challenge and revolution in thought that ...
12: Each religion and philosophical system provided its own nuances, vast metaphors and similes, rich as...
15: ... broad cultural history, social, religious and political background of the artworks. In India the dist... - Professional Wrestling (14198 bytes)
1: ...e of the term "entertainment" leading up to the suit's resolution seemed to explain McMahon's willingn...
4: ... only one of the many differences it has with traditional [[sport wrestling|wrestling]].
6: ...ing count-out." If either wrestler is in contact with the ropes, all contact between the wrestlers mus...
9: ...g on the top turnbuckle, and repeatedly punching with a closed fist, for more than a referee-administe...
11: *Striking an opponent with a foreign object (unless the rules of the match ... - Santa Claus (16146 bytes)
3: ...mas Day.]] He forms part of the [[Christmas]] tradition throughout the [[English language|English]] sp...
5: ...dren on the [[New Year's Day]] and is identified with [[Saint Basil]] whose memory is celebrated on th...
8: ...sarea]] when identified as [[Saint Basil]]; [[traditions]] vary.
10: ... as their ability to distinguish fantasy from reality improves and older children disillusion them.
12: ...gs so they can enjoy the belief themselves for a bit longer. - Barbarian (4015 bytes)
3: ...r writer employing the term. The word expressed with mocking duplication ("bar-bar") alleged attempts...
5: ''Barbarian'' is used in its Hellenic sense by Paul in the [[New Testament]] ...
7: ...nese people called the Europeans ''[[nanban]]'', literally ''Barbarians from the South'', because the ...
11: ...'barbarian'' is used to mean someone violent, primitive, uncouth or uncivilized in general. See also '...
13: ...gs). The barbarian is technically a social [[parasite]] on civilization, who depends on settlements as... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
1: [[Image:Girl-practicing-meditation-yoga-while-sitting-on-mat-clipart-9029.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cli...
3: ...some forms of yoga have gained significant popularity outside [[India]], particularly in the West duri...
7: ...ed to by the name is that of the individual soul with the cosmos, or the Supreme.
9: ...can be any activity that leads or brings the practitioner closer to this mystical union - a state call...
11: ...l analysis or the discrimination of truth and reality ([[Jnana Yoga]]). The most conspicuous form of y...
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