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- Bouzouki (4321 bytes)
2: ...front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with [[mother-of-pearl]]. The instrument is pl...
6: * ''Trichordo'' having three pairs of strings (courses).
7: * ''Tetrachordo'' having four pairs of strings.
12: ...n string tuned an [[octave]] apart. These 'octave strings' add to the fullness of the sound and are used i...
15: ...B3E4, which is the same exactly as the first four strings of the guitar, making it easier to play both ins... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...uction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later...
75: ...ived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children (2 - Mary Lincol...
89: ...e stand claiming he witnessed the crime in the moonlight. Lincoln produced a [[Farmer's Almanac]] to s...
102: ... in the [[American South|South]] — and won only 2 of 996 counties in the entire South. Even befo...
119: ...roclamation as a wartime measure, insisting that only the outbreak of war gave constitutional power to... - Germany (46412 bytes)
62: ... as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when the [[German Empire]], dominat...
79: ...sm|imperialistic]] course, [[New Imperialism|not unlike other powers]], but it led to friction with ne...
136: ...p to the reconstruction efforts in [[Iraq]], but only outside of the war-torn country. In [[2004]], Ge...
184: ...'''11''' [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]||[[Mainz]]||Rheinland-Pfalz||Mainz
234: ... in the [[Saarland]], where mining is profitable only thanks to state subsidies. Brown coal from mines... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ...is [[List of national languages of India|second only to India]] in number. As a result, there are man...
17: ...guages. The South African passport currently has only French and English on the front cover and lists ...
50: ...inimum age for voting in South Africa is 18, and unlike most other nations, [[permanent resident]]s as...
70: ...ica)|Democratic Alliance]] party, which received only 12.4 percent of the vote. The formerly dominant ...
105: ...o South Africa was extinguished ruthlessly until only small patches remained. Currently, South African... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
80: ... the [[Aceh|Sultanate of Aceh]]; and the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherlands|Dutc...
88: ...ho wanted a more pro-Malay system, and demanding only single citizenship as opposed to the dual-citize...
105: ...ount Ruler or ''[[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]]'', commonly referred to as the king. Kings are selected for ...
154: ...1]]. [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]] in 2001 grew only 0.3% due to an estimated 11% contraction in expo...
156: ...all external debt(50 billion, 2004 est), make it unlikely that Malaysia will experience a crisis simil... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ...on percussion instruments, then later gave way to string and reed instruments.
14: ...a form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of landscape that was to grasp emotion...
34: ...'[[House of Flying Daggers]]'' being popular not only in China but around the world. [[American]] film...
38: ...mb|300px|Detail of Dragon Throne used by the [[Qianlong]] Emperor of China, [[Forbidden City]], [[Qing...
91: * [[List of universities in Mainland China]] - Arizona (24367 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] Only [[State]] |
143: Arizona has witnessed a continuous string of dancing and performing groups of many ethnicit...
170: ... country's total Indian population of 2,752,158. Only [[California]] has more Indians than Arizona, an... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
83: ... Chicago and also into northwestern Indiana. This string of cities along the western edge of Lake Michigan... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
219: ...mb|right|200px|Symbols of the Southwest — a string of [[chile pepper]]s and a bleached white [[Cattl... - Holiday (7753 bytes)
17: '''Consecutive holidays''' are a string of holidays taken together without working days i...
130: Other secular holidays limited to only some (groups of) countries include: - String instrument (8163 bytes)
1: ...] that produces [[sound]] by means of [[vibrating string]]s. In the [[Hornbostel-Sachs]] scheme of [[music...
3: ==Sound production in string instruments==
4: [[Image:AGK bass1 full.jpg|thumb|The string bass is often plucked or bowed depending on the g...
5: ...string instrument to produce sound, its string or strings must vibrate. There are three common ways of bri...
7: ...layed by drawing a [[bow (music)|bow]] across the strings. - Keyboard instrument (2521 bytes)
1: ...enerally be classified as [[wind instrument]]s, [[string instrument]]s, [[percussion instrument]]s, or [[e...
7: ===Strings===
13: ...nardo da Vinci, it uses a moving bow to sound the strings
47: ...n until the 14th century, the organ remained the only keyboard instrument. Often, the organ didn't fea... - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
12: ...tension of each string and the point at which the string is excited; the [[timbre|tone quality]] varies wi...
18: ...ound by wind ([[organ (music)|organ]]), vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsi...
138: == [[String instrument]]s == - Flag (13245 bytes)
11: During the [[Middle Ages]], flags were used mainly during battles to identify individual leaders: i...
15: ...hdrawn from the battlefields, and have been used only at ceremonial occasions ever since.
22: ...aroe Islands|Faroe Islands]], [[Flag of Finland|Finland]], [[Flag of Iceland|Iceland]], [[Flag of Norw...
24: ...Union Flag]] of the [[United Kingdom]], more commonly (and correctly, when used by warships at sea) ca...
32: *The [[flag of Nepal]] is the only non-rectangular national flag in the world. - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
8: ... collapsing Yuan Dynasty. Zhu became one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[pea...
16: ... the office of prime minister and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu ...
27: ...gLacquerTable1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|This is the only surviving example in the world of a major piece ...
33: ...o 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly [[silk]]s and porcelains, and brought back forei...
35: ... and unprecedented strength, Zheng He's voyages, unlike European voyages of exploration later in the f... - Algae (8082 bytes)
6: ...ce [[oxygen]] as a by-product of photosynthesis, unlike other, non-cyanobacterial photosynthetic bacte...
23: ...as been suggested that the euglenid chloroplasts only have three membranes because they were acquired ...
43: * ''Filamentous'' - a string of non-motile cells connected together, sometimes... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
10: ... between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejection of bli...
24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
77: ...h of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, a string of financial panics and the ensuing depression sh... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
38: ...mising technocrats of his generation. He was the only person elected to the U.S. Presidency who previo...
60: ...de. The banking system as a whole, moreover, was only very loosely regulated by the Federal Reserve Sy...
72: ...pe. Thus debts (and reparations) were being paid only by poling up new and greater debts. In the late ...
74: ...nts, and Germany was able to make those payments only because of large private loans from the United S...
88: Unlike many other world leaders in the [[1930s]], how... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...rtheast and Midwest, which were experiencing not only a relative but in some cases an absolute decline...
54: ...and made a strong personal connection to voters. Unlike fellow Republican [[Richard Nixon]], Reagan wa...
67: ...) descended into virtual depression conditions. Only inflation was immediately curbed by Reagan's fis...
75: Unlike Thatcher, Reagan combined the tight-money regi...
93: ...ditor nation to the world's greatest debtor. Not only was this damaging to America's status, it was al...
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