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- Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...etter for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educated people to teach in his empire, to inform the [[Mongols]]...
16: ...ved in Asia. Though they were much impressed, the people of Venice still doubted the Polos. - Society (6217 bytes)
6: ...eaning of ''society'' simply refers to a group of people living together in an ordered community.{{fn|1}}
8: ...ces]] use the term ''society'' to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed (or semi-open) [[social s...
15: ...] societies, [[horticulture|horticulturalist]] or simple farming societies, and [[agriculture|intensive ag...
20: ...behest of some individual or some larger group of people. This type of ''generosity'' can be seen in all k...
22: ...ow a status on some individual or larger group of people, when that individual or group performs an admire... - Flute (11293 bytes)
7: ...formance have led to the development of what many people consider ''the'' flute, the [[Western concert flu...
53: ...er of the instrument. The Indian flutes are very simple instruments when compared with their western coun... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
24: ...derivative of historical fingering, it requires a simple forked fingering for the fourth scale degree in t...
29: This term is regrettably used by relatively few people but it is in fact the best word for describing th...
34: ...ransition from recorder to a modern woodwind much simpler for a schoolchild. - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
5: ...n northern Australia suggests that the Aboriginal people of the Kakadu region have been using the didgerid...
7: ...ype of instrument made and used by the [[Yolngu]] people of north-east [[Arnhem Land]]. This name is not a...
39: ...], [[yucca]] and other materials. For a cheap and simple didgeridoo, a length of [[polyvinyl chloride|PVC]... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", Je...
20: ...rst used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the cont...
28: ... for each note. The instrument was copied by many people, and many variations came into existence in a ver...
33: ...e two or three bass harmony keys, which sound the simple chords of the tonic and dominant. - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
99: A number of people have made specially tuned variants of the diatoni...
174: ... interesting warbling tonal variation on the very simple waveform of the basic ten- or twelve-hole diatoni...
195: ...harmonicas include tiny four-hole instruments and simple plastic models of a conventional size.
201: ...arn it alone) and because of its practical size. People also began to call it a harp. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...an origin, as no Indigenous Brazilian or European people use musical bows, and very similar instruments ar...
56: ...er leads the singing, which is made easier by the simple rythm and little variation that he plays, and add...
58: ...s the Gunga. For instance, while the Gunga play a simple, eight-unit pattern "tsh-tsh, ding, dong, dong", ... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
47: ...tes deadlocked, with no candidate reaching even a simple majority, much less the required [[supermajority]...
58: ...n of similar beliefs but a broad cross-section of people he personally knew. Many thought that the diverse... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
106: ...ly that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of a...
109: ...ount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between h...
167: ... executed by the United States government.) Three people were sentenced to life imprisonment ([[Michael O'...
268: *[[World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium]]
320: ...g.org/etext/11728 eText of ''Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence''... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
126: ...a ridge, but has different characteristics than a simple volcano.
140: There are debates about the simple "hotspot" concept, since theorists cannot agree o...
159: ...on. The government evacuated tens of thousands of people. Forty eight hours later, bang on time, the volca... - Greece (54754 bytes)
72: ... progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period of uncertainty and ...
76: The invasions of the [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] after the battle of [[Manzikert]] in 107...
87: ...]] and were not Crypto-Christians became [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] in the eyes of Orthodox Greeks. Therefor...
90: ...unteered to fight for the cause — including people like [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord ...
100: ...[[Axis Powers|Axis]], the Greek government gave a simple negative response (see [[Oxi Day]]) — there... - Finland (29511 bytes)
65: ...presentation of "the people" since they spoke the people's language and since a great deal of their ancest...
71: ...t the Soviet Union got even more influence; other people worked single-mindedly to oppose the communists.
88: ...titutionality of laws in Finland is verified by a simple vote in the parliament. However, the Constitution...
104: ...land. [[Dialect]]s, [[folklore]], [[custom]]s and people's feeling of affiliation are associated with thes...
143: ...o the north, in [[Lapland]], are found the [[Sami people|Sami]], numbering less than 7,000, who like the F... - Israel (51605 bytes)
73: ... subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]],...
78: ... accepted tentatively [http://www.multied.com/bio/people/BenGurion.html] by Zionist leader [[David Ben-Gur...
142: ... can decide to dissolve itself ahead of time by a simple majority, known as a vote of no-confidence.
255: At the end of [[2003]], of Israel's 6.7 million people, 81% were "[[Jew]]s and others", and 19% were [[A... - Spain (36498 bytes)
58: ...he [[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separ...
97: ...ment going to great lengths to shield the Spanish people from the effects of the [[oil crisis]].
114: ...fusal of the Spanish state of the right of Basque people to choose freely their political status. Recently...
118: ...2005, Spain became the first country to allow its people to vote on the European Union constitution that w...
183: ...ult of a referendum in Gibraltar where 98% of the people opposed them. See [[Gibraltar]] for more informat... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ... ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated different...
13: ... it came from other than that it was a [[plant]]; people in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibe...
95: [[simple:Cotton]] - Mummy (16225 bytes)
45: ...dividuals would simply be mummified and laid in a simple tomb or on a ledge in a larger tomb. Higher-statu...
56: *'''[[Inca]]s''', a practice also adopted by peoples they conquered, e.g. [[Chachapoyas]].
58: *'''[[Tibet]]ans''', who reserved this honor for people who reached a highest level of [[enlightenment]].
75: ...l produced a number of [[bog bodies]], mummies of people deposited in [[bog|sphagnum bog]]s apparently as ...
93: ...n]] that would be too dangerous for use on living people. In fact, mummies can be studied without unwrappi... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
9: ...ch the game on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...han 200 countries in every part of the world. Its simple rules and minimal equipment requirements have no ... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ...ct, on average Oregon is as dry as Texas, but few people live in Eastern Oregon.
41: ...e the future for all [[United States|Americans]]: simple living, [[conservation]], and [[urban growth boun...
43: ...ncreasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pion...
105: ... the legislature has referred 363 measures to the people, of which 206 have passed.
135: ''See also the [[list of people from Oregon]] and the [[list of Portlanders]]'' - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ... be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place where evaporatio...
137: ... - [[Xinjiang]] Uighur Autonomous Region of the [[People's Republic of China]]
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