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  • compositional style, taking inspiration from the works of Béla Bartók and ... including Fritz Reiner, who conducted the premiere of the Symphonietta ...
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  • In common terminology, wind is the flow of air. In a broader sense ... spatial scale, speed, geographic location, the types of forces producing ...
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  • The aeolian harp (also æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument ... The aeolian harp takes its name from the Greek god of the wind, Aeolus ...
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  • in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling ...
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  • A wind tunnel is a research tool developed to assist with studying ... apparatus to determine drag and did some of the first experiments in aviation ...
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  • performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part. The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...
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  • Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...
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  • The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected ... The solar wind creates the heliosphere, a vast bubble in the interstellar ...
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  • A windmill is a machine with rotating blades that is designed to convert ... Most modern windmills, more appropriately called wind turbines, are ...
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  • lines, on mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas, on temples or homes ... in a kindred relationship throughout the history of Buddhist expansion ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... Flutes produce sound by directing a focused stream of air below the ...
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  • non-tropical coasts and in inland areas, the most common constituent is ... harmless, and children have fun playing in the sand. One must take appropriate ...
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  • A sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups, the other ... of rock that covers about 75 percent of the Earth's land area. They ...
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  • The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...
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  • Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers of ... both southern Presbyterian missionaries. The family was sent to Zhenjiang ...
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  • sophisticated musical works. Serenades of the eighteenth and nineteenth ... a type of cantata performed outdoors. From the Classical period until now ...
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  • object, whether it is a planet (like the earth), a planet’s moon ... Human knowledge of the magnetosphere dates from 1958 when the first ...
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  • hill of sand formed by eolian (aeolian, or wind-related) processes. Dunes ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...
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  • c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ... Thales, the first philosopher of Ionia, conceived the original being ...
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  • The Arapaho tribe of Native Americans historically lived on the eastern ... After adopting the Plains culture, Arapaho bands separated into two ...
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