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- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... The ISBN is an important book identifier for libraries, book sellers ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- performing for more than 600,000 people, and is the only major cultural institution ... The Metropolitan Opera House in New York is now home to the American Ballet ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ... The total land area is roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly known for his ... social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- from those of modern Western theater, which is usually intended either to ... of innovations that shaped Kathakali as it is performed today. He improved ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is about the inner nature ... clean by traditional Jewish standards. It is part of the Lukan concern with ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- – February 22, 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an ... he contracted St. Vitus' disease, which is thought to result from complications ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 18:00, 27 July 2023
- began at the court of Ivan the Terrible. He is mentioned in 1570 as taking ... Cossacks from the Dnieper and the Don, in what marked the beginning of the ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best ... His insight into orchestral resources is generally ascribed to knowledge ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France. She is known as the author and artist ... 1204), and Claire of Assisi (1194-1253). She is considered a pioneer in the ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to ... Pachelbel's music was influenced by south German composers such ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Buxtehude, along with Heinrich Schütz, is considered today to be the ... He is thought to have been born with the name Diderich Buxtehude. ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 21:17, 15 July 2020
- The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ... a globalized society the place of the Tuareg is yet to be defined. Their old ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- |Genre = Opera, Classical Music |Occupation = Opera ... She was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.Long ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is an extensive 16.3|acre|m2 head of the complex's central courtyard is the Metropolitan Opera House ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- & Nash (CSN). The group's name is augmented to Crosby, Stills ... the festival. By contrast, little mention is made of the group's subsequent ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- For Baroque era composers, music was not primarily an exercise in ... significant support for professional music-making in the German-speaking ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater (and is now the home of The Late Show ... Van Horne alleged that "he got where he is not by having a personality ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- Jazz, was a foremost jazz trumpet player. He is considered a historical figure ... of the great stylists of that instrument. It is generally acknowledged that ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data ... made titles from CBS/Sony. This event is often seen as the "Big ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or organization ... In some countries, submitting copies is a pre-requirement for receiving ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:03, 25 October 2022
- otherwise be bridged. From the realm of art music into more popular genres ... After what appears to have been a normal childhood with a typical ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is the oldest surviving form of classical ... dances accompanied by flute and drum music. The stage is almost bare ...16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
- at least 50 million sales as singles. Crosby is also credited as being the ... the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His is usually considered to be the ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- Moreover, he claimed, white culture is influenced by those traits. However, African survivals can be seen in music, dance, speech, worship, ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output of more ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- Counterculture is a term used to describe a group whose values and ... that guide them to promote change that is good for society as a whole: ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- included Law, Theology, Philosophy and Music. He wrote works expounding ... to the ruler of Damascus. Today, he is renowned as a Doctor of the ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of ... to sixty-four hexagrams.) The I Ching is still used by adherents of ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- with the term "Middle East," which is a strategic designation birthed ... Middle East. However, though Arab history is closely intertwined with Muslim ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Yakshagana (Kannada:ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ, pronounced as yaksha-gaana ... shortened to suit city dwellers. Yakshagana is a cherished cultural heritage ...30 KB (4,418 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hendrix is recognized as one of the most ... & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. His ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- :This article is about Ptolemy the astronomer, mathematician, and ... who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He is most remembered because of ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- was based not only on his popular music and acting skills, but because ... The multifaceted talent of Vladimir Vysotsky is often described by ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- The value of the public domain is that it promotes cultural, social ... the public domain as a negative space; that is, it consists of works that ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- Presley also recorded ballads, country music, and gospel. In a musical ... time, his blending of R&B and country music styles did much to break ...31 KB (4,709 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- side of life. Like Archilocus, Anacreon is notable for writing about personal ... city on the coast of Asia Minor. Little more is known of his life. ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows ... as a new kind of organ stop. As far as is known, it was not applied to ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- composer of the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky is one of the world's most ... which spurred complaints that his music was either too Russian or ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Wolfgang in particular developed a love of classical music. ... his training in science with his love of music.Robert Sherrill, "Natural ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing ... to more classical orchestral and sacred music, always interweaving his ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- As such it can bring a great many modes of music together. It is an instrument ... The word piano is a short form of the word "pianoforte," ...35 KB (5,515 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- ten, producing short pieces that imitated music he had played. He was influenced ... This highly intellectual and scientific approach to music brought ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- values of filial piety. Today, South Korea is struggling to keep its traditional ... Asia. K-pop often emulates American popular music, and usually features young ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- He is the narrator of much of the cycle. Almost immediately, his story was questioned and he is now generally ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- that he was going to pursue a living in music. With his father's blessing ... Sons of the Pioneers, a western cowboy music group, in 1934. The group ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- program in New York State in 1938, which is credited as one of the first ... and in Germany, where a bronze nude of her is still part of the permanent ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating ... rotation, oscillations, or waves, frequency is defined as a number of cycles ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- and Mozambique. Their language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically ... and are famous for their beadwork, which is not only beautiful but traditionally ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- a book of instruction for Noh actors that is considered a poetic aesthetic ... to perform and adapt his style into what is today called Noh theater ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains ... An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- Earl Hines is one of jazz music’s most legendary pianists and one ... with Hines. Armstrong and Hines recorded what are regarded as some of the ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- In music, a fugue [fjuːg] ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- career spanned more than 50 years and she is listed as one the top 100 best ... She is remembered most for her memorable role in Psycho, particularly ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 15:36, 12 August 2022
- Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects ... antiquity through the Middle Ages, beauty is a constitutive element of the ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the title ... Shaykh Nizamuddin Auliya (died 1325), is buried. Khan died shortly after ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in ... carrying the leading entertainment and music programs. In addition, many ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 00:51, 9 January 2023
- Majulah Singapura ("Onward Singapore") is the national anthem ... Zubir took a year to finish composing the music and lyrics for the ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) ... to nurture and sustain Italian music and he acted on these concerns ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 03:45, 18 April 2024
- Obon (Japanese:お盆) or just Bon (盆) is a Japanese Buddhist custom ... regions of Japan. In modern Japan, it is held on July 15 in the eastern ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... Some of the best-loved musicals, such as Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- elegant people enjoying conversation or music in the beauty of the natural ... the works of Correggio and Rubens. His work is also known for playing a part ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 06:44, 31 July 2023
- Willie Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer ... the Grand Ole Opry. Tiring of the Nashville music scene, he retired temporarily ...49 KB (6,754 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... not chordophones. The vibraphone was (and is still) sometimes referred to ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, and topped the country ... website. Retrieved November 3, 2020. His music was featured in top-selling ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in ... Often when playing certain types of music on the violin, notably folk ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- 12, 1992) was an American composer. He is perhaps best known for his ... from serving the specific purposes of new music as well as the larger purposes ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- ) was a Chinese philosopher whose notoriety is derived mainly from his contentious ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Heavy metal is typically characterized by a guitar-and-drum-dominated ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... Salzburg is only two hours from Munich and one hour from Vienna by ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- follow a conventional pattern of steps, is considered a ballroom dance. The waltz is credited with having been "invented" in Austria ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- 9 (nine) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 8 and precedes 10. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes ... bodies with smooth scales, a head that is covered with large shields ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 2023
- of Ten Thousand Leaves") is the earliest existing anthology ... The total number of poems in the Manyoshu is 4,516. Most of these convey ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- Teardrops” on the Ed Sullivan Show is considered one of the show ... sometime in his adult life, but little is known about the circumstances ...11 KB (1,721 words) - 01:11, 8 February 2023
- Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic ... What began as an attempt to depict a new kind of art later became ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 2023
- corruption Electoral fusion (a Fusion Ticket is where a candidate can run on ... LaGuardia is famous for, among other things, restoring the economic ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- one. Their constant re-inventing of rock music, and themselves, evolved ... Lennon devoted himself to music, inspired by Americans such as Elvis ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical ... incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- The braille system, devised in 1821 by Frenchman Louis Braille, is ... written word to the blind the world over, is one of immeasurable value to ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- While considered to be a performing art, it is also practiced competitively ... can be considered acrobatics. Acrobatics is a specialized activity that ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- a unique public-private partnership. It is both the nation's living ... Washington, D.C. area. The Kennedy Center is one of the three most important ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- Jolson is best known today for his appearance in one of the first ... rapport with audiences. His Broadway career is unmatched for its length and ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit ... program combating geographic illiteracy. It is estimated that it reaches more ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- on the cuisine, festivals and rituals, dance, and music. ... ) serves as the capital and the largest city of Nepal. It is situated ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 20:17, 28 February 2023
- 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is ... that follows 9 and precedes 11. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- The Nix (Nixie plural) is the most popular term for the shapeshifting ... The Nix may take different forms, but their message is one of warning ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Grateful Dead. The band amplified not only music and Garcia’s eclectic musicianship ... out of high school. He was passionate about music and all the formats that ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- A virtual museum is a museum that houses collections in digital form ... museum/about.htm Museum of Computer Art]) is an example of this type. MOCA ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- "The most important element of his fame is his reputation as a master ... and his works are marked by a frank eroticism–nowhere is this more ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast ... Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- his death. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvelous ... that are not often associated with modern music of the early twentieth century ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more than 50 ... Coward wrote, starred in, composed the music for and co-directed, with ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- literally means “rebirth,” and the era is best known for the renewed ... The Italian Renaissance is best known for its cultural achievements ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to ... several levels—a widely-quoted Bedouin saying is: I against my brothers ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- skills with an aptitude for business. He is one of those responsible for ... his children and their friends listen to music from morning until night ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), is one of the most well loved ... George H.W. Bush. Ella Fitzgerald's music was cross-cultural, attracting ...18 KB (2,942 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value ... hidden from her son, feeling that black music was not sufficiently genteel ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- schools or universities. The English name is derived from the slang term ... expenses within the family budget. It is not uncommon that parents take ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from ... He learned not only jazz and gospel music, but European classical music ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- these traditions, particularly sculpture, music, and classical dance, were ... Little is known about the earliest cultures in the region. The Plain ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- and roll musicians, brought this form of music into the American mainstream ... his name, but his eldest son had stated that this is erroneous. ...21 KB (3,146 words) - 16:05, 31 October 2023
- Blue Bird, in which the heroine of the play is clearly not a Leblanc archetype. ... office, exclaiming: "My God! The hero is a bee!" ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern ... months of the year (the extra thirteenth is the 'leap month' ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting ... In this respect it filled a role that is now lacking in many areas, ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... Today, belly dancing in its various styles and forms is popular worldwide ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- speech, or other. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will ... mode of expression. "Fashion" is frequently used in a positive ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of ... and professionals from diverse disciplines is indispensable in order to cope ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- His mind sculpted by a passion for music and discursive admiration ... "There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- the northern inner-city area of Dublin. It is commonly thought that he grew ... the Mechanics' Theatre, which stood on what was to be the site of the ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The ... The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- The phoenix, or phœnix as it is sometimes spelled, has been an enduring ... homogeneous characteristics. The phoenix is always a bird, usually having ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... and that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- The Counter-Reformation is usually understood to have began from Pope ... the Counter-Reformation, especially if it is called the Catholic Reformation ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 08:30, 10 January 2024
- that jazz and blues, so-called race-music, was a viable commercial ... on all subsequent documents. While there is no reason for Bessie Smith ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- and Nevis) located in the Leeward Islands, is an island nation in the West ... appreciation of nature remains today and is reflected in the law that disallows ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- musician, revolutionary, and philosopher who is best known for pioneering works ... organizations and literary, art, and music societies. Nazrul's ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... 1960s, and with exploding trends in both music and art evolving, dance followed ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong or plainchant ... of the modern diatonic scale as well as what would now be called B flat ...47 KB (7,182 words) - 13:41, 31 January 2023
- broke into the mainstream with "Thrill Is Gone," which reached number ... Stevie Ray Vaughn, and many others. He is the recipient of numerous awards ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- *College of Arts (Music/Fine Arts/Design) *College of Law ... Ewha 2010 Project,’ Scranton College is designed to educate students ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The main character of the Kalevala is Väinämöinen, a shamanistic ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- radio attraction by the mid-1920s, with a music and comedy trio called Clayton ... told the band to "stop da music!" He helped Miranda ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
- China. According to Chinese mythology, he is a cultural hero, reputed to ... be understood, Fuxi became primary and Nuwa is often depicted as his sister ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- A rabbit's foot, in most English-speaking countries, is considered ... The rabbit itself is generally imbued with a certain amount of superstition ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He is considered by many critics ... Italy and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- in Cameroon and other African countries. It is believed the Igbo originated ... Bini, Igala, Yoruba, and Idoma, with whom it is believed they were closely ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... in 2004 for a second four-year term. Ghana is a Republic with a unicameral ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded as one of ... more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- actress, theater actress, and singer. She is often referred to as "TV’s ... family relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico.What A Character, [http://www.what ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:43, 3 May 2023
- included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the figures ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- acclaimed and commercially successful pop music band in music history. The ... and social awareness, reflected in their music. In large measure, as a group ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- in the end, acquisition of wealth and fame is no substitute for love, "the ... Missouri, in such shows as Irene (1931), Music in May (1931), Nina Rosa ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children ... schools also provide experience of music and art. An important aspect ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- Netherlands. The precise date of his birth is unknown but it is known that ... named their first daughter after her, and it is possible that she used her ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often dismissed as misogynistic ... his view scientifically. The male aspect is active, productive, conscious ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The house in which he was born is now preserved as the Whistler ... He is buried at St Nicholas's Church in Chiswick, London. ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... many alternate lineages also exist. Most significantly, he is occasionally ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- appear in his photographs, and melancholy is the signature on all. He worked ... Czech Poetism Movement, but central to it is a diversity of light values ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- Tonkunst (“Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music”) by the Italian composer ... painting, sculpture, poetry, theater, music, architecture and even gastronomy ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- school, college prep school, or prep school) is a secondary school, usually ... Fundamentally, the goal of education is to nurture a young person& ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- ) is the goddess of learning, knowledge, and the arts including music ... In modern Hinduism, Sarasvati is one of the three goddesses (along ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- order to achieve spiritual goals. He used music, literature, and dance to ... does not exist beyond this world, but is achieved when one achieves ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... the westernmost and easternmost islands is about 930 miles (1,500 km) ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- Bribery is a crime involving a sum of money or an item given in order ... Bribery is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- A counterfeit is an imitation that is made usually with the intent ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Germany), they took up the task of choosing what parts of Marx's thought ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. Apart from his career in music, Harrison led an active spiritual life ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- whose blues and rhythm and blues-infused music propelled them to the heights ... demeanor, their unkempt and surly image is one that many musicians still ...30 KB (4,791 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2023
- synthesis of symphony and song cycle that is Das Lied von der Erde ('The ... modern, deconstructionist era to deride the music of the late Romantic period ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without ... The sound of the instrument is often associated with eerie situations ...52 KB (7,562 words) - 23:57, 12 March 2023
- Tuvalu (pronounced too-VAH-loo) is an island nation located in the ... smallest country in the world. The land is very low lying with narrow ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- The Sydney Opera House, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ... form an iconic Australian image. It is also famous for lengthy delays ...15 KB (2,320 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- lived in China and, together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great ... Little is know about Mozi. The Shi Ji, a Han dynasty record, tells ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and is probably best remembered for ... His love for America—its individuality and its landscapes—is clearly ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 22:57, 10 November 2022
- The honorees are selected based on excellence in music, dance, theater ... George [Stevens] came to us with this. What turned us on is that this ...22 KB (2,997 words) - 16:12, 20 July 2023
- opposed to substance; one exception to this is the number "Remember My ... The "Miss Piggy's Fantasy" music number from The Great ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- time, Petrarch was already overcome with what he described in a letter as ... of its ancestral heritage." Disdaining what he believed to be the ignorance ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered to have been ... Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), which is set in New Orleans and Grand ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- quot; or "expansion") is God in his manifestation as ... No longer widely worshiped in modern Hinduism, Brahmā is still important ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican ... The movement is called Rastafarianism by scholars, although some Rastafari ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in ... i]], is called kahiko. It is accompanied by chant and traditional ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... conductor Barry Wordsworth was re-appointed music director for the company. ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education and ... Fundamentally, the goal of education is to nurture a young person& ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation ... jongleur and the Old French jogler. There is also the Late Latin form joculare ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- Authenticity is a philosophical concept that denotes the genuine, ... or as the negative of inauthenticity, what can be said about it directly ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- A child prodigy is an individual who masters one or more skills or ... them in other areas. Balance in many areas is required for maturity; brilliance ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical ... The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand in 1833–1835 ...25 KB (3,656 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2023
- Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (October 2, 1949 - ) is an American ... naked body on Vanity Fairs August 1991 cover is another well-known Leibovitz photo. ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- studying law, but instead focus on his music. Taking this suggestion to ... and Dream, with a score that included "What Is This Thing Called Love?" ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- ::This article is about the traditional culture of Korea. For the ... yields the varied and colorful culture that is Korea. Although Korea today ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- Teriyaki (照り焼き, テリヤキ) is a method of Japanese cooking ... In the West, the term “teriyaki’ is used for any dish made with ...6 KB (957 words) - 14:46, 30 April 2023
- His commentary on Plato’s “Symposium” is said to be the origin of the ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth. He is well-known for his considerable ... With respect to literature, Bede is known primarily for two reasons ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- of her close association with Reynolds is found in her variation of Guercino ... as described by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, is "cheerful." ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ... (משה סג"ל - "Segal" is a Levite surname, an acronym ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Etymologically, the word "samizdat" is made up of "sam ... tape), often of "underground" music groups, bards or lectures. ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. ... Kansas is mentioned 23 times in the movie and the whole plot centers ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- The authorship of her speeches and articles is disputed. Some contend that ... She is probably most famous for her declaration to run for the United ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- Pink Floyd is an English progressive rock band that initially earned ... popular bands in the London underground music scene in the late 1960s as ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the icons of nineteenth ... Seurat sought to establish harmony, or what he termed "emotion," ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- art critic and dramatic innovator who is known to have directed French ... #039;s "Le bestiaire" to music. Among the foremost poets ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 23:21, 11 July 2023
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... lives on Koror. North of these islands is the coral atoll of Kayange ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- An art museum is a museum that specializes in works of art ranging ... The term is used both for both public galleries, which are museums ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- book most often remembered and cited today is Degeneration. At the time of ... Nordau's major work Entartung (Degeneration), is a moralistic ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- incongruous arrangements of poetry and music. These works became Cocteau ... which Igor Stravinsky was to write the music for. Some remnants from this ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- childhood, she took an extreme interest in music and literature, and would ... the staff of the College Magazine, which is said to be her first step towards ...17 KB (2,601 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products ... Electronic commerce is used for both business-to-business (B2B) and ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- Ever the recluse, Dickinson's poetry is hard to classify. She ... Wallace Stevens; and in that regard, she is one of the most profoundly ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- 6 (six) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 5 and precedes 7. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key ... Public Library in 1983.” In it, he wrote what he thought a library would ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... A colony of Portugal until 1974, with the Philippines, East Timor ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic ... then a city of Greater Khorasan, Persia, in what is present-day Afghanistan ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- She is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in ... The second song most associated with her is Second Hand Rose. She recorded ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- not displace matter. He suggested that color is a quality of light, and advanced ... Normandy, in the Diocese of Bayeux. Nothing is known about his family except ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- the Henderson band. Particularly remarkable is a set of 1933 recordings with ... for the swing style exemplified by Wells. What Wells did was add a touch ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- Kamo no Chomei is best known as a classic example of a man of artistic ... Kamo no Chomei's Hojoki (The Ten Foot Square Hut), is interesting ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- in the imagist movement in poetry. His name is often linked with Ezra Pound ... beauty and meaning of the commonplace in what Williams' close friend ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- death in 2020 she had been active in the music industry for 96 years. ... Thomas, [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/18/dame-vera-lynn ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or ... distinct forms of musical theatre. Opera is also not the only type of Western ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- ) is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast ... Port Royal, Nova Scotia in 1604, founding what would become known as Acadia ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- believed in and taught her followers that it is possible to attain perfect ... Answer to the General Inquiry Who or What are the Shakers (1808). ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit ... NPR is a membership corporation. Member stations are required to be ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- (So mnoyu chto-to proiskhodit or (Something is happening to me)) became a ... freedom of expression). In 1961 he wrote what would become perhaps his most ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- . Retrieved January 29, 2008. , although what he essentially did was substitute ... designer, and toy designer Jiří Trnka is, together with H. Týrlová ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ... to researchers, historians, and scholars. It is a member of the American Library ...28 KB (4,060 words) - 10:40, 6 March 2024
- A bibliographic database is a database that contains descriptive records ... A well structured bibliographic database is an indispensable tool ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a symbolic, figurative mode ... Though it is similar to other rhetorical comparisons, an allegory ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- began experimenting with psychedelics and what Smith later called "empirical ... They confirmed the finding, which is an example of overtone singing ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that ... As music in the Christian Church in Europe evolved, the practice of ...40 KB (6,257 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- A librarian is an information professional trained in library and ... environment. Since information management is vital to any organization, ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) (May 24, 1941 - ) is an American ... to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, even jazz and swing. Dylan ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- critics and theorists of the present-day. He is regarded as a founding figure ... all Western scholarship of the East is fundamentally flawed. Interestingly ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- Nightly Entertainments or simply The Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary ... The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... descended upon the islands. Their demise is believed to have been due to ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte ... The business district, the Plateau, is the center of the city. It ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- her debut collection Dlatego żyjemy (That is what we are living for), containing ... Wars of Religion. In Germany, Szymborska is closely associated with her ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- New Year's Day, also simply called New Year or New Year's ... The New Year is an opportunity for people to reflect on the good and ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis ... The Wallis Archipelago is the most populated of the island group and ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- in mid-nineteenth century Western Europe. It is rooted in the idea that the ... adapt their world view to accept that what was new was also good and ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- "Le Théâtre de l'Absurde") is a designation for particular ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- groups have made an impact by decrying what they deem abuse of a number ... focus attention on the snake charmer's music; the charmer would be like ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 21:41, 30 January 2023
- Years at Hull-House (Addams 1912) there is a passage discussing the strength ... club; a swimming pool; a book bindery; a music school; a drama group; a ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of ... who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 12:12, 24 August 2023
- His legacy as a radical and revolutionary is perhaps best described by the ... What Rousseeau meant by "being in chains" was that society ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- opera director, writer, and actor. He is generally regarded as the most ... Born into Stalin's Russia, little is known in detail of his early ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. This is the most prestigious awards ... prize in the "Open" category, and is considered a winner in the ...31 KB (4,353 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- he had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known internationally ... since. In fact, Resnais's film oeuvre is known for challenging the boundaries ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 04:23, 17 June 2023
- estimated population of 109,083,752) and is split into three smaller units: ... The popular definition of the "South" is more informal and ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library ... France is known for its cultural contributions to the world. In 1980s ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- "Great Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior ... It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of ... rule and a civil war, Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's poorest ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, ... As of March 21, 2008, Baidu is ranked 19th overall in Alexa's ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Morrison is the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize ... home/28957.html "Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner Of Nobel Prize ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Its area is 540 square miles (1,399 square km), with no major lakes ... The climate is oceanic and mild, with generally cool summers and mild ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- , dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: ... by actors on a stage before an audience, is a widely used art form that ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- to non-material products such as art and music, as well as to the products ... the topic, “Which form of free government is best adapted to the happiness ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- twentieth century. Her apartment in Moscow is designated a national museum ... of the Russian classical ballet system is still used today.Answers.com ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 03:56, 18 April 2024
- tones that had a significant impact on sacred music. Ambrose is also well known for helping Augustine to accept Christianity ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- the seven sacred cities within Hindu belief, is a constant attraction for devout ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... The Niger River Delta, once a source of slaves, now is the source ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- and predominant lyricist of the Doors, and is considered to be one of the ... family contact. By the time Morrison's music ascended to the top of the ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry ... Although the villanelle is usually labeled "a French form," ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held ... Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical ... The guitar's presence in today's popular music scene is ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- art for use by the court, and court music and dance, adapted from China ... have revived them. Traditional court music and dance (Nhã nhạc) was ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- Though his poetry was not appreciated during his lifetime, Tao Qian ... he loved the mountains, and instrumental music, and found himself torn between ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- probability theory and aesthetics, but he is most noted for his "Theory ... probability theory and aesthetics, but he is most noted for his Theory of ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known ... ; and ki, meaning “skill” (伎). Kabuki is therefore sometimes translated ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong ... Seton is also recognized, along with William Bartram, John Audubon ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... Inhabited for more than 150,000 years, the area that is now Bamako ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- A geisha is a traditional Japanese entertainer. Often confused with ... , is a proper noun. Like all Japanese nouns, there are no distinct ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- which the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia is derived. ... Wagnalls died on September 3, 1924, in Northport, New York and is ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Ladakh, Nepal, and Sikkim). Tibetan art is primarily sacred art, drawing ... and maintenance; an international effort is underway to restore the surviving ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- and their Academy Award-winning effort, The Music Box (1932). ... Theatre of Varieties and Panopticon music hall at the age of 16. Over ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- of East Africa to the rest of the world. It is generally said to have begun ... Knowledge of human life at this time is confined to generalities. ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- Symbolism in literature is distinct from Symbolism in art although ... Vedder in the United States. Auguste Rodin is sometimes considered a Symbolist ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... Humanism is an inevitable reaction to theism when it is authoritarian ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... When broadcasting is done via the Internet, the term "webcasting ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- The term vaudeville is generally traced to two French phrases: Val ... of variety entertainment, while saloons, music-halls, and burlesque houses ...25 KB (3,760 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily ... playwright, and first became interested in music as a means of enhancing the ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely ... The word acoustic is derived from the ancient Greek word ακουστός ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament ... The primary theme of Ephesians is the church, its basic nature and ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... The Dominican Republic is situated on the eastern portion of the second ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction ... corresponding seasonal divisions. Walden is thus neither a novel nor an ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 4 and precedes 6. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major ... 2010, nearly two years after it closed. It is being converted into parkland. ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping ... Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... The Assyrians are then routed, and Israel is saved. Though she is courted ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- 8 (eight) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 7 and precedes 9. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety ... was commissioned to write her funeral music, entitled Music for the Funeral ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- for these operas, where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies ... aesthetes, and so on, and nearly every opera is resolved by a deft moving of ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
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- holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all ... in the Metaphysics: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- in Dresden, Germany. The purpose of a museum is to protect and conserve the ... Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy is one of the oldest and most ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural ... successful. Originally located in what is now the Renwick Gallery ...7 KB (1,002 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie Andrews. ... Christopher Plummer: Star of The Sound of Music dies at 91] BBC, February ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- Abhinavagupta had attained enlightenment, is one of the great accomplishments ... Most of the information about the life of Abhinavagupta is gleaned ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- Andalusia, located in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the ... on its southern border. Its eastern neighbor is the autonomous community of ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
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- scam, such as the sample pictured here, is one form of cybercrime]] Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers ...24 KB (3,483 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
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- writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for inventing the essay ... meditation, etc., but never through books. Music was played from the moment ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Maria Barbara, born Calvelli-Adorno. It is the second half of this name ... During his student years in Frankfurt, he had written a number of ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- images of his son) were displayed with the music accompaniment of Riviera ... by many. Most of the later shows began with music and the announcement by Ed ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
- as possible. It produced little that is now deemed of lasting value ... documentary photography and photojournalism is worthy of being shown alongside ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia is situated in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- The Marx Brothers' act was based on taking something that is ... mule. The audience hurried outside to see what was happening, and when they ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
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- more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is a highly prestigious annual ... Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. The Guild of ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
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- 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 3 and precedes 5. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
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- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... however, the preeminent ethnic group is the Han Chinese, Han tribe ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
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- Ghazzah; Hebrew:Retzu'at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land ... enter neighboring Israel or Egypt, and there is little local economic activity ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
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- Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... Though Jamaica is sometimes referred to as a melting pot for the great ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
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- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... This discipline is frequently seen as having important anthropological ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
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- Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United ... Honolulu is at the crossroads of trans-Pacific Ocean shipping and ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- The traditional derivation of Cybele as "she of the hair" ... later connected with Cybele's cult is associated with Kybebe in earlier ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
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- Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... almost 300 years ago. A band plays music to announce the entrance ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- A polymath is a person with broad knowledge or learning. Renaissance ... The ideal of the polymath Renaissance Man is embodied in the Italian ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
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- Today the Emmy is considered one of the four major annual American ... The Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, is named ...32 KB (4,624 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
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- to the New England Conservatory of Music to study vocal performance ... While studying music, she met King, then pursuing a Ph.D. degree in ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- songwriter, poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship ... in 2010. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- most important twenieth-century artists, he is credited with painting the ... and unusually stimulated by color. This is probably due to his synaesthesia ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Silver Age of Russian poetry. Merezhkovsky is credited with first articulating ... mysticism obliges. If the idea of monarchy is a mystical one and you are ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... latitude of 19° 00′ north. The total area is 27,750 km² of which 27,560 ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
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- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... ,"Master Mo"), about whom little is known, not even what part of ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese ... The Rinzai school is known for its emphasis on sudden enlightenment ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Morocco is an ethnically diverse country with a rich culture and civilization ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
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- made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced instruction ... religious observances. Unlike Luther, there is no evidence of Zwingli passing ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
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- Zagreb is the capital city, and the cultural, scientific, and governmental ... Zagreb is located between the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
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- but their scopes are different. A society is an interdependent community ... Culture is a complex of features held by a social group, which may ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- 7 (seven) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 6 and precedes 8. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and in the ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- was a Scottish poet and songwriter, who is widely regarded as the national ... His influence on English and Scottish literature is far-reaching, ...16 KB (2,543 words) - 03:14, 15 December 2022
- Madame Lebrun, was a French portraitist, who is best remembered for her portraits ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- and developing a talent for preaching and music. Although an ascetic, he ... Saint Francis Solano was beautified in 1675 and canonized 1725. He ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings ... "Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- memory, eloquence, and audacity. Abelard is regarded by later scholars ... Abaielardus, and in many other ways) is said to be a corruption of ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- acute awareness of his Irish roots. His work is familiar and clever, but intellectually ... by February 1939, and published in May. It is widely viewed as MacNeice& ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- his next work, Sometimes a Great Notion, is generally considered by literary ... "All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66." The Oregonian ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
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- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... India. Today the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Lagos, is the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. The city began ... never existed in the Yoruba language. It is likely that the name "Lagos ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- The Portuguese communist secretary-general Álvaro Cunhal is believed ... * Music for Prague 1968 by Czech-born composer Karel Husa is a programme ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisureCategory:Performing arts ... Lion dance (s=舞狮|t=舞獅|p=wǔshī) is a form of traditional ...24 KB (3,959 words) - 00:19, 5 September 2023
- The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... Cameroon is home to over 250 ethnic and linguistic groups, with the ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized ... to head up the first-year pilot program of what became the Sundance Institute ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 23:30, 26 February 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... of the extinct dodo bird, today Mauritius is working to preserve and restore ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... to the east. To the west and south, Norway is bordered by the Norwegian Sea ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- to both forms of Indian classical music, the Carnatic and Hindustani ... traditional folk arts the entire gamut of music, dance, drama, and storytelling ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- Goldwyn is remembered as a ruthless businessman whose sometimes crude ... profit organization that teaches popular music all over Los Angeles. His ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- in Europe where his taste in literature, music, and art was developed. ... His birth place and burial place is now a National Historic Landmark ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- He was also one of the early pioneers of what would later become the psychological ... Meredith! Who can define him? His style is chaos illumined by flashes ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- Toshusai Sharaku (17?? - 1801?) (Japanese: 東洲斎写楽) is widely ... but the feelings of the actor himself. It is thought that this style was ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 13:17, 27 January 2023
- The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... and the Westminster Confession of Faith, and is a member of the World Communion ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the ... percent of adults complain of tinnitus that is prolonged or present much of ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- Movement in the United States. She is perhaps best known as the sister ... techniques, beside that of Froebel. It is there that Hill started to ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... emerged from. The former Dachau concentration camp is found ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- American novelist, poet, and journalist who is now considered to be one of ... short life and small overall output, is one of the most important American ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ... and George Barr McCutcheon, asking for what would come to be known as ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... of the Mediterranean Sea, most of Slovenia is in the Black Sea drainage basin. ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- quot;), formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South ... Bogotá is the educational, cultural, commercial, administrative, ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for ... to any school of dancing. I create what the drama and the music demand ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... An Islamic nation, it is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- States. The traditional Navajo language is still largely spoken throughout ... The Navajo call themselves Diné, which is translated to mean "the ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- Cronkite's, "And that's the way it is." ... self-published chapbooks. He also composed music which he sold to background ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- Kazimir Malevich also worked in the constructivist style, though he ... The lettering of most constructivist designs is intended to create a reaction ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
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- "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic ... name and persona remains unclear, though it is widely assumed to be based ...35 KB (5,273 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2024
