Search results for "Art of the United Kingdom" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, known in the 1960s as Jackie ... Mrs. Kennedy's gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely ... Henson's success as an artist and entrepreneur was the consummation ...18 KB (2,873 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the ... The sport traces its origin to ancient times as fencing was an ancient ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 21:19, 21 June 2024
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Bohemia was unified under the Premyslid dynasty, under whose helm ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- The harmonium is a type of reed organ, a freestanding keyboard instrument ... While many of the larger European harmoniums had two manuals, the ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 05:18, 25 June 2024
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is ... and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- Records and made a major contribution to the record industry. He also co ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New ... The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- won two Academy Awards for her portrayals of American "southern belles ... In her 30-year career she made only 20 films, most of them in the ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 2023
- and ingenious. Her popular Woman in the Nineteenth Century, published ... She grew up in the Unitarian Church and became friends with Ralph ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... African American genres are the most important ethnic vernacular tradition ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
