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  • embrasures, machicolations and string courses. Four gates provide access on its four sides, one Khizri gate" opening to the river. ...
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  • his first work without keyboards: his "String Quartet No. 1" was written for the Orion String Quartet and performed by them at 2004's ...
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  • sound that would be featured on an unprecedented string of 34 chart singles, 15 of which made the top 40, with sales of over 100 million worldwide. ...
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  • with a single keyboard and only one string for each note) for his seventh birthday, which they moved into the attic and he went there to play ...
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  • musician. At first joruri was accompanied by a four-string biwa (Japanese lute); after the introduction of the three-stringed, plucked samisen (or shamisen ...
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  • when it was written only for plucked string instruments (pizzicato) resulting ... 'bajo-sexto', a lower-pitched 12-string guitar. Duranguense polka ...
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  • were 16 straight wins (1912); a string of 56 scoreless innings, and a 36-7 (1.09 earned run average) mark in 1913; five wins, three of them shutouts ...
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  • voice or increasingly via an encoded message string that the central station decodes. These may connect to the regular phone system on the system ...
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  • career focused along secular lines. He had a string of R&B hits, including "Cry to Me," "If You Need Me (Call Me)," "Tonight ...
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  • he has met Odysseus who has said that whoever can string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axe-heads in a row will be able to marry Penelope ...
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  • arranger Larry Harlow. The Fania team released a string of successful singles, performing live after forming the Fania All Stars in 1971. One of their ...
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  • * Woit, Peter. Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0465092756 ...
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  • shapes. Terzi also advocated the use of a type of string alphabet, where knots were used to represent letters. [[Image:Moon-type-chart.jpg|right ...
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  • category:image wanted Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist ...
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  • was particularly precocious, and wrote two string quartets, a string octet and orchestral music before even leaving his teens. Chopin focused ...
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  • of his thrilling live performances and a string of smash hits. In spite of ... Brown followed this success with a string of singles that, along with ...
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  • * Sheep gut was the original source for natural gut string used in racquets, such as for tennis. Today, synthetic strings are much more common ...
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  • detail: a botanical specimen, a string of prayer beads, or a crystal carafe. The Concert of Angels-Nativity panel is known as one of the great ...
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  • * Serenade in C for String Orchestra, Op. 48 – 1880 :The first movement ... * String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 – 1871 * Variations on ...
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  • " that is, they sometimes shoot a string of goals that is markedly ... this is an unlikely outcome, and that a string of several heads (or making ...
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