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Benjamin Franklin Silk Dyer Ben
788 words
In 1683, a young man named Josiah Franklin came to
America in search of religious freedom. Josiah was
first a silk dyer but became a candle and soap
maker because there was no need for a silk dyer.
While Josiah was in Boston, he met a young woman
named Abiah Folger. The two fell in love and
decided to get married. Josiah had 5 children from
a previous marriage, but he and Abiah had 10
children together, 4 girls and 6 boys. The
youngest of the 15 surviving children was named
Benjamin Franklin. Be...
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Cycles Per Second Sound Waves
739 words
Resonance and Sound Physics and Music Since sound
is the medium of music, most of the physics of
music is the physics of sound. It's important to
remember that sound waves are compression waves.
You can imitate a compression wave by stretching
out a slinky (you do have a slinky, don't you? )
and flicking your finger against a coil at the
end. Sound waves are not like the waves on the
ocean or the waves you get by waving a
stretched-out rope. Take a tuning fork (you do
have a tuning fork, don't y...
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John F Kennedy Profiles In Courage
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Jacqueline Lee
Bouvier was born on July 28 th, 1929 in East
Hampton, Long Island. Jacqueline's mother was
Janet Lee Bouvier, a highly ambitious horseback
rider. Jacqueline was nicknamed Jackie after her
father, Jack Bouvier. Young Jackie's parents were
a very well off coupled. Her father had an
estimated fortune of 7 million dollars and Janet
came from a wealthy family also, her father had
been chairman of the board of Chase National Bank.
Asides for the Bouvie...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
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A remarkable musician and composer, whose legend
continues to grow more than two centuries after
his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in
Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four,
he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of
musical memory and ear-sophistication that his
father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and
composer in his own right) decided to sign young
Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from
day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled
musical prodigy gr...
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Config Sys Ms Dos
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... eating, AUTO, automatically loads these device
drivers. The AUTO setting also automatically uses
the BUFFERSHIGH, FILESHIGH, FCBSHIGH,
LASTDRIVEHIGH, and STACKSHIGH commands, whether
the -HIGH form of the command is used or not. If
you specify the NOAUTO parameter, you must load
these device drivers and use the -HIGH form of the
above commands in order to take advantage of them.
This command defines parameters for devices such
as disk and tape drives when you start MS-DOS. You
can use this c...
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Programming Language X X
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Each programming language presents a particular
world view in the features it allows, supports,
and forbids. This series of articles describes the
world view of the Scheme Programming Language.
This view contains many elements desired in a
modern programming language: multi-paradigm
support, comparable, reusable abstractions,
ability to create languages specialized for
particular applications, clean separation of the
generic and the implementation specific, and
scalability from stand alone utili...
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Lady Lay Your Body Lay Your Body Album
803 words
Carl Thomas gained plenty of experience -- musical
and otherwise -- over the course of his lifetime.
A native of Chicago's projects, Carl credits three
forces for steering him towards music: church,
school, and avoiding gang activity. From a young
age, he knew he'd make his mark in music. In
addition to the R and B and hip-hop he grew up
with, he also broadened his tastes to include such
artists as Sting, Roberta Flack, and James Taylor.
"It's all about choices, he says. Moreover, the
use of sam...
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Credited With Inventing Numbers In Parentheses Refer Strings
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INTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical
instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the
clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs
from its predecessors principally in the
introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that
allows the player to modify the intensity of sound
by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers.
For this reason the earliest known model (1709)
was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte
(Italian for "harpsichord with soft and loud"). It
was built by Bartolomeo ...
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Caste System B C
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Buddha Indian philosopher and the founder of
Buddhism, born in Lumbini, Nepal. He was these of
the head of the Sakya warrior caste, with the
private name of Siddhartha; in later life has
known also as Sakyamuni (Sage of the Sakyas). The
name Gautama Buddha is a combination of the family
name Gautama and the appellation Buddha, meaning
Enlightened One. All the surviving accounts of
Buddha's life were written many years after his
death by idealizing followers rather than by
objective historians. C...
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20 Th Century Advances In Technology
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Over the years film has meant many different
things to many different types of people. Cultures
have been forever changed due to certain films
being made. One of the things that has maintained
films to stay appealing to audiences are the
continuing advances in technology that keep films
interesting, as well as challenge filmmakers to
constantly develop new ideas. I will show how
technology and the use therein contributes to film
and the creative aspect that goes into producing a
product that app...
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Planets Revolve Copernican Theory
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... an accelerating automobile feel the force of
the seat against their backs overcoming their
inertia so as to increase their velocity. As the
car decelerates, the passengers tend to continue
in motion and lurch forward. If the car turns a
corner, then a package on the car seat will slide
across the seat as the inertia of the package
causes it to continue moving in a straight line.
Any body spinning on its axis, such as a flywheel,
exhibits rotational inertia, a resistance to
change of its rota...
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Plastic Bottles Four Foot
694 words
Garbage Laws, a Narrative Essay The town of
Kabawaga, where I live, has some very strict
garbage bylaws that were first introduced some ten
years ago in an effort to use new recycling
guidelines and to save money as authorities at
that time stated that the landfills were almost at
capacity. And what started out as a conservation
measure has now escalated into a stack of garbage
laws for our community. The town claimed that it
was progressing as each year saw a new bylaw
regulating garbage come i...
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Penelope Was Smart Waiting For Her Husband Odysseus
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Odyssey The major theme of Odyssey is loyalty. It
teaches that those who have patience will be
rewarded. Penelope had many problems when Odysseus
had left. Women did not have many rights and were
not very important. Women needed men to provide
money and for protection. Women had it very hard
living without a man. Most women during this time
would have chosen one of the suitors that tried to
win her favors. This temptation to choose a new
man in her life went on for over a decade.
Penelope's loya...
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Elizabethan Era Queen Elizabeth
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The Sounds of Elizabethan Times The Elizabethan
Era was a time when music and art were growing
more and more each day. This time period, also
known as the English Renaissance, is still well
known for its styles and sound of music. Queen
Elizabeth herself was a musician, and played both
the lute and the virginal. It was thought that the
virginal was named after Elizabeth, the Virgin
Queen. Other instruments were popular during this
time period were the spinet and the viol. All of
these are string...
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Middle Section Is Dark Gray Section Is Dark Gray Black
662 words
Robert Rauschenburg is an American artist famous
for experimenting with a variety of materials,
techniques, media, and styles. His search for new
forms of expression throughout his career inspired
many artists in the United States and Europe.
Rauschenburg was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He
first attracted attention in the early 1960 s with
all-white and all-black paintings. He then turned
to combines, or assemblages, which combined
painting with everyday objects. One combine called
Bed consisted...
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Musical Composition Classical Period
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The classical period (1750? 1810) 1750? 1810 is
what we call the classical period, and really any
music not composed in this era is not classical
music. Most of the well known classical composers
come from this time such as Haydn, Mozart and
Beethoven who I have written about know. Here are
some short biographies of their lives. Franz Josef
Haydn (1732 - 1809) In Haydn? s life he wrote 108
symphonies for 36 weeks starting when he was 27.
Most, if not all of Haydn? s music was inspired
such as hi...
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Doesn Acute T Eyes
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From the opening stages of Henry IV, the
impression of Hal is not a good one. His father,
King Henry, makes reference to him in the first
scene and compares him to Hotspur, who, in the
king´ s eyes, is much more worthy of the
throne of England: O, that it could be prov´
d That some night-tripping fairy had
exchange´ d In cradle-clothes our children
where they lay... Then I would have his Harry, and
he mine This leaves the audience with a negative
view of Hal, who we have not ye...
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Gained Popularity North Africa
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ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF THE DULCIMER The dulcimer
is a member of the string family. It is further
categorized into the Psaltrey family, a group of
instruments that are comprised of strings
stretched across a frame and played by plucking or
drumming. The only difference, in fact, between
the dulcimer and the paltry is the fact that one
is plucked and the other is drummed. The dulcimer
family is divided into two sections. The dulcimers
with keys and dulcimers without keys. A dulcimer
with keys woul...
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Rock N Roll 20 Th Century
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With the start of the 20 th century music began to
play a huge part in the rapidly maturing United
States. The music of the 20 th century was not
only theyre to entertain the people but it was
more. It was used now to influence and manipulate
the listeners, the artists had a goal to entertain
and to enlighten the listener so that they could
get their messages heard. Music is one of the best
ways to advertise and to expand ideas, and many
artists knew this. Music rapidly influenced every
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Drop Out Of School Hundreds Of Years
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Language changes with history and time. Our
perception of words changes. Everything changes,
from cooking with a fire to cooking with a
microwave. Some examples of the ways language
changes are through accents, books, slang,
influential people, and historical events. Accents
show development of culture over time, maybe
through a historical event, such as a new country
being found. The people living there might adopt
the culture of the founders. Language also
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