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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from different regions throughout Europe, Northern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Caucasus.

Japan - United Kingdom Relations

This page describes the history of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Japan which began in 1600 with the arrival of William Adams (Adams the Pilot, Miura Anjin) on the shores of Ky sh at Usuki in ita Prefecture. During the Sakoku period (1641 1853), there were no relations between the two countries, but the treaty of 1854 saw the resumption of ties which, despite a hiatus during the Second World War, remain very strong up until the present day.

Hollywood Squares

The Hollywood Squares is an American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money (cash) and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by an entertainer (or "star") seated at a desk and facing the contestants.

Paul Kane

Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. A largely self-educated artist, Kane grew up in Toronto (then known as York) and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe.

Crunk

Crunk is a fusion genre of hip hop music and electro that originated alongside the concept of crunk, meaning out-of- control crowd action. Crunk originated in the mid to late 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003 - 2004, and there are a few crunk songs as of 2009.

Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. (born April 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads.

Environmental issues with energy

There are many environmental issues with energy with the largest being climate change due predominantly to the burning of fossil fuels and the direct impact of greenhouse gases on the Earths environment. In recent years there has been a trend towards the use of various renewable energy sources.

Ierapetra

Ierapetra is a municipality and a town in the east of the Greek island of Crete, in the prefecture of Lasithi. The municipality has an area of 394.

Baroque trumpet

A "lip-vibrated aerophone," the baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. A baroque trumpet is a brass instrument used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of a period instrument.

Bertone

Gruppo Bertone is an Italian automobile company, which has specialized in car styling, coachbuilding and manufacturing. Bertone styling is distinctive, with most cars having a strong "family resemblance" even if badged by different manufacturers.

Kashmiri Pandit

Kashmiri Pandit refers to a person who belongs to a sect of Hindu Pandits who originate from the Kashmir region in the Indian subcontinent.

History of rugby league

The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Northern England when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from the established Rugby Football Union to administer its own competition. Similar schisms started occurring later in Australia and New Zealand in 1907, and the new governing bodies gradually changed the rules of their sport, creating a new professional form of rugby football.

Akeakamai

Akeakamai (c 1976 - November 2, 2003) was a female Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, who along with a companion female dolphin named Phoenix, as well as tankmates Elele and Hiapo, were the subjects of Louis Herman's animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. The most well known paper is the original work described in Herman, Richards, & Wolz (1984).

Methanol fuel

Methanol has been proposed as a fuel for internal combustion and other engines, mainly in combination with gasoline. Methanol fuel has received less attention than ethanol fuel as an alternative to petroleum based fuels.

Geology of Tasmania

Tasmania has a complex geological history, with the world's biggest exposure of diabase, or dolerite. The rock record contains representatives of each period of the Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cainozoic eras.

Media Studies

Media studies is an academic discipline that deals with the content, history and effects of various media, in particular, the 'mass media'. The subject varies greatly in theoretical and methodological focus, but may be broadly divided into three interrelated areas: the critique of artistic styles and aesthetic forms (genre, narrative, and so on), the study of the production process (e.

Authoritarian Personality

The authoritarian personality is an influential theory of personality developed by University of California, Berkeley psychologists, Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford in their 1950 book of the same name.

Kreutz Sungrazers

The Kreutz Sungrazers are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.They are believed to be fragments of one large comet that broke up several centuries ago and are named for German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first demonstrated that they were related.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

Herbert A. Hauptman

Herbert Aaron Hauptman is a world renowned American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.

Golden Age Hip Hop

Hip hop's "golden age" (or "golden era") is a name given to a period in mainstream hip hop usually cited as the late 1980s to the 1990s said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence. There were strong themes of Afrocentricity and political militancy, while the music was experimental and the sampling, eclectic.

Equity (economics)

Equity is the concept or idea of fairness in economics, particularly as to taxation or welfare economics.

Cross Section (Physics)

In nuclear and particle physics, the concept of a cross section is used to express the likelihood of interaction between particles.When particles are thrown against a foil made of a certain substance, the cross section is a hypothetical area measure around the target particles that represents a surface.

Doosan Group

Doosan Group is a South Korean conglomerate quoted on the Korea Stock Exchange. Doosan has been placed 471st in the Fortune 2009.

Donald Carcieri

Donald L. "Don" Carcieri (ka-CHYAIR-ee) (born December 16, 1942) is the current Governor of the U.

Katy Perry Discography

The discography of Katy Perry, an American pop rock singer, consists of two studio albums, five singles and one extended play. Perry began her career using her birth name, Katy Hudson, in 2001.

10.5 (TV Miniseries)

10.5 is a 2004 disaster film directed by John Lafia which aired as a television miniseries in the United States on May 2, 2004 and May 3, 2004.

Lone Star (1996 Film)

Lone Star (1996) is an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles and set in a small town in Texas. It features Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey and deals with a sheriff's investigation into who murdered one of his predecessors.

Maiden Castle, Dorset

Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort 2.5 kilometres (1.

Downtown, Providence, Rhode Island

Downtown, also known as Downcity, is the central economic, political, and cultural district of the city of Providence, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the east by Canal Street and the Providence River, to the north by Smith Street, to the west by Interstate 95, and to the south by Henderson Street.

Accumulation by Dispossession

Accumulation by dispossession is a concept presented by the Marxist academic David Harvey, which defines the neoliberal changes in many western nations, from the 1970s and to the present day, as being guided mainly by four practices. These are privatization, financialization, management and manipulation of crises, and state redistributions.

Green Building on College Campuses

Green building on college campuses is the purposeful construction of buildings on college campuses that decreases resource usage in both the building process and also the future use of the building. The goal is to reduce CO2 emissions, energy use, and water use, while creating an atmosphere where students can be healthy and learn.

ANZAC spirit

The Anzac spirit or Anzac legend is a concept which suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers possess shared characteristics specifically the qualities those soldiers are believed to have shown on the battlefield in World War I. These qualities cluster around several ideas, including endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour,larrikinism, and mateship.

Justin Timberlake Discography

The discography of American singer Justin Timberlake consists in two studio albums, eleven singles each single with one respective music video and three DVDs on Jive Records. After a period of hiatus in his pop boy band 'N Sync, Timberlake began to work in his solo career.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A.

Guerre d'Indochine

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was one of the founders of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend.

E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society.

European Climate Change Programme

The European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) was launched in June 2000 by the European Union's European Commission. The goal of the ECCP is to identify, develop and implement all the necessary elements of an EU strategy to implement the Kyoto Protocol.

Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist, and professor most notably at Carnegie Mellon University whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science. With almost a thousand very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century.