368 résultats pour "rock"
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Asia - Geography.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Asia - History.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Elvis Presley
pèlerinage pour ses admirateurs du monde entier. Chaque jour des milliers de personnes se recueillent sur sa tombe, et visitent la dernière retraite de la star du rock'n roll. 2
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Patti Smith
Partons maintenant pour New York, nous sommes en 1967 dans ce qu on appelle « les trente glorieuses. » les états unis sont en ébullition que ce soit sur le plan économique, politique et musical. Les Velvet Underground sortent un des albums des plus mythiques du Rock'n Roll « the velvet Underground and Nico », produit par Andy Warhol avec la participation de Nico, actrice, chanteuse et mannequin Allemande. le 1 juin , les Beatles sortent l'album "Sergeant Pepper C'est le ...
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A TRAMP'S SUMMER VACATION
who would not work if we bad the chance. However true this might be as applied to us in a moral sense, it certainly was not a literai fact, for we were small men. People who, not seeing us, would read this remark in the local paper, would be misled as to our personal appearance. W. H.- DA VIES, The autobiography of a super tramp. 1. Commentaire dirigé 1) Pick out details in the text showing that there really are "delightful w...
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Article de presse: La question noire aux Etats-Unis
américaine qui l'a suivie leur ont ouvert, même dans les Etats du Sud, les portes de nombreuses professions qui leur étaientautrefois interdites. Leur niveau de vie s'est en conséquence très vite relevé, et leur revenu moyen atteint aujourd'hui 55 % decelui des Blancs. Cette prospérité a d'ailleurs développé chez eux le désir et la volonté d'obtenir une véritable égalité en usant davantage de leursdroits politiques et d'une législation qui leur est de plus en plus favorable. La population...
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Theseus - Mythology.
claim his birthright from his father, the king. Aethra took Theseus, when he was 16, to the rock, which the lad lifted easily, and sent him on his way to Athens. Theseus had many adventures on his journey and entered Athens as a hero. Warmly welcomed by his father, Theseus then went on to his greatest adventure, the slaying of the Minotaur, the dreaded bullmonster of King Minos of Crete. Every year, Minos demanded seven men and seven maids from Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, thus bring...
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Aves de corral - ciencias de la naturaleza.
La gallina es uno de los primeros animales domésticos que se mencionan en la historia escrita. Se hace referencia al animal en antiguos documentos chinos que indican que“esta criatura de Occidente” había sido introducida en China hacia el año 1400 a.C. En tallas babilónicas del año 600 a.C. aparecen gallinas, que son también mencionadaspor los escritores griegos primitivos, en especial por el dramaturgo Aristófanes en el año 400 a.C. Los romanos la consideraban un animal consagrado a Marte, su d...
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Python (snake) - biology.
pythons are prey for monitor lizards, crocodiles, storks, eagles, and predatory mammals ranging from hyenas to leopards and other cats depending on the region. V PYTHONS AND HUMANS Modern humans have lived alongside pythons for thousands of years. The giant species have been treated with both reverence and fear. Pythons have been widelyassociated with fertility, water, and the Earth. Some African tribes have worshiped pythons as protective spirits. Among Aboriginal Australians the Rainbow Serpe...
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Great Lakes - Geography.
of 1972 and 1978, have focused on water-quality problems in the Great Lakes. The International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes, established under the BoundaryWaters Treaty, implements and oversees these agreements and has limited authority to regulate obstructions or diversions of boundary waters that would affect thenatural level or flow of lake waters. B Exotic Species The fish populations of the lakes have changed dramatically in the 20th century; changes were wrought at first by overfis...
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was known not only as a masterful painter but as an architect, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.
and conservation program made use of the latest technology to reverse some of the damage. Although much of the original surface is gone, the majesty of thecomposition and the penetrating characterization of the figures give a fleeting vision of its vanished splendor. The Virgin of the RocksThe Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was actually painted twice. The first version, done in 1485, wascommissioned to be an altarpiece but was evidently rejected. That painting now hangs in the Louvre,...
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Air - chemistry.
lighting systems, fertilizers, and semiconductors (substances used to make the chips in computers, calculators, televisions, microwave ovens, and many other electronicdevices). A Oxygen More than half of the oxygen produced in the United States is used by the steel industry, which injects the gas into basic oxygen furnaces to heat and produce steel(see Iron and Steel Manufacture: Basic Oxygen Process ). Metalworkers also combine oxygen with acetylene to produce high-temperature torch flames th...
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Antarctica - geography.
The geographic South Pole lies near the center of the continent in East Antarctica. This point is where all map lines of longitude converge at the southern end ofEarth’s axis of rotation. Distinct from the geographic south pole is the south magnetic pole, where the lines of force of Earth’s magnetic field emerge vertically,arching upward over the planet to enter Earth again at the north magnetic pole. The south-seeking end of a compass needle points to the south magnetic pole. Thesouth magnetic...
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Dallas (Texas) - geography.
VI RECREATION Dallas contains more than 400 parks that cover a total of about 20,000 hectares (about 50,000 acres). Notable parks include Marsalis Park, which contains the DallasZoo, and the parks surrounding White Rock Lake, Bachman Lake, and Lake Cliff. City-owned greenbelts parallel White Rock Creek, Turtle Creek, and the Trinity River.Fair Park contains a number of museums, the city aquarium, and the Cotton Bowl stadium (the site of the annual Cotton Bowl college football game), as well as...
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Natural Satellite - astronomy.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, also has few impact craters. Although icy volcanism from water and ammonia may occur along with some tectonic activity, Titan’s youngsurface is most likely the result of weather processes. Titan’s dense, cold atmosphere precipitates particles of complex organic molecules that accumulate as dunes andmountains. Methane rain erodes the surface and creates lakes at the moon’s poles. Triton’s young surface also may result from processes in its atmosphere, as well aserupt...
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Gemstones.
In the late 1960s a method was developed for “growing” diamonds by heating a diamond particle to a high temperature and subjecting it to methane gas. The gasdecomposes into carbon atoms, which adhere to the diamond crystal. The crystal structure of the enlarged diamond is identical to that of a natural diamond. Diamondsof about 1 carat (200 mg or 0.007 oz) have been produced by this method, but their cost is still considerably higher than that of naturally occurring diamonds. Sapphires are made...
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Invertebrate - biology.
animals with a five-pointed design. They live in the sea and move with the help of tiny fluid-filled feet—another feature found nowhere else in the animal world. Zoologists recognize several different groups of worms. The phylum known as flatworms contains the simplest animals possessing heads. Nerves and sense organs areconcentrated in the head. Most flatworms are paper-thin and live in a variety of wet or damp habitats, including the digestive systems of other animals. Roundwormsrepresent anot...
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Invertebrate - biology.
animals with a five-pointed design. They live in the sea and move with the help of tiny fluid-filled feet—another feature found nowhere else in the animal world. Zoologists recognize several different groups of worms. The phylum known as flatworms contains the simplest animals possessing heads. Nerves and sense organs areconcentrated in the head. Most flatworms are paper-thin and live in a variety of wet or damp habitats, including the digestive systems of other animals. Roundwormsrepresent anot...
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Fish - biology.
pectoral fins provide fine movements, add forward thrust, or, together with the pelvic fins, serve as brakes. Typically, fins consist of a thin membrane stretched over afanlike series of thin rods called spines or rays. Most fish breathe underwater with the help of special respiratory organs called gills. Gills are made of a series of thin sheets or filaments through which blood circulates.As water moves into a fish’s mouth and passes over the gills, dissolved oxygen passes across the thin gill...
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Serbia - country.
Minority groups speak their own languages, such as Albanian and Hungarian. Bosniaks generally speak Bosnian and write it with the Latin alphabet. Serbs are by tradition Orthodox Christians. The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches also have adherents in Serbia. Most of the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo areSunni Muslims ( see Sunni Islam), as are the Bosniaks of the Sandžak region. Bosniaks are descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam in the 15th and 16th centuries. B Education The leading in...
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Amphibian (animal) - biology.
strong enough to kill potential predators. C Hearing, Vision, and Vocalizations Amphibians rely on their senses to find food and evade predators. Amphibians lack external ears but have well-developed internal ears. Hearing is most acute in frogs,which typically have a middle ear cavity for transferring sound vibrations from the eardrum, or tympanum, to the inner ear. Frogs and toads also use their keen hearingin communicating with one another. Using a true voice box, or larynx, and a large, exp...
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Astrobiology - astronomy.
water to help reactions along. American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey tested part of Oparin and Haldane’s hypothesis in the early 1950s by simulating conditions of the early Earth. In whathas become known as the Miller-Urey experiment, the two scientists connected two flasks with a loop of glass tubing that allowed the gases to pass between the flasks.They filled the upper flask with methane, ammonia, and hydrogen—components thought to have been in the early atmosphere. They filled the...
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Turtle.
Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...
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Turtle - biology.
Turtles use their jaws to cut and handle food. Instead of teeth, a turtle’s upper and lower jaws are covered by horny ridges, similar to a bird’s beak. Meat-eating turtlescommonly have knife-sharp ridges for slicing through their prey. Plant-eating turtles often have ridges with serrated edges that help them cut through tough plants.Turtles use their tongues in swallowing food, but unlike many other reptiles, such as chameleons, they cannot stick out their tongues to capture food. C Limb Structu...
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Modern Art
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American Gothic
American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.
while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...
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Kentucky - geography.
The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...
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Kentucky - USA History.
The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...
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Afghanistan - country.
D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...
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Brazil - country.
occasional droughts. Brazil contains a wealth of mineral and plant resources that have not yet been fully explored. It possesses some of the world’s largest deposits of iron ore and containsrich deposits of many other minerals, including gold and copper. Brazil’s fossil fuel resources are modest, but this limitation is offset by the considerable hydroelectricpotential of the nation’s many rivers. Although Brazil is an important producer of tropical crops, areas of highly fertile land are limited...
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Les Réserves naturelles d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande
ploitation minièr e ou f orestiè re y sont interdites. On trou ve dans ces zones protégées des par cs nationaux équipés d 'infrastru ctur es touristiqu es dans la mesure où elles ne nuisent pas à l'envi ronnement , mais auss i des réserv es scienti fiqu es totalement interdites au public . En Nouve lle-Zé land e, 28390 km -, soit 10,5 % du te rritoir e, sont totalement protégés. Les sites du patrimoine mondial de l'humanité En 1994, l'Aus...
- Rocky Mountains - geography.
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Clinton, George.
rock, comme producteur (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primal Scream) ou comme chanteur (Ice Cube, OutKast) ; en outre, de nombreux rappeurs, parmi lesquels Dr. Dre ou Snoop Doggy Dog, revendiquent son influence. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.
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Grand oral du bac : Arts et Culture LE JAZZ
Le jazz Le trompettiste Joe «King » Oli ver (1885- 1938) est le musicien le plus célèbr e de ces années-là. Le jazz se fait rapidement une renommée, même si le premier enregistr ement ne date que de 1917 . Le groupe Original Dixieland Jazz Band du Blanc Nick La Rocca (1889-19 61) enregistre Livery Stable Blues, tandis que le Dixieland Jazz Band devient célèbre avec One Step (1917). ' Bien qu'issu d'une famille de musiciens, Sidney Bechet (1891...
- Erosion.
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Le grunge
envahissant. Hostiles au pouvoir de l'argent, les musiciens grunge, comme leurs prédécesseurs punk, se sentent en effet discrédités lorsque leurs disques accèdent au statut d’albums cultes et que l'industrie des accessoires de la mode lance artificiellement, dès 1992, ses lignes de vêtements « estampillés » grunge. Ainsi, les idéaux grunge, déjà très édulcorés au moment de la mort de Kurt Cobain, ne résistent pas à la disparition de la figure de proue du mouvement, qui s’é...
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Mountain.
includes the highest mountains found on each continent. See Erosion; Geology; Volcano. For additional information, see separate articles on most mountains and mountain systems mentioned. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Mountain - geography.
includes the highest mountains found on each continent. See Erosion; Geology; Volcano. For additional information, see separate articles on most mountains and mountain systems mentioned. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Mountain - Geography.
includes the highest mountains found on each continent. See Erosion; Geology; Volcano. For additional information, see separate articles on most mountains and mountain systems mentioned. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Mars Pathfinder - astronomy.
Pathfinder and Sojourner also gathered engineering data for planning future Mars missions. Pathfinder entered Mars's atmosphere without first stopping in Mars orbit,an approach likely to be used by future landers, and its previously untried airbag system performed flawlessly. Sojourner needed about three months to traverse lessthan 90 m (less than 300 ft), but demonstrated that rovers can explore Mars. Engineers predict that the next generation of Mars rovers will be able to travel thousandsof k...
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pop, musique
3.2 La pop après les Beatles Dans le sillage des Beatles, dont l’album Rubber Soul (1965) fixe les canons de la pop, s’engouffrent des groupes comme Herman’s Hermits, Spencer Davis Group ou Dave Clark Five. Parallèlement, d’autres groupes tentent de privilégier une approche plus noire de la musique pop, plus fidèle à ses lointaines origines blues : il s’agit notamment des Rolling Stones et des Animals d’Eric Burdon. Face à cette explosion de créativité, la réaction améric...
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Popular Music
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Satchmo Sings "Back O' Town Blues"
One of the founders of instrumental jazz music, American Louis Armstrong, known as Satchmo, also profoundly influenced
vocal jazz and popular song.
disseminating popular music until the 1920s remained printed sheet music. By the late 19th century, the music-publishing business was centralized in New York City,particularly in an area of lower Manhattan called Tin Pan Alley. “After the Ball” (1892) by Charles K. Harris, the first popular song to sell 1 million copies—in this case, ofsheet music—inspired rapid growth in the music-publishing industry. Composers were hired to rapidly produce popular songs by the dozens, and the techniques ofFost...
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Beatles (les)
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Les Fiches de Monsieur Cinéma Histoire Illustrée du Cinéma Mondial LES BEATLES Nés tous les quatre à Liverpool (G.-B.), John Winston Lennon (9 octobre 1940-8 décembre 1980), James Paul McCartney (18 juin 1942), George Harrison (25 février 1943) et Richard Starkey dit Ringo Starr (7 juillet 1940) passeront à la postérité, le 11 septembre 1962, en formant les Beatles. Après« Love me do», la« Beatlema nia,, bat son...
- Continent - Geography.
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Dissertation : Arlequin Poli par l’amour.
de l’âme de ce petit être simple d’esprit. On remarque alors un étrange élément de décor situé à jardin : une sorte de machine avec une poignée. La fée baisse cette poignée et surgit alors sur scène un piano autour duquel s’attroupent des chanteurs. On assiste ici à un moment chanté, sous un jeu de lumière intéressant qui meuble le plateau en le colorant de différentes couleurs chaudes : rouge, jaune, orange. Cela donne un petit aspect de comédies musicales et permet de montrer le dou...
- La techno
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Arts et Culture LE BLUES
Le blues ! La voix puissante et envoûtante A de Bessie Smith (1894-1937) lui valut te titre d'impératrice du blues. Son interprétation de Saint Louis Blues (1925) reste une version de référence. Structure, enchaînement harmonique et blue notes se retrouvent dans la quasi-totalité des mor ceaux. De ce fait, le seul élément qui permette de distinguer un blues d'un autre est la ligne mélodique qui vient coiffer la base rythmique et harmonique....
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Sécession (guerre de).
États-Unis - la Bataille de Gettysburg (1er-3 juillet 1863), page 1758, volume 4 Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats abolitionniste Alabama Amérique du Nord - Histoire - L'Amérique du Nord, du XIXe siècle à nos jours Autant en emporte le vent carpetbagger Davis Jefferson esclavage États-Unis - Histoire - De l'indépendance à la guerre de Sécession Gettysburg Grant Ulysses Simpson Ku Klux Klan Lee Robert Edward Lincoln Abraham Little Rock nord...
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Popular and Social Dance
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The Cakewalk
The cakewalk, a dance of African American origin, was intended to lampoon high-strutting whites at fancy dress balls.
master. The dance manuals published between 1550 and 1630, written by Thoinot Arbeau of France, Cesare Negri of Italy, and other dancing masters, describe dances such asthe pavane, galliard, allemande, courante, saltarello, and volta, as well as circular branles and progressive longways dances (for a line of couples, in which each couplerepeats the pattern with one new couple after another; see Country Dance). The sense of order and harmony so important during the Renaissance gave rise to forma...
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Volcano.
before eruption. Very violent explosive eruptions are called Plinian eruptions, after Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder. These eruptions can last for several hours to daysand eject a large amount of pyroclastic material. Some volcanoes can produce much more energetic eruptions that eject materials farther from the vents because oftheir andesitic and dacitic composition. Andesitic and dacitic lava is generally thicker than basaltic lava. Stiff lava generally produces more-explosive eruptions. B No...
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Country Music
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Willie Nelson
Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits,
including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.
Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...