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Hindu music

(Encyclopedia) Hindu music. The music of India is entirely monodic. To Westerners it is the most accessible of all Asian musical cultures. Its tonal system divides the octave into 22 segments called…

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Marian Wright EdelmanJohn EdwardsJohn EhrlichmanMamie Geneva Doud EisenhowerEleanor of AquitaineJoycelyn Jones EldersDaniel EllsbergOlaudah EquianoMarch Fong EuDonald EvansMedgar EversMyrlie…

Asian Food Primer: Introduction

A quick guide to Asian foods by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific…

Notable Asian Americans, A-Z

Grace ParkBiographies ofNotable Asian Pacific AmericansA-Z ListGovernment Officials and PoliticiansBusiness and Media LeadersAthletes & Sports PersonalitiesScientistsEntertainers:…

2005 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review…

Mare Winningham

Mare Winninghamactress, singerBorn: 5/6/1959Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona Winningham's feature film debut was in One-Trick Pony (1980), but her show business debut was on The Gong Show at the age of…

Mare Winningham Biography

Mare Winninghamactress, singerBorn: 5/6/1959Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona Winningham's feature film debut was in One-Trick Pony (1980), but her show business debut was on The Gong Show at the age of…

Balinese music

(Encyclopedia) Balinese music represents, to a large extent, a survival of the pre-Islamic music of Java. It was taken to Bali by Hindu Javanese in the 15th cent. and uses the tonal systems of…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 23

Part 23Endless unfolding of words of ages! And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time…

Chinese art

(Encyclopedia) Chinese art, works of art produced in the vast geographical region of China. It the oldest art in the world and has its origins in remote antiquity. (For the history of Chinese…