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Baltic Sea
(Encyclopedia) Baltic Sea, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.163,000 sq mi (422,170 sq km), including the Kattegat strait, its northwestern extension. The Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt connect the…Walt Whitman: I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the OrganI heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church, Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your…Stephen Crane: "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
"I have heard the sunset song of the birches, "A white melody in the silence, "I have seen a quarrel of the pines. "At nightfall "The little grasses have rushed by me "With the wind men. "…Poems by Emily Dickinson: Dying ("I heard a fly buzz")
by EmilyDickinsonXLVXLVIIDying Dying I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had…75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Voice Heard Again
A team of computer scientists and paleontologists from Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Museum has recreated the sound that a Parasaurolophus…Howe, Irving
(Encyclopedia) Howe, Irving, 1920–93, American literary and social critic, b. New York City. From his early days as a Trotskyist to his later (and lifelong) position as a democratic socialist, Howe…Vachel Lindsay: The Chinese Nightingale
The Chinese NightingaleVachel Lindsay"How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead — Ended license, lust and play: Why do you iron the night away? Your big…tonality
(Encyclopedia) tonalitytonalitytōnălˈĭtē [key], in music, quality by which all tones of a composition are heard in relation to a central tone called the keynote or tonic. In music that has harmony…Wheelwright, John
(Encyclopedia) Wheelwright, John, c.1592–1679, American Puritan clergyman, founder of Exeter, N.H., b. Lincolnshire, England. He studied at Cambridge and was vicar (1623–33) of Bilsby. Suspended by…tone
(Encyclopedia) tone. In music, a tone is distinguished from noise by its definite pitch, caused by the regularity of the vibrations which produce it. Any tone possesses the attributes of pitch,…Trending
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