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| Accordion The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. Accordion
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| Anton Diabelli Anton Diabelli (September 6, 1781 – April 7, 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations. Anton_Diabelli
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| Bestiary A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. Bestiary
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| Casino A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions. Casino
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| Classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as the "nylon string guitar", "gut string guitar", "flamenco guitar","spruce top" and "flat top" — is a musical instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones. Classical_guitar
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| Elf Talk:Elf
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| Elf An elf is a creature of Norse mythology. The elves were originally imagined as a race of minor nature and fertility gods, who are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests and underground places and caves, or in wells and springs. Elf
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| Freyr Freyr (sometimes anglicized Frey)The name Freyr is believed to be cognate to Gothic frauja and Old English frēa, meaning lord. It is sometimes anglicized to Frey by omitting the nominative ending. Freyr
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| Gesta Danorum Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a work of Danish history, by the 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian"). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history. Gesta_Danorum
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| Hans Christian Andersen | birthplace = Odense, Denmark Hans_Christian_Andersen
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| Inca Empire The Inca Empire (or Inka Empire) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.Terence D'Altroy, The Incas, pp. Inca_Empire
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| Johann Homann thumb|Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq[ue] Hemisphærio Cælesti Generalis Exhibitio, Nürnberg 1707 Johann_Homann
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| Kiritimati Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati. Nuclear tests were conducted on the island by the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. Kiritimati
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| Matteo Carcassi Matteo Carcassi (Florence, Italy, 1792 - Paris, France, January 16, 1853), was a famous Italian guitarist and composer. Matteo_Carcassi
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| Maimonides and Aristotle Maimonides
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| Newfoundland (island) | map_custom = yes Newfoundland_(island)
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| New Latin The term New Latin or Neo-Latin is used to describe a form the Latin language used between the end of the Medieval Latin period (c. 1500) to c. New_Latin
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| Scandinavia ScandinaviaDanish and Swedish: Skandinavien, Norwegian, Faroese and Finnish: Skandinavia, Icelandic: Skandinavía, Sami: Skadesi-suolu / Skađsuâl. is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, generally considered to consist of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with some sources also including the nations of Finland and Iceland as well. Scandinavia
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| Søren Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, Denmark) Søren_Kierkegaard
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| Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14 1546 – October 24 1601), was a Danish nobleman famed for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Hailing from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Brahe was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist. Tycho_Brahe
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