... originated (we think) in the twelfth century when one or two pipes were added to a key, usually tuned to a fifth and octave or third and tenth; it is also speculated that this practice helped spark harmony in music composition. (Hopkins & Rimbault 36-8) During this time the pedal began receiving its own set of stops separate from those of the other manuals. At this ... point in the organ's history, development was fairly uniform throughout Europe due mainly to the unrestricted travel of organ builders and musicians whose input would ... added numerous stops, some ranging in size from 32...

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... just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World War One. Every tension can be attributed to one of four causes, nationalism, system of military alliances, military build up and colonial competition. If these tensions were gunpowder then the spark that ignited them was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in ... June 1914. The assassination gave Austria-Hungary the ideal excuse to stop Serbian ... ambitions once and for all. The tensions before World War One can be largely attributed to the rise of nationalism thro...

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... they were stronger. Britain signed an agreement with France in 1904 and another with Russia in 1907. 1900 is the time tension began to show and increased. Anglo-German naval rivalry is an example when Germany had plans to build a powerful navy, therefore ... . With all this in mind it created a lot of stress and strain from all countries, with Germany's main worry of the "encirclement" so it devised the Schlieffen Plan. The Schlieffen Plan was also devised because in 1914 war seemed very likely especially with Russia. If that was to happen Germany assumed ... was forced to withdraw tro...

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... 1789 and that year was just the last string where the public just all out revolted. The American Revolution played a crucial role in the French Revolution. The French Revolution occurred about twenty years after America overcame the British to win their freedom. Before this, nobody thought it was possible to overcome such a huge power as supported in the quote in document 3 "the spark that changed thought into action was ... supplied by the Declaration of American independence...The American example caused the Revolution to break out". This quote shows that the American Revolution gave ...

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... but a storm blew into Philadelphia and obstructed his view. Later, he discovered that people in Boston, miles away were able to view the eclipse before the storm arrived. Benjamin theorized that the direction of the wind is not necessarily the direction of the storm's movement, which is a proved correct statement. In 1752, Benjamin's well-known kite experiment helped prove that electricity existed in storm ... clouds. Electricity traveled down the kite string to a key that was attached to it. Benjamin was able to make a spark jump between his knuckle and the key, while his ... son Will...

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... so there might be more causes than what we know now. In this essay I would discuss the main causes of the war -the ones that were discussed in the textbook. In the time before the war's outbreak (before 1914-in the beginning of the century) the world was separated into big empires that had colonies around the world (European countries ruled most of Africa). There were fights and disagreements between ... arm themselves and ready for war, just in case it would break). In the beginning of the century Britain was the largest empire in the world, it also had the largest navy. The navy was so...

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... this feud; they didn't really want to waste many ships for nothing. This caused a lot of tension between the two countries. This was a big factor in the breaking-out of World War I. To start a war you need a trigger to spark all the hatred that has been brewing up for a long time. The trigger for World War I happened in Bosnia on 29th May 1914. This was ... the main short term cause of war breaking out. On the day of the Serbian national day, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ... -Hungary visited Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia with his wife The Duchess of Hohenburg on an ... ...

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