... "The Cristofori piano was wing-shaped like our grand pianos, with a curved body and a lid that could be raised" (Hamilton). There were also square pianos in which the strings ran from left to right as on the clavichord. And by 1800, there were upright pianos whose strings ran perpendicular to the ... first satisfactory uprights were finally invented (Hamilton). When German builders tried to apply the traditional rectangular form of the clavichord to the piano-forte, the Square Grand Piano evolved. It was popular up until 1900 when the piano continually became more powerful and responsive...

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... if you remain in the town you will eventually be reinstated. So that's when I left."" "Two days later the students told me that there was to be a gathering in the square. They had put up a big platform with banners and everything. They said the fascists were coming, and we must be there to hear what they said and to see what ... and frightened, including people I thought were strong. And I got this fear from them. I had no real idea what Hitler was. I'd seen these two brown shirts, but that was all."" "The square was full and the police came on horseback and drove us back into the side ...

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... the English word for the German state of Bayern. Bavaria is located in the southeastern corner of Germany. About 11,449 thousand people live in the approximately 27,238 square miles (70,546 square kilometers) that is Bavaria. Most of the state is a plateau surrounded by mountains. Those mountains are the Bavarian Alps that blend into the Tirplesese Alps at the Austrian ... ...

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... the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was ... ...

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... of January 1, 2002 Germany is adopting the Euro to join others in the European Union. The population in Germany is an estimated 83 million people. There are 586 people per square mile. There are more women than men in Germany. The official language spoke here is German. The ethnic groups found in Germany are German, Turkish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Greek ... ...

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... lost most of their coal mines which were located in Upper Silesia to Poland. Germany also lost every single overseas colony to the Allies, this accounted for over 1,000,000 square miles. The colonies were split up between the Allies; Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Japan all got a piece of the action. Germany lost a little piece of its own land ... ...

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... -1918. This war lasted much longer than expected, and casualties were great ;120,000 killed in 24 hours, 40,000 wounded in 24 hours, and 250,000 men killed in 5 square mile area. A bullet from an assassin's gun condemned the five powers of Europe to engage in brutal warfare over a period of 4 years. On June 28,1914, an assassin, Gvrilo Princip ... ...

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... , or mass is constant. When moving at high speeds time, weight, and mass get compressed. Einstein said it happens because energy is equal to mass times the speed of light square, it is usually represented as E = mc2. He became famous and was highly respected. When the war in Berlin broke out his wife and kids moved back to Switzerland and soon ... ...

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... , who much like the Germans wanted to get outside the conventional thoughts concerning her home. She didn't want to live in a "traditional little-old-lady house- but instead built a 1500 square foot, one story house that features glass fazade of two slender rectangles, which bound the two cottages. There is a front cottage that is Mrs. Talbot's private quarters and is 13 ... ...

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... US Army crosses the Ludendorf Fridge @ Remagen on the Rhine river. o Cologne becomes the first German city to fall to the advancing Allies March 29, 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo o 16 square miles flattened o 100,000 people die April 1, 1945 Americans invade OKINAWA o For the first time on a massive scale, Japanese introduce Kamikaze Divine Wind April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt dies April ... ...

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... of the most famous plays, operas and operettas in the world. You can also explore Prague's history by visiting some of the castles, museums and buildings like the Old Town Square and original Old Town Hall, where you can find the famous Prague astronomical clock, you can also visit Charles Bridge, Prague's oldest stone bridge which was built six hundred years ... ...

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... Bauhaus. The picture that he created for the exhibition in 1923 resembles a person with line. The side outline of the face is blue, and the one eye is a red perfect square. This picture deals with very precise straight lines and edges. In the later years of Bauhaus, many achievements were accomplished. They used new materials and developed new designs in architecture ... ...

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... made Germany admit it was their fault for the war, which made Germany feel a lot of resent. They were ordered to pay 132million gold marks and tens of thousands of square miles of land were taken away from them, This caused economic problems, as Germany could not afford to pay these fines in the short time that the allies gave them ... ...

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... from her. She lost 13.5 percent of her territory and about 7 million people to neighbouring countries because of the Treaty of Versailles. They also particularly didn't like the loss 17800 square miles of land to the new country, Poland in the east and how Germany was separated into two parts by the Polish Corridor. The other losses included Alsace and Lorraine ... ...

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... were passed by through the generations. Back then no-one knew how to write out the music for the songs. Since no-one knew notation, neumes were created. They were square notes. They were only the general outline of the melody. Over time the neumes developed into notes on a four line staff. There were three types of music, Syllabic (one note ... ...

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... right for you, and what's right for me is right for me," even if two positions are the exact opposite of each other. Well, doesn't that take us back to square one? As long as I think it's all right to step on Robert's feet and shove him down, then I"m right! If I tell a lie to this atheist, do they have a right to ... ...

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... : "The way to legal dictatorship was now open." It was so true Hitler could now do what he wanted without any consequences. Allan Bullock describes what happened: "Outside in the square the huge crowd roared its approval. The Nazi's had every reason to be delighted: with the passage of the Enabling Act, Hitler secured his independence, not only from the Reichstag ... ...

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... and Baltic sea in the Netherlands and Poland, which is south of Denmark. Germany has about 82 million people for a population with a growth rate of 0.26%, It is about 356910 square kilometers, so it is slightley smaller than the state Montana. The climate is usualy cool and cloudy with wet winters and wet summers, occasionaly warm, tropical winds; humidity. The capital ... ...

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... Hitler was going to take was Czechoslovakia. The thought of impending conquest scared the Czechoslovakian people so much that without a single soldier crossing their border, they gave up 11 thousand square miles of land to the Nazis. Hitler was still not satisfied and by mid-March 1939, Czechoslovakia was absorbed into the growing German empire (Heyes, 82-90). The Holocaust was ... ...

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... weapons. The Associated Powers made Germany pay for the cost of the war with money, trains, livestock, natural resources, and ships. In addition, Germany had to give up 27,500 square miles of territory.2 The Ottoman Empire was placed under French and British rule. Austria-Hungary had to give away its territories and Ausria-Hungary was split up into two countries ... ...

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... most oppressive sensation you get is when entering the incinerator. On top of the roof are two big chimneys, which smoked often for hours. In the middle of that 50 square meter room are two ovens located with a size that a human being can fit in. At first, the humans were gased in the gas chamber and then burned here. It is ... ...

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