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Battle trance

Summary: {{Template}} '''Battle trance''' is a term denoting a specific [[altered state of consciousness]] that characterizes the [[psychology|psychological state]] of [[combatant]]s during a combat...

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Processional walkway

Summary: {{Template}} A '''processional walkway''' is a ceremonial [[walkway]] in use since ancient times. Common functions of a processional walkway are for religious, governmental or celebratory...

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Ritualization

Summary: {{Template}} '''Ritualization ''' is a behavior that occurs typically in a member of a given [[species]] in a highly [[stereotype]]d fashion and independent of any direct [[physiological]]...

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Battle cry

Summary: {{Template}} A '''battle cry''' is a yell or chant taken up in [[battle]], usually by members of the same military unit. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate, although they often aim to...

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Haka

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Haka''' (plural is the same as singular: haka) is a [[traditional]] ancestral [[battle cry|war cry]], [[dance]] or challenge from the [[Māori people]] of [[New Zealand]]....

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The New York Times reports the sensational Rite premiere, nine days after the...

Summary: {{Template}} :The New York Times reports the sensational Rite premiere, nine days after the event [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_Ballet_in_Paris_-_New_York_Times_1913-06-07.png]...

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Theaterskandal

Summary: {{Template}} Als '''Theaterskandal''' bezeichnet man [[Konflikt]]e um [[Theateraufführung]]en, die an gesellschaftliche, moralische, religiöse oder künstlerische [[Tabu]]s rühren, und dadurch...

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Le Spectre de la Rose

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Le Spectre de la Rose''''' is a ballet of the [[Ballets Russes]] based on a poem by [[Théophile Gautier]]. The music, by [[Carl Maria von Weber]], was his 1819 piano piece...

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Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi

Summary: {{Template}} '''Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi''' (2 October 1877, [[Marseille]], [[France]]{{spaced ndash}}1 February 1944, [[London]], [[England]]) was a multilingual music writer and critic...

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Branded to Kill

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Branded to Kill''''' is a 1967 Japanese [[yakuza film]] directed by [[Seijun Suzuki]] and starring [[Joe Shishido]], [[Koji Nanbara]], [[Annu Mari]] and Mariko Ogawa. It was...

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Tokyo Drifter

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Tokyo Drifter''''' is a 1966 [[Yakuza film|''yakuza'' film]] directed by [[Seijun Suzuki]]. The story follows [[Tetsuya Watari]] as the reformed yakuza [[Contract...

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Karaoke

Summary: {{Template}} '''Karaoke''' is a form of [[interactive entertainment]] or [[video game]] in which [[amateur]] [[singer]]s sing along with recorded [[music]] (a [[music video]]) using a...

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Adolphe Boschot

Summary: {{Template}} '''Adolphe Boschot''', né à [[Fontenay-sous-Bois]] ([[Seine (département)|Seine]]) le 4|mai|1871 et mort à [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]] le 1|juin|1955, est un musicographe et critique...

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Les Sylphides

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Les Sylphides''''' is a short, non-narrative ''[[Ballet Blanc|ballet blanc]]''. Its original [[choreography]] was by [[Michel Fokine]], with music by [[Frédéric Chopin]]...

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Polovtsian Dances

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Polovtsian Dances''' (or '''Polovetsian Dances''') ({{lang-rus|Половецкие пляски, ''Polovetskie plyaski''}} from the Russian name of the [[Turkic]] [[Polovtsy]] people) are...

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Commentator

Summary: {{Template}} '''Commentator''' may refer to: *[[Pundit (expert)]] or political commentator *[[Sports commentator]] *[[Color commentator]], a sports commentator who provides analysis and...

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Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)

Summary: {{Template}} '''Thomas Wedgwood''' (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805), son of [[Josiah Wedgwood]], the potter, was an early experimenter with [[Humphry Davy]] in [[photography]]. ==Life== Thomas...

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Humphry Davy

Summary: {{Template}} '''Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] [[Royal Irish Academy|MRIA]] [[Geological Society of London|FGS]] (17 December 1778{{spaced ndash}}29 May...

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Pierre Monteux

Summary: {{Template}} '''Pierre Benjamin Monteux''' (4 April 1875{{spaced ndash}}1 July 1964) was a French (later American) [[conducting|conductor]]. After violin and [[viola]] studies, and a decade as...

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List of riots

Summary: {{Template}} This is an incomplete chronological list of [[riot]]s. ==Seventeenth century and earlier== * 44 BC – [[Julius Caesar Assassination plot|Assassination of Julius Caesar]] (Rome,...

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