Metronome
Usually housed in a hollow, pyramid-shaped box, metronomes visually and aurally register the tempo (speed) of music. The standard metronome consists of a pivoted pendulum with a fixed weight...
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Hamburg (dpa) - An individually designed sports programme could
increase the mobility of people with Parkinson's disease, doctors who
specialize in the disease say.
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MILAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - From love letters to evening
dresses, personal belongings of Greek-American opera diva Maria
Callas will be put up for sale in Milan in December. The material, released b...
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MILAN, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Love letters, jewellery, dresses,
photographs and other memorabilia that belonged to Maria Callas
fetched 1.76 million euros ($2.5 million) at an auction on
Wednesday 30 ...
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MILAN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Musical scores, glamorous dresses
and love letters belonging to Maria Callas to be auctioned next
week will offer a glimpse of the private passions of the opera
diva whose...
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I recently had a conversation with my mother (no relation).OK, I suppose I'm technically incorrect — about the "no relation" part, not that I had a conversation. But by the time I'd finished ...
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There is a spookiness about athletic genius, a strangeness that resides in subtle contrasts. Why, amid others similarly gifted, does one competitor give us goose bumps?
You can talk all you want a...
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Little Fugue, by Robert Anderson. Ballantine, 384 pages, $24.95.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman "is the most poetical topic in the world." There could hardly be a less w...
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Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go through the whole year without a hyped-to-death debut. It was a time for precocious youngsters...
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Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go through the whole year without a hyped-to-death debut. It was a time for precocious youngsters...
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Metronome
Targeted sports programme could help Parkinson's patients
