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Wigmore Hall 
 The hall was built in a Renaissance style, with alabaster and marble walls and a rectangular hall with a small, raised stage.
Wigmore Hall 
 Above the stage the ceiling is in the form of a cupola which has a painting which shows the Soul of Music looking up at the Genius of Harmony: a ball of eternal fire whose rays are reflected across the world.
Wigmore Hall 
 These are separated by thorns from the rest of the picture which includes a musician and, on the other side, Psyche inspiring a composer to write music.
Wigmore Hall 
 The "Bechstein Hall" opened on 31 May 1901 with a concert given by the virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
Wigmore Hall 
 During its early period many famous musicians played there, including Artur Schnabel, Pablo Sarasate, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubinstein and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Wigmore Hall 
 Because it was owned by a German firm, the hall was seized as enemy property during World War I. The hall with over 130 pianos was sold at an auction to Debenhams for a very small amount of money, and was re-opened as Wigmore Hall in 1917.
Wigmore Hall 
 Musicians who have performed there since include Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Ángeles, Sergei Prokofiev, Shura Cherkassky, Paul Hindemith, Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc.
Wigmore Hall 
 The Wigmore Hall publishes on its own record label "Wigmore Hall live" recordings of concerts that were given by famous musicians.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music or ABRSM is an organisation that arranges music examinations.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 Many people, especially children, who learn instruments take examinations of the ABRSM as it helps them to become better players because it gives them something to work for.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 The organisation is called  “Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music” because it is organised by a group of four music conservatoires:
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 For example, someone who has learned the piano for a short while may take Grade 1 once he or she can play pieces such as a simple minuet, and play a few scales with separate hands.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 By the time they take Grade 8 they will need to be able to play movements from sonatas by composers such as Beethoven, play all 24 scales in various ways very fluently and be good at sight-reading.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 one hundred and twenty marks to one hundred and twenty nine is called a “Merit” and one hundred and thirty and above is a “Distinction”.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 Although some students take each of the grades as they get better at their instrument, it is not necessary to have passed earlier grades in order to take a higher grade.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 For grades 6 and above it is necessary to have passed Grade 5 Theory or Practical Musicianship or Jazz.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 They have a wide experience of music and they are trained by the ABRSM so that they all mark in the same way.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 The student is given a piece he has never seen before, and has 30 seconds to look at it or try it out, and then he must play it as well as he can.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 He may, for example, have to sing the notes the examiner played, or clap the rhythm or say what kind of chords were played (depending on the grade).
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 There is also a Prep Test for those who are not yet ready to take Grade 1 but would like to have the experience of taking an exam.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 They are marked out of 100: 66 or more is a pass; 80 or more is a merit; 90 or more is a distinction.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 These exams will test a student’s understanding of rhythm, melody, key and notation together with the ability to sing and play from memory, and improvise and to recognise changes to and answer questions about a score.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 However many of the pieces include large sections where they have to improvise (make something up) using particular chords.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 
 These are professional qualifications which allow a person to put the letters after his or her name.
Punjab 
 Punjab lasso, a weapon made of cat gut used to strangle people, mentioned in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera
Engraving 
 [[File:Hercules fighting the Centaurs.jpg|thumb|260px|Hercules fighting the Centaurs, engraving by Sebald Beham]]
Engraving 
 The result may be a decorative piece in itself, as when silver, gold or steel are engraved, or may provide a printing plate of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper which are also called engravings.
Engraving 
 Engraving was an important method in history of making images on paper, both in artistic ways, such as making a decorative print, and also for printing books and magazines.
Engraving 
 It has long been replaced by photography in its commercial uses and, is nowadays much less common in printmaking, where it has been almost completely replaced by etching and other techniques.
Engraving 
 Engravers use a steel tool called a burin to cut the picture or pattern into the surface, mostly a copper plate.
Engraving 
 Florentine liners are flat-bottomed tools with multiple lines on them, used to do work on larger areas.
Engraving 
 Round gravers are commonly used on silver as well as other hard-to-cut metals such as nickel and steel.
Engraving 
 In ancient history, the only engraving that could be made were the shallow grooves found in some jewellery after 1000 B.C.
Engraving 
 From this grew the engraving of copper printing plates to make artistic images on paper in Germany in the 1430s.
Engraving 
 The first and greatest period of engraving was from about 1470 to 1530, with such masters as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, and Lucas van Leiden.
Engraving 
 Thereafter engraving tended to lose popularity to etching, which was a much easier technique for an artist to learn.
Engraving 
 Before the invention of photography, engraving was used to reproduce other forms of art, for example paintings.
Engraving 
 Engravings continued to be common in newspapers and many books into the early 20th century, because they were cheap to use in printing.
Engraving 
 When two sets of parallel line hatchings crossed each other for higher density, the pattern was known as cross-hatching.
Engraving 
 One example is his Sudarium of Saint Veronica, an engraving of the face of Jesus from a single spiralling line that starts at the tip Jesus's nose (pictured).
Engraving 
 Because of the high level of detail that can be done by a master engraver, faking engraved designs is almost impossible, and modern banknotes are almost always engraved, as are plates for printing money, checks, bonds and other papers that should not be faked.
Engraving 
 Engraving is so fine that a normal printer can not make the detail of hand engraved images properly.
Engraving 
 In the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, more than one engraver will work on the same printing plate, making it nearly impossible for any person to duplicate all the engraving on almost any banknote or document.
Engraving 
 Many classic postage stamps were engraved, although the practice is now mostly confined to particular countries, or used when a more "elegant" design is desired and a limited amount of different colours is acceptable.
Engraving 
 A K6 can have up to 18 engraving heads each cutting 8,000 cells per second to an accuracy of 0.1 µm and below.
Engraving 
 They are of course fully computer controlled and the whole process of cylinder making is fully automatic.
Engraving 
 Now, laser engraving machines are being made and even today the mechanical cutting has proven its strength in economical terms and quality.
Engraving 
 Each of the two onyx stones on the shoulder pieces of the high priest’s ephod was engraved with the names of six different tribes of Israel, and each of the 12 precious stones that adorned his breastpiece was engraved with the name of one of the tribes.
Engraving 
 The holy sign of dedication, the shining gold plate on the high priest’s turban, was engraved with the words: “Holiness belongs to Jehovah.”
Engraving 
 Bezalel, along with Oholiab, was qualified to do this specialized engraving work as well as to train others.—Ex 35:30-35; 28:9-12; 39:6-14, 30.
Ron Dennis 
 Ronald "Ron" Dennis CBE (born 1 June 1947) is the executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group.
Skateboard 
 There are many different types of skateboards like stunt skateboards, penny skateboards, Longboards, short boards and more.
Skateboard 
 The normal parts that make a complete skateboard are the deck, trucks, wheels, bearings, hardware, and griptape.
Skateboard 
 There are soft skateboard wheels which are better for going fast and rolling over small debris and rocks, and hard wheels that are usually used by the pros and most skaters at the skatepark.
Skateboard 
 Other materials used in making decks fiberglass, bamboo, resin, Kevlar, carbon fiber, aluminum, and plastic.
Skateboard 
 Different kinds of the 1970s often have little or no concavity, whereas 1980s models have deeper concavities and steeper kicktails.
Skateboard 
 While the low concave is having small curvature and makes the safe ride, but you can’t put more stress on the edges deck.
Skateboard 
 Medium concave is readily available in the market because it suits beginners, which keeps it always in demand.
Interstate 95 
 Interstate 95 (usually called 95) is a major Interstate highway  that runs north to south in the eastern part of the United States.
Interstate 95 
 Its southern end is at U.S. Route 1 in Miami, Florida and its northern end is at the Canadian border in Maine.
Interstate 95 
 Many parts of I-95 were made up of various toll roads that had already been constructed or planned, particularly in the northeast.
Interstate 95 
 The Fuller Warren Bridge, spanning the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, was tolled until the 1980s and was replaced in 2002.
Interstate 95 
 The George Washington Bridge, opened in 1931, carries I-95, US 1, US 9, and US 46 (latter is officially considered to end at the NY state line) across the Hudson River between New Jersey and Upper Manhattan.
Interstate 95 
 A study that could lead to the imposition of tolls on I-95 in North Carolina is under way as of March 2010.
Interstate 95 
 A long-term multibillion-dollar program to upgrade the entire length of I-95 through Connecticut has been underway since the mid-1990s and is expected to continue through at least 2020.
Interstate 95 
 Several miles of I-95 through Bridgeport were recently widened and brought up to Interstate standards.
Interstate 95 
 Work has shifted to reconstructing and widening  of I-95 through New Haven, which includes replacing the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge.
Interstate 95 
 Environmental studies for reconstructing and widening  of I-95 from New Haven to the Rhode Island state line are also progressing.
Interstate 95 
 There are plans to expand the  I-95 corridor from Petersburg, Virginia, to Florida through a U.S. multi-state agreement to study how to improve the corridor through widening and reconstruction, with the goal of reducing congestion and improving overall safety for years to come.
Interstate 95 
 As of December 2010, I-95 from the South Carolina–Georgia line south to Jacksonville, Florida has been upgraded to six lanes.
Interstate 95 
 The section from Jacksonville to the I-4 junction in Daytona Beach was expanded to six lanes in 2005.
Interstate 95 
 As of 2009, widening projects continue in Brevard County from the SR 528 junction in Cocoa to Palm Bay, as well as in northern Palm Beach County.
Interstate 95 
 In 2009, state legislators representing Maine's Aroostook County proposed using federal economic stimulus funds to extend I-95 north to Maine's northernmost border community of Fort Kent via Caribou and Presque Isle.
Interstate 95 
 The proposed route would parallel New Brunswick's four-lane, limited access Trans-Canada Highway on the U.S. side of the Canada–United States border.
U.S. Route 1 
 U.S. Route 1 (sometimes called US 1) is a major United States highway (U.S. Route) in the eastern part of the United States.
U.S. Route 1 
 Its northern end is at the Canadian border in Fort Kent, Maine and its southern end is at Key West, Florida.
U.S. Route 1 
 It connects many major cities in the Eastern United States, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Augusta, Georgia, Jacksonville, Florida, and Miami.
U.S. Route 1 
 Parts of the road were built in the 1800s as the Boston Post Road and in the 1900s as the Atlantic Highway.
U.S. Route 1 
 Despite this, it is significantly further inland from Jacksonville to Petersburg, VA and in North Carolina and Virginia even parallels I-85.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 After the "White Album" (The Beatles) was released in late 1968, the Beatles talked about making a television special, where they would play songs from the album for an audience.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 As 1969 began, the band decided instead to begin work on a new set of songs, and film the process of rehearsing and recording all the songs, then performing them live.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The Beatles rented a  at Twickenham Film Studios, where their instruments and equipment were set up.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 They were used to working from afternoons until late at night on music, but had to arrive between eight and ten o'clock in the morning, to meet the filming schedule.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The suggested locations ranged from Los Angeles, California to Tunisia, and the size of the audience from a few dozen to thousands of people.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Nobody had a location in mind that the rest liked, and George Harrison decided he did not want to perform a public concert at all.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Paul McCartney took charge of the rehearsals, and drove the band hard to play his new songs just the way he imagined them.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The other Beatles became tired of this, because it did not give them much chance to , the way they were used to doing.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 George Harrison got especially tired of McCartney telling him what to play, and his own songs not getting the attention they deserved.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 John Lennon also had new songs, but was more interested in spending time with Yoko Ono than in making another Beatles record.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Yoko Ono gave her opinions on the band's music, which they were not used to hearing from anyone but their producer, George Martin.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Nobody wanted to return to the movie studio, and they began to look for another place to work on their new songs.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 "Magic Alex", a Greek-born inventor, had been hired by the Beatles to build them a new recording studio, in the basement of the  which was the home of their company, Apple Corps.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 He did not understand recording or studio technology well, though, and the studio he made had many technical problems.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Things did not work, and this added to the tension felt by the band, and the people who worked for them.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The movie cameras were also set up in the basement, and the Beatles went back to work on their music.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 This time things were as crowded as the first location was cavernous, and again the band and their crew were uncomfortable.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison each wanted certain things for their music, and enough time to make the records the best they could be.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 This did not always work out, and they sometimes insulted each other for trying to outdo the others, or for letting their musical influences show.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 George Harrison helped the  of the band, when he brought a guest musician, Billy Preston, to the sessions.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 McCartney's girlfriend Linda brought her daughter Heather to the studio, and they helped cheer things up.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The question of where and when to finally perform the new songs was settled, when the Beatles decided to give a show on the roof of Apple headquarters.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 As it happened, the music coming from the rooftop caused a traffic jam along Savile Row, where the building was located.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Mal Evans, one of the Beatles's most trusted helpers, went downstairs and talked to the police, to stall them until the band could finish playing.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 After performing "Get Back", "Don't Let Me Down", "I've Got A Feeling", "One After 909", "Dig A Pony", and another version of "Get Back", the band went inside.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 They performed "Two of Us", "Don't Let Me Down", "Let it Be", "Get Back", and "The Long and Winding Road".
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The movie crew shot more than a hundred hours of movie footage, which was more than enough to make a television special.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The Beatles worked a little longer on the recordings of the Get Back songs, ending up with over twenty-nine hours of session tapes.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The band members had argued and disagreed on camera, and did not always make their best efforts on each other's songs, or to get along.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 George Martin tried to remix the recordings, and make an album from the songs, while the Beatles' movie personnel tried to edit the movie footage into the TV special the band wanted.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The band's problems were only magnified by the results, and they blamed each other, and the people who worked for them, for what showed.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Billy Preston's name appeared underneath the band's, and stories started that Preston might join the Beatles.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 They had begun to make music apart the year before, and this increased as they stopped getting along as people.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 McCartney and Lennon both married their girlfriends, and lost control of their publishing company, Northern Songs.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 They had stopped working as a unit, and George Martin stopped coming to recording sessions, which he had never done before.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 George Martin decided to come back, on the band's promise that they really would work together "like the old days", with Martin taking charge.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 John Lennon, freshly back from his first non-Beatles concert, playing in Toronto, surprised everyone by announcing that he was quitting the band.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 He agreed to not make a public announcement, because this would have hurt the band's chance to  their recording contract.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 At the end of the year, Apple's accountants told the Beatles that they would have to release some kind of album and program from the Get Back sessions.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Glyn Johns, a young music producer, tried to assemble an album from the session tapes, but he also could not please the Beatles.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 John Lennon and George Harrison got along well with Spector, who produced a record of Lennon's song "Instant Karma!"
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Lennon and Harrison gave their OK for Spector to work on the recordings, and Ringo Starr played along with the musicians Spector hired, to make overdubs.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 This went against the original plan to present the songs live, but was accepted to "sweeten" – and finish – the recordings.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 An eighty-minute program was edited together from the movie footage, and the band decided it would make a better movie than a television show.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The Beatles had a contract with United Artists, who agreed to distribute the movie, which was titled Let it Be. (
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The Get Back title was dropped, since "Get Back" had already appeared as a single almost a year earlier.)
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Some of the new songs that appeared in the movie, including "Across the Universe" and "I Me Mine", were not finished on record.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 A session was scheduled in January 1970 to record full versions of some songs, but John Lennon refused to attend.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 George Harrison made a joke about this, during a take of "I Me Mine", referring to Lennon as "Dave Dee", another British musician.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Spector applied his "Wall of Sound" style to the Beatles recordings, including an old tape of "Across the Universe", so it could appear on record.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 His finished album was listenable, and showed none of the troubles that affected the band during the sessions, but it did not sound the same as other Beatles albums.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Paul McCartney hated the changes Spector made to his songs on the album, especially "The Long and Winding Road", but he could not stop the album from being issued.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Allen Klein had succeeded in remaking the Beatles's recording deal, and McCartney was not bound by the same promise Lennon had been, to not say he was leaving the band.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 His first solo album, finished early in 1970, included a press release stating that he had no further plans to work with the Beatles.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Ringo Starr, who also had a solo record (Sentimental Journey), due to appear, was sent to ask McCartney to change his release date.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The news that the Beatles were breaking up was very sad to their fans, however, and the knowledge made watching the movie a  experience.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Many fans and critics did not like Spector's changes to the Beatles style on record, and said so publicly.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 A souvenir book was also issued, but instead of being a real document of the sessions, the book was  and heavily edited, and reflected little of what was intended.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 Late in 1970, John Lennon issued a solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, which made his feelings plain in its last song, "God": Lennon sang "I don't believe in Beatles."
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 He gave a long interview to Rolling Stone magazine, which was later published as a book, Lennon Remembers.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 He told his side of the Let it Be story, declared "That movie was set up by Paul, for Paul", and said he regretted not announcing that he quit the Beatles first.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 In 2003, recording engineers went back to the old session tapes, and used  to make a new version of the familiar Let it Be songs.
Let It Be (Beatles album) 
 The new version was close to what the Beatles had wanted to make in the first place, and had none of Spector's post-production work.
Tiger Woods 
 His achievements, which include winning 70 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including 14 major championships, make him one of the best golfers in the world.
Tiger Woods 
 He does have two half-brothers, Earl Jr. (born 1955) and Kevin (born 1957) and a half-sister, Royce (born 1958) from the 18-year marriage of Earl Woods and his first wife, Barbara Woods Gray.
Tiger Woods 
 Earl, a retired lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mostly African-American, as well as Caucasian and possible Native American and Chinese ancestry.
Tiger Woods 
 Kultida (née Punsawad), originally from Thailand (where Earl had met her on a tour of duty in 1968), is of mixed Dutch, Chinese and Thai ancestry.