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Tennis is a sport played between either two players ("singles") or two teams of two players ("doubles"). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is still called lawn tennis to distinguish it from real tennis (also known as royal tennis or court tennis), an older form of the game that originated in France in the Middle Ages and is played indoors on a very different court. Originating in England in the late 19th century, lawn tennis first spread throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes. Today tennis is an Olympic sport that is played at all levels of society, by all ages, and in many countries around the world. Except for the adoption of the tie-breaker in the 1970s, its rules have remained remarkably unchanged since the 1890s. Millions of people also follow tennis as a spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments. [more...]

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A symphony is a large-scale musical composition for an orchestra. Since the late eighteenth century, composers have regarded the symphony as “the central form of orchestral composition”, similar to how writers of fiction regard the novel, and filmmakers the feature film.^[1] According to music historian Michael Kennedy, the symphony “is reserved by composers for their most weighty and profound orchestral thoughts, but of course there are many light-hearted, witty, and entertaining symphonies.”^[2] In the present day the symphony is the musical form performed more than any other in concert programs by orchestras in the United States and Europe. [more...]

↑ Sadie, Stanley, The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, quoted online as [1]
↑ Kennedy, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 638.

[1] Sadie, Stanley, The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, quoted online as [1]

[2] Kennedy, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 638.

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-The '''[[Rottweiler]]''' is a large breed of [[dog]] known for its great physical strength and strong protective instinct. The breed was once employed widely to guard, herd, and pull carts, and its [[kennel club]] classification, usually in the [[working dog]] group, reflects this. Although still sometimes put to work, especially as [[police dog]]s, most rottweilers today serve as human companions or family [[pet]]s, where their natural instincts manifest as a strong protectiveness toward those they consider their own.
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-'''[[Oxygen]]''' (chemical symbol O) is the most abundant (46.6%) [[chemical element]] of the [[lithosphere]] (the crust and the uppermost mantle of the [[earth]]). It is a constituent of water (H<sub>2</sub>O) and of rocks and sand in the form of [[silicon]] dioxide SiO<sub>2</sub> (silica). A volume of earth atmosphere consists of 21% of the oxygen molecule O<sub>2</sub>. The O-atom has [[nuclear charge]] 8''e'', where ''e'' is the [[elementary charge]], and 8 [[electron]]s, occupying the eighth position in the [[Periodic Table of Elements]], i.e., its [[atomic number]] ''Z'' is eight. Atomic oxygen is very reactive, so that the element does not occur naturally in free form, but only in compounds.
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+A '''[[symphony]]''' is a large-scale musical composition for an [[orchestra]]. Since the late eighteenth century, composers have regarded the symphony as “the central form of orchestral composition”, similar to how writers of fiction regard the novel, and filmmakers the feature film.<ref> Sadie, Stanley, ''The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music'', quoted online as [http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_symphony.html]</ref> According to music historian Michael Kennedy, the symphony “is reserved by composers for their most weighty and profound orchestral thoughts, but of course there are many light-hearted, witty, and entertaining symphonies.”<ref>Kennedy, Michael. ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 638.</ref> In the present day the symphony is the musical form performed more than any other in concert programs by orchestras in the United States and Europe. <font size=1>[[Symphony|['''more...''']]]</font>
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