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List of 20thcentury classical composers Wikipedia ~ This is a list of composers of 20thcentury classical music sortable by name year of birth year of death nationality notable works and includes only composers of significant fame and importance The style of the composers music is given where possible bearing in mind that some defy simple classification

Madagascar Wikipedia ~ Madagascar is a member of the United Nations the African Union AU the Southern African Development Community SADC and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Madagascar belongs to the group of least developed countries according to the United Nations Malagasy and French are both official languages of the state

Spanish language Wikipedia ~ Spanish ˈ s p æ n ɪ ʃ español help · info or Castilian k æ ˈ s t ɪ l i ə n castellano help · info is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today has over 450 million native speakers in Spain the Americas and a small part of is a global language and the worlds secondmost spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese

Sanremo Music Festival Wikipedia ~ The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival was hosted by Nunzio Filogamo He also hosted the next three editions of the musical event In 2003 Pippo Baudo hosted the festival for the eleventh time matching the record previously held by Mike Bongiorno He later overtook this record hosting the Sanremo Music Festival in 2007 and in 2008

Romance languages Wikipedia ~ Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages Romance languages are moderately inflecting there is a moderately complex system of affixes primarily suffixes that are attached to words to convey grammatical information such as number gender person tense etc Verbs

2000s decade Wikipedia ~ The 2000s pronounced twothousands was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1 2000 and ended on December 31 2009 The growth of the Internet contributed to globalization during the decade which allowed faster communication among people around the world The economic growth of the 2000s had considerable social environmental and mass extinction consequences and

Central America Wikipedia ~ Central America Spanish América Central pronounced aˌmeɾika senˈtɾal Centroamérica pronounced sentɾoaˈmeɾika is a region found in the southern tip of North America and is sometimes defined as a subcontinent of the Americas This region is bordered by Mexico to the north Colombia to the southeast the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south

Global warming controversy Wikipedia ~ The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring how much has occurred in modern times what has caused it what its effects will be whether any action can or should be taken to curb it and if so what that action should be In the scientific literature there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent

Consonance and dissonance Wikipedia ~ In Western music dissonance is the quality of sounds that seems unstable and has an aural need to resolve to a stable consonance Both consonance and dissonance are words applied to harmony chords and intervals and by extension to melody tonality and even rhythm and h there are physical and neurological facts important to understanding the idea of dissonance the precise