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Musicians

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Ercole de' RobertiErcole de' Roberti: Concert, c. 1490

A musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:

  • A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument.
  • An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.
  • Both singer and instrumentalist can be improvisers, who create real time music.
  • Composers and songwriters write music.
  • A conductor coordinates a musical ensemble.

Musicians may also dance or produce choreography. The concept of the musician and the status of the musician in society varies from culture to culture.

Chess International Grandmaster

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Siegbert TarraschSiegbert Tarrasch

The title International Grandmaster is awarded to superb chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master).

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of Web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. They consist of a set of guidelines on making content accessible, primarily for disabled users, but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as mobile phones.

Priority levels

The guidelines have three priority levels:

Flowers for women

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WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young;
The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.

(Beautiful Women, by Walt Whitman)

International Women's Day

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8 March landyshHowever, with time the meaning of the Holiday evolved to an apolitical celebration of women with an emphasis on their beauty and motherhood. Most late Soviet 8th of March postcards carried no political meaning.

Mother's Day

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Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange

Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

It is a relatively modern concept, not to be confused with the 16th century celebration of Mothering Sunday.

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