• How to Choose the Right Electronic Chess Set

    When looking for a chess set, one must consider the benefits of owning an electronic chess set. An electronic chess set provides a game playing option where a player has the benefit of being able to face an increasingly difficult opponent while being able to have the ability to learn from your mistakes. But, within this category, there are two options that can be purchased. On the one hand, table-top electronic chess sets are the only option that allows a player to play against another human, or against the computer itself. The other option to have a hand held version that gives the flexibility of playing whenever the time permits.



  • Sherlock Holmes is Alive

    For many a literary fan it is fun and exciting to dress up and play the part of ones favorite character but it seems that no other character is quite as popular as that of a one Sherlock Holmes. His quirky yet intelligent actions in the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle make him among the top literary characters that are researched and requested today. Even in death, he was a popular character, and the public begged for his resurrection. Doyle finally did give him back to the world and the fans, which would be seen wearing black armbands around their arms in public to mourn for the loss of the popular character.



  • Educating the Aspiring Performer

    Education for the aspiring artist



  • Paid Tv - Buying Media Online - The Good Virus That Can Help Spread A Marketing Campaign

    The internet is providing paid TV-like advertising opportunities. Most of the companies that are buying paid TV-like advertising online are buying in blocks of a three month period. Many companies are analyzing how the benefits of this type of advertising have an added advantage in reaching, as well as tracking, a wider audience. There is no doubt that most are more than satisfied with the results.



  • 10 Grey's Anatomy Quotes to Celebrate the Grey's Addiction

    If you're a Grey's addict like I am, anytime is a good time for Grey's Anatomy quotes. Never seen the show? You don't know what your missing! Whether you're a long-time fan or someone who wants some insight into what the show is about, here are ten Grey's Anatomy quotes that are sure to whet your palate.



  • Probably the Most Popular Detective in the World?

    The earlier forms of detective fiction often influence the writers of the same or similar genres in the present. The question is how can such writers ever hope to create a more popular character than that of the famous Sherlock Holmes? Could this really be such an impossible feat? The possible is not possible unless one makes it so. Therefore, it is not completely impossible to create such a world renowned character; it just has not been accomplished as of yet.



  • Is "Mind Reading Exposed" True To The Hype?

    Let's get to the chase.



  • Mario Lopez Lands New Sitcom

    Television star and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Mario Lopez was recently given a new project to work on. Lopez, who participated on Dancing with the Stars' season 3, will be starring alongside R&B singer Christina Milian on CW's comedy pilot, Eight Days a Week.



  • Beethoven

    Born in 1770, Ludvig van Beethoven was one of only three of his parents' seven offspring children to survive infancy. Yet the world of music owes this chance event an immeasurable amount, because he would go on to be one of a handful of composers to grace the art form with a style and quality that is truly unique. His father was his first music teacher, a proficient tenor, and his grandfather on the paternal side had been Kappelmeister at the court of Clemens August of Bavaria. Music was in his blood, and he started playing viola and organ at a very early age, although he was not a prodigy in the Mozart mould - despite his father's attempts to declare that Ludwig was seven for an early performance when he was in fact nine. However he was certainly a talented youngster, and published his first three piano sonatas in 1783. He died in 1827 and it is said that as many as 30,000 people attended his funeral procession.



  • Classical Guitar

    Although the precise origins of the classical guitar are open to debate, there is plenty of evidence of the existence of similar instruments dating back as early as 5000 years ago. The idea of a hollow body with tensed strings anchored between two points is seen in many instruments, including the violin family, sitar, piano and harp; they all use the string's vibrations to resonate the body and produce sounds. However, because the guitar is fretted, it allows pitch-perfect chords to be played over six strings, which differentiates it from the unfretted (and often bowed) violin family. The guitar as we know it today started to take shape during the Renaissance and Baroque period, when it was used mainly as an accompaniment. Cousins of the guitar are the mandolin, balalaika, banjo and lute. There are enough similarities between these instruments to relate them all, but to give a guitar a unique definition, it would be a six-string, fretted instrument tuned between low E (a thirteenth below Middle C) and the E two octaves above. Of course - these are merely the open-string tunings. Notes approaching two octaves above this are achievable through fretting. This tuning allows the guitar's whole range to be represented on the treble clef, albeit with three ledger lines for the lowest notes.