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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
21: ...d have presented an amazing spectacle: A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
57: [[uk:Сади Семирамі... - Steel (28384 bytes)
34: ...e]] with an iron blade and gold-decorated bronze haft were both found in the excavation of [[Ugarit]] ...
36: ...ts, bronze remained in widespread use there until after Egypt's conquest by [[Assyria]] in [[663 BC]].
60: ...ach batch. These larger furnaces required more draft than could be provided by human power, and forgi...
66: ...aster, and [[Peter Baude]], a [[France|French]] craftsman in [[Henry VIII]]'s employ, cast the Weald's...
68: ... ore contained some calcareous material, and soon after, Dutch ironmasters introduced the use of limes... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ... becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after [[Valentina Tereshkova]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...ubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''София Асг...
45: ...welchen Tanz eine einfache Holzrassel f?h vollf?Слушишь т... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...: '''Лариса Семёновн...
5: ...st practiced [[ballet]], but turned to gymnastics after her choreographer moved out of town. At age 19...
9: After a very successful World Championships (winning...
13: Latynina retired after the [[1966]] World Championships, finishing se... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...nd Montenegro''' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]]: Србија и j...
5: ...;едница<br/>Србија и j...
63: ...lly re-admitted to the United Nations in [[2000]] after several years of suspension.
114: ... embarked on an aggressive market reform program. After renewing its membership in the [[International... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
5: ...apyrus'', βύβλος ''bublos'' (said to derive from the name of the ...
10: ...le sheet. The sheet is then dried under pressure. After drying, the sheet of papyrus is polished with ...
19: ...e latest certain dates for the use of papyrus are 1057 for a papal decree and 1087 for an Arabic documen... - California (63989 bytes)
89: ...t [[Economy of California|economy]] in the world (after the rest of the U.S., [[Japan]], [[Germany]], ...
101: ...ly dissolved and abandoned. For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence in 182...
109: ...tant upper California numbered around 4,000. But after gold was discovered, the population burgeoned ...
113: ...ental Railroad|first transcontinental railroad]]. After this rail link was established, hundreds of th...
128: ...urs. Superior Court judges serve six-year terms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike th... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ... relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of the [[Vikings]], [[Sla...
11: ... Christian piety and public interest in religious affairs, which would manifest in the overwhelming po...
23: ...]]s, where the Christian fighters felt they could afford to wreak havoc. All these factors were soon t...
25: ... had conquered the "toe of Italy," Calabria, in [[1057]] and was holding what had traditionally been Byz...
32: ... perhaps bring the East under his control. The disaffected Germans and the Normans were not to be coun... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...ll parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern [[Africa]].
32: ...rkats acquired some fame among the general public after [[David Attenborough]] narrated ''[[Meerkats U...
41: [[bg:Сурикат]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
255: | <small>Africa</small>
696: ...Vatican's official list of popes. Died three days after his election, prior to his consecration as bis...
1142: | <small>[[13 April]] [[1055]] to [[28 July]] [[1057]]</small>
1149: | <small>[[2 August]] [[1057]] to [[29 March]] [[1058]]</small> - Russia (28007 bytes)
6: ...two [[superpower]]s, lay in Russia. Consequently, after the breakup of the USSR, Russia again vied for...
15: ...nasty lasted several centuries, during which they affiliated with the Byzantine, or [[Orthodox]], chur...
19: ...] yoke and was largely spared the atrocities that affected the rest of the country. Nevertheless it ha...
21: ...many of the country's democratic institutions and affected its culture and economy in a very negative ...
23: ...ting its enemies and annexing their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia rema... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
9: ...ng [[plate armour]] that was invented generations after his death.
31: ...ings occurred in the [[Welsh Marches]] and at [[Stafford]]. Most seriously William faced separate atte...
40: ...d not fit in the stone [[sarcophagus]], and burst after some unsuccessful prodding by the assembled [[...
42: ...ngland|Henry]] also became King of England later, after William II died without a child to succeed him...
52: #Richard ([[1057]]-c. [[1081]]), killed by a stag in [[New Forest]... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
3: ...e Empire under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]]. In some respects the Byzantine artis...
27: ...ed much of his reign to reconquering Italy, North Africa and Spain. He also laid the foundations of th...
37: ...ing with the reign of [[Alexius I]] Comnenus in [[1057]]. Although Byzantium was no longer a great power...
41: ...covered the city in [[1261]], the Empire was thereafter a small and weak state confined to the Greek p... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...e the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Frida...
61: ...on the Sunday after the first [[full moon]] on or after the day of the [[vernal equinox]]''. The Churc...
87: ...χα), and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately foll...
96: ...ame bishop of the Roman Christians. Shortly thereafter, Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, traveled to R...
101: After Anicetus, Soter became bishop of Rome. Under ... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
103: ...утия – Sacha/Саха)
105: ...rth Ossetia-Alania]] (Severnaja Osetija-Alanija/Северная... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
92: *[[Michael VI]] Stratioticus (ruled [[1056]] - [[1057]]) – chosen by Theodora
95: *[[Isaac I Comnenus]] (1007-1060, ruled [[1057]] - [[1059]]) - overthrew Michael VI
100: *[[Alexius I Comnenus]] (1057-1118, ruled [[1081]] - [[1118]]) – nephew o... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...1076;орович Стравинс...
5: ...incapable of "expressing anything but itself". Craft also transcribed several interviews with the com...
17: ...gh a notorious philanderer (even rumoured to have affairs with high-class partners such as [[Coco Cha...
19: ...hip and accepted it as inevitable and permanent. After her death Stravinsky and Vera were married in ...
23: ...had a disregard of his social inferiors: Robert Craft was embarrassed by his habit of tapping a glass ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...ter.ogg|listen}} ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Санкт-Пет...
42: ...ion) and the [[Northwestern Federal District]] (Северо-за...
62: ...;1825), famed for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich...
70: ...11), situated on the Nevsky prospect and modelled after [[St. Peter's Basilica|St Peter's, Vatican]]. ...
82: ...;1920), reputedly the largest in Europe, is built after the model of [[Timur]]id temples in [[Samarkan... - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
21: ... but extremely important because they so directly affect value. These are attractiveness, durability,...
97: [[bg:Скъпоцен...
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