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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.
43: [[bg:Висящи град... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
110: [[af:4 November]]
114: [[be:4 лістапада]]
159: [[uk:4 листопада]] - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
7: ...4]]; however, there is some evidence she was born after her father's accession to the [[England|Englis...
9: ... Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in [[1089]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his da...
20: ...overned her husband's estates in his absences and after his death.
24: ...n Stephen seize the English throne, but died soon after. - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...80;на I Алексеевна) ([[April 15...
7: ...nshikov at his home, Peter met Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she...
20: ... of Russia]]|before=[[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]]|after=[[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]]|years=[[1724]]... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...0;на II Алексеевна'': ''Yekateri...
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ... effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of...
13: ...ualistic endeavors. Her reforms went even further after a failed peasant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemel...
15: == Foreign affairs == - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1077;́та (Елисаве́т) Пе...
15: ...e Semyonovsky [[Leib Guard|Guards]] regiment, and after his banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongu...
19: ...ry one else. The merit and glory of that singular affair belong to Elizabeth alone. The fear of being ...
25: ...woman, with little knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenly found herself at the head of a gre...
29: After abolishing the cabinet council system in favor... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...lovna Kollontai''' (Алекса́ндра М...
7: ...od of exile for her earlier political activities. After the Bolshevik revolution in October [[1917]], ...
11: ...in]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally polit... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...] '''София Асгатовна...
45: ...080;шь ты нас, Луиджи? ...
53: ...100; всегда снега)'' on verses of Genn...
56: ...#1055;разднество в раk... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно...
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... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
9: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
76: ...#1089;еленческое Упра... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
51: ...ountry in [[Central Asia]]. It has borders with [[Afghanistan]], [[China]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], and [[Uzbe...
58: ...intain independence. The Bolsheviks would prevail after a four year war, in which [[mosques]] and vill...
62: ...n Tajikistan, in order to guard the border with [[Afghanistan]]. Since the [[September 11th Attacks]],...
67: Almost immediately after independence, Tajikistan was plunged into a ci...
95: ...[[Pyanj River|Pyanj]] rivers mark the border with Afghanistan. - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
6: ...uttle Enterprise]], a Concorde and scores of aircraft. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in [[...
15: ...became the first privately-funded manned [[spacecraft]].
50: ...ram and general aerospace research. It was formed after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the dissol...
56: ...he impoverished instead of being wasted on spacecraft that sometimes don't work. Some examples include...
164: ||[[Space shuttle|Reusable manned spacecraft]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
7: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
18: ...na's first astronaut on the [[Shenzhou 5]] spacecraft. - World War II (58065 bytes)
6: ...rranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|...
8: ...] to a new degree. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are only a few of many [[Techno...
33: ...[Admiral Graf Spee]]''" was sunk in South America after the [[battle of the River Plate]].
46: ...ritain's skies. The Luftwaffe initially targeted RAF Fighter Command, but turned to terror bombing Lon...
58: ...about three transport planes every five minutes). After a week it was decided that so many German troo... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
55: The Russian abacus, the [[schoty]] or sjotty (счёты), usually has a sing... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
52: ...eans that the graph is flat and the device is not affected by temperature changes.
109: ...minish in brightness. If shunted with a resistor after being stimulated, they stop glowing immediatel...
162: ...into short circuits, which can be dangerous. For safety purposes, all large capacitors should be disch...
164: ...ce all of the electrolyte-based caps out of hand. After long storage electrolytic capacitors may deter...
179: Capacitors may retain a charge long after power is removed from a circuit; this charge c... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
12: ...[[Straits of Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with pi...
48: ... of the prize. Pirates injured in battle might be afforded special compensation. Often all of these te...
60: ...gings of the crew and the contents of the ship's safe, which might contain large amounts of cash neede...
62: ...wer cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic control making them prime targets for piracy.
82: ...ed the sea for their [[hit and run]] tactics - a safe place to retreat to if battle turned against the... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... or '''Russia''' (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'...
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 ... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
10: Because of the Russians' dominance in the affairs of the union, the RSFSR failed to develop so...
16: ...tion of the plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three days.
20: ...ation could be established. In December, one week after the Ukrainian Republic approved independence b...
22: In October 1991, during the "honeymoon" period after his resistance to the Soviet coup, Yeltsin con...
24: ...liament was the supreme organ of power in Russia. After Russia added the office of president in 1991, ...
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