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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...er, there are doubts as to whether they ever physically existed.
5: ... Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accru...
7: ...ools of thought think that through the ages the location may have been confused with gardens that exis...
15: ...ate an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous...
17: ...just "hanging” but "overhanging," as in the case of a terrace or balcony. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...th higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...d alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...ults in an alloy containing too much carbon to be called steel.
11: ...ub>3</sub>C. Cementite forms in regions of higher carbon content while other areas revert to ferrite a...
13: ...t cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely lit... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#769;ньевна Сави́цка&...
3: ... on [[July 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...ubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''София Асг...
5: ...sponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by...
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s ...
19: *''Night in Memphis'' cantata (1968)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...: '''Лариса Семёновн...
11: ...as beaten in the all-around competition by [[Vera Caslavska|Věra Čᳬavsk of [[Czecho...
13: ...ips, finishing second with the Soviet team, and became a gymnastics trainer. She is a citizen of [[Rus... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...ce [[2003]] in a loose [[confederation]]. It is located on the west-central [[Balkan Peninsula]].
3: ...eek full independence via a [[referendum]], which can be held in 2006 at the earliest.
5: ...043;ора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i Crna Gora'''</big><br/>State Union o...
17: | align=center colspan=2 | [[Image:LocationSerbiaAndMontenegro.png]]
25: | '''[[Capital]]''' - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
13: ... the roll's length were on one side, all the vertical fibres on the other. Greek texts were written on...
15: ...[[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been partially excavated.
17: ...the codex form, and in the Gr棯-Roman world it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls in orde...
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)
2: Name = California|
3: Fullname = State of California ! |
4: Flag = California state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of California]] |
6: Seal = California state seal.png | - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crus...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ...ry, combined with the relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of t...
9: ...ose who were killed in battle. Even today Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstine...
11: ...o marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religious cont... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
2: ...[[Image:Meerkat_Calgary_zoo.jpg|200px|Meerkat]] | caption = }}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Carnivora]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = '''''Suricata'''''}}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''S. suricatta'''''}}
12: ...ens | color = pink | binomial_name = Suricata suricatta | author = [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schre... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...lti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]...
6: ...Apostles]], [[Supreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [...
7: ... has been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]). - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...twice the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population...
4: ...mber [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Repu...
13: ...entury]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribe...
15: ...y|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous,...
17: ... Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...a]], the daughter of a tanner. Born in [[Falaise, Calvados, France|Falaise]], [[Normandy]], now in [[F...
12: ...he Unready]] and later of King [[Canute the Great|Canute]].
14: ...ormandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at [[Caen]] in the [[Battle of Val-賭Dunes]] in [[1047]]...
16: ... of the [[Pope Leo IX|pope]] in [[1053]] at the [[Cathedral of Notre Dame]] at [[Eu, Seine-Maritime|Eu...
18: ...]] and [[Robert, Count of Mortain]] played significant roles in his life. - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
3: ...her respects part of western European culture. It can also be used for the art of peoples of the forme...
7: ... man, the purpose of Byzantine art was the glorification of [[God]], and particularly of his son, [[Je...
9: ...the male nude had been at the centre of the classical artistic tradition from its beginnings, and the ...
11: ...yrs]] of Christian tradition were elevated, and became the dominant - indeed almost exclusive - focus ...
13: ...that some of the technical expertise of the classical world, particularly in sculpture, was lost in th... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ut this time of year around AD 30-33. (''Easter'' can also refer to the season of the church year, las...
4: ...ughter of the Passover lambs (perhaps for theological reasons). This would put the Last Supper slightl...
6: ...]] and [[historian]] [[Bede]], this month was dedicated to the [[pagan]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostr...
59: ...lar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The precise date of Easter has often bee...
61: ...stern Orthodox churches use the original [[Julian calendar]], their dates are not usually aligned in t... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
6: ! Category
35: | [[Macau]] (?m鮯澳门 – Macau)
103: ...утия – Sacha/Саха)
105: ...;лания – Caegat Iryston/Ц榡mp;#1075;ат ...
174: ...special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao dependencies instead of autonomous regions, rega... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ...o mark the start of the [[medieval]] period), [[Arcadius]] (treating [[Theodosius I]] as the last empe...
16: *[[Arcadius]], (377-408, ruled [[395]] - [[408]]) –...
17: ...01-450, ruled [[408]] - [[450]]) – son of Arcadius
18: ... ruled [[450]] - [[457]]) – son-in-law of Arcadius, brother-in-law of Theodosius II
35: *[[Phocas]] the Tyrant (???-610, ruled [[602]] - [[610]]) ... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...broad spectrum of ensemble combinations and classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symp...
5: ...c''. In it, he famously claimed that music was incapable of "expressing anything but itself". Craft ...
10: ...ter. In [[1902]], at the age of 20, Stravinsky became the pupil of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], proba...
14: ..., but Stravinsky also collaborated with [[Pablo Picasso]] (''Pulcinella'', 1920), [[Jean Cocteau]] (''...
16: ...]] collaborated on ''Pulcinella'' in [[1920]]. Picasso took the opportunity to make several sketches ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
17: | [[Geographic coordinate system|Location]]: || {{coor dm|59|56|N|30|20|E|region:RU_typ...
33: ..._spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...69;д, [[1914]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the...
38: ... "window to Europe", it served thenceforth as the capital of the country during the [[Russian Empire|i...
40: ...nd to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (северн... - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
1: ...cut or faceted and polished is [[collectible]] or can be used in [[jewellery]]. Others are organic, su...
4: ==Charateristics and classification==
5: ...composition]]. Diamonds for example are made of [[carbon]] (C), rubies of [[aluminium]] oxide (Al<sub>...
9: ...a certain [[specific gravity]], a certain [[Mohs scale of mineral hardness|hardness]], a certain [[cle...
11: ...ifferent characteristics which may aid in identification.
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