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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. - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same n...
7: ...t inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ... after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place...
13: ...Guanabara was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January Rive...
15: ...ntic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built an... - 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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three day...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Pi...
12: ... of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Un... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...#1048;вановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] - [[October 28]],[[174...
17: ...ecially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ...over her policies. His archrival, the anti-German cabinet minister [[Artemy Petrovich Volynsky]], was ...
24: ...ern boundaries which was brought to fruition by [[Catherine the Great]]. Anna's reign saw the beginnin...
28: ... big cheek, "which, as shown in her portraits," [[Carlyle]] says, "was comparable to a Westphalian ham... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...#1077;ксеевна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 1...
5: ...rced to work in the laundry of the regiment which captured her.
7: Later she was sent to, and became the mistress of, Prince [[Aleksandr Danilovich ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|e...
5: ...om illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's supporters.
9: ... de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine drew up a document to reform the code of l...
11: ... control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored nobles...
13: ...rine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans in the government and...
7: ...hat time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ... good, if not brilliant, but unfortunately her education was both imperfect and desultory. Her father ...
11: ...incess found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...ov and hated the memory of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabet... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...hus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930...
5: ...i did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to j...
7: ...cy and educating women about the new marriage, education, and working laws put in place by the Revolut...
11: ...er which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1062;вѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]],...
8: ... fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristo...
10: ...Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension b...
12: ...Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in climate could...
14: ...g Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...Сави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Mos...
3: ... on [[July 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular ... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...решко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[S...
5: ...smonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [...
7: ...]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further fe...
9: ...o her prominence she was chosen for several political positions: From [[1966]] to [[1974]] she was a m... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1074;алевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[Februa...
5: ... Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than h...
7: ...ding of [[partial differential equation]]s (the [[Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially compl...
11: ...to have stuck for when she later took calculus it came to her very quickly, as if it had always been t...
15: ...ical study, calling her "a new [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]" in the process. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1:
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: ...#1051;атынина'''; born [[December 27]], [[1934]] in [[Kherson]...
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... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...лала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Russia]]n ...
18: ...e a [[plectrum]] is used on the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is consid...
26: ... be moved around by the player at will (as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the [[mic...
28: ...th the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], ...
30: ...istory, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the ''skomorokhi'', who were gen... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Turkmenistan]], and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic ...
9: ...#1050;азахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
21: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
23: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]]
31: | '''[[Capital]]''' - 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]]''' - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...signation on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the political situation in the country remains uncertain.
11: image_map = LocationKyrgyzstan.png |
14: capital = [[Bishkek]] |
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $2,061 |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 144 |
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