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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... - 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... - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
7: ...queror's children. She was a high-spirited and educated woman, with a knowledge of [[Latin]].
9: ...time between [[1080]] and [[1084]], probably in [[1083]]. Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in...
22: She employed tutors to educate her elder sons, and had her youngest son Henry ... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...90;ерина I Алексеевн...
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 Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: '''Anna Comnena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of the [[Byzantine E...
3: She was her father's favourite and was carefully trained in the study of [[poetry]], [[scie...
5: ...a regards the [[Crusades]] as a danger both political and religious. Her models are [[Thucydides]], [[... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...skaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Евг...
3: ... on [[July 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular ... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...#1085;ти́на Влади́мир&...
5: ...smonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [...
7: ...t woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in this flight was '''Chayka''' ([[English...
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;на Ковалевская) ([[Ja...
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: ...#1043;убаидулина''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]...
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) - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...'' (<font lang="ru">балала́йка</font>) is a s...
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: ...y)<br>Республика Каза...
21: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
23: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]]
31: | '''[[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 | - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...an group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
4: ...al behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's wi...
8: ==A political animal==
14: ...n were the institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (includi...
16: ... for city-state, "Polis". Corporate, religious, academic and every other polity, especially those con... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...ed, cited as either the German [[Polish September Campaign|invasion of Poland]] on [[1 September]] [[1...
6: ...ean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|Midd...
8: ...]'s [[Unit 731]] experiments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front...
10: ...on of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic...
22: ...olonies of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, No... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
42: ...1969]]. His [[Ideology#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left ...
45: .... Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...ere also more [[liberal]], influenced by [[social Catholicism]]. During the [[Dreyfus affair]] the fam...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career==
50: ... was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp. - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...ne, a [[Curtiss JN4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]], and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he started training...
11: ...and custom built by Ryan Airlines of [[San Diego, California]]. He needed 33.5 hours for the trip. (Hi...
13: ... stature following this flight was such that he became an important voice on behalf of aviation activi...
29: .... Lindbergh's letters and diaries of the time indicate that he approved of Nazi policies and of Hitler...
31: ...nterests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of ...
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