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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. - 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: ... Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in [[1089]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his da...
22: She employed tutors to educate her elder sons, and had her youngest son Henry ... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...80;на I Алексеевна) ([[April 15...
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. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&...
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: ...] '''София Асгатовна...
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: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно...
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... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Turkmenistan]], and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic ...
9: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
21: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
23: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]]
31: | '''[[Capital]]''' - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
13: ...colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" |[[image:LocationTajikistan.png]]
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
45: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
51: ...n''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the ''T...
58: ...o [[Central Asia]]. During the [[Great Game]], it came in control of Tajikistan. After the overthrow o... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: '''Space exploration''' is the physical exploration of outer-[[Earth]] objects and gener...
4: ...tronger and lighter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-...
6: ...le trainers, and the original [[Apollo 16]] space capsule.
13: ...al flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[April 12]] [[1961]].
15: ...ght. On [[June 21]], [[2004]], [[SpaceShipOne]] became the first privately-funded manned [[spacecraft]... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...00px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuvering unit. Pictu...
3: ...space travel|travels into space]], or who makes a career of doing so. The criteria for determining who...
7: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
9: ... launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
11: ...nd, to a lesser extent, the United States of America. - 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... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: An '''abacus''' is a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden fram...
8: ...ing them up or down towards the beam. The abacus can be reset to the starting position instantly by a...
10: ...an techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (mathematics)|division]], [[add...
12: '''Bead arithmetic''' is the calculating technique used with various types of aba...
26: The groove marked I indicates units, X tens, and so on up to millions. The ... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...'every''' multi-[[conductor]] [[geometry]] has '''capacitance'''.
4: == Physics of the capacitor ==
7: ...e plates, at the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge...
9: ...es. (The air gap is shown for clarity; in a real capacitor, the dielectric is in direct contact with ...
11: === Capacitance === - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...s ''piracy''. Unlike the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] pirate with [[cutlass]] and masted [[sailing s...
4: ...ically in the straits of [[Strait of Malacca|Malacca]] and [[Singapore]], used by over 50,000 commerci...
8: ...ter became their governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...ion]]s and [[coup d'etat|coups]] and then finally came to mean the disruptive parliamentary maneuver o...
12: ...nally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the 15th century. - 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... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...sed military force to dissolve the parliament and called for new legislative elections (''see'' [[Russ...
4: ...ontinued to wane as Russia's regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Althou...
6: ==Historical background==
8: ...t politics and government; they also controlled local administration.
10: ...d the creation or strengthening of various specifically Russian institutions in the RSFSR. Certain pol...
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