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- 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. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...ession]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with her f...
8: ==Immigration to America==
9: ... legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
18: ... despite the testimonies of twelve witnesses that came to her defense. Instead the jury based their ve... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
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.
16: ...ribed in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ... and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained trac...
9: ...n [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] af...
17: ...om the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the scandal's effect on the public was all the more acute...
19: ...he purified. Promptly after the war started, she cashed in her and her husband's [[gold]] Nobel Prize... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
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: ...e musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and Russian s...
30: ...istory, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the ''skomorokhi'', who were gen...
45: ...nt]]s in the early 20th Century. One notable U.S. cabaret-style player was New York's [[Sasha Polinoff... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Turkmenistan]], and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic ...
21: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
23: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]]
31: | '''[[Capital]]'''
64: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]''' - 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 | - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
13: ...colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" |[[image:LocationTajikistan.png]]
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
45: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
58: ...ntrol of Tajikistan. After the overthrow of the [[Tsar]] in [[1917]], Tajik guerillas waged a war agains...
60: ...d other Soviet Republics in living conditions, education and industry. In the [[1970s]] Islamic underg... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ... as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</smal...
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]]...
27: ...he following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
41: ...ople is liberated by the Byzantine emperor of [[Nicaea]], Michael Palaeologus. - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ... executed, and some of the century's first large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Fou...
4: ...omatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
6: ... failure to resolve the unsettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the ris...
8: ...orld War I as merely the first phase of a three-decade long war spanning the period [[1914]]–[[1...
10: ...were confined to trenches and could move little because of tight defences. This was especially true of... - Chin (993 bytes)
11: * In [[tsar]]ist [[Russia]], [[chin]] was a rank given to a c...
13: ...]. Noted examples of people with butt chins are [[Cary Grant]] and [[Sandra Bullock]]. - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...der the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome accumulated a col...
5: ...pire is traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed the last Emperor and sent the Imperial...
7: Because the empire of Rome lasted for such a long peri...
9: ...he situation was far more nuanced: certain historical forms continued until the [[Byzantine]] period, ...
11: ...History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and the [[German Empire]] (see [[Kaiser... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
1: ...e:aug11_01.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bust of Augustus Caesar]]
3: ...leopatra VII of Egypt]] to emerge victoriously as Caesar Augustus and the first [[Roman Emperor]].
5: He would complete Caesar's dreams of unifying Rome under one man by re...
7: ... for the Empire for over 400 years. His surname [[Caesar]] and title [[Augustus]] would be taken by al...
10: ..., the niece of [[Julius Caesar]], making Octavian Caesar’s great nephew. - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: ...number)|82]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (83rd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 283 ...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: ...[[Second War of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] m...
9: *[[1775]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers ...
10: *[[1801]] - [[Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia]] is struck with a sword, th... - 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... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
1: ...in [[leap year]]s) of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 160 days remaining.
3: {{JulyCalendar}}
7: ...]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
10: ...tle of Kernstown]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Jubal Anderson Early|Juba...
11: ... the [[United States|Union]] following the [[American Civil War]]. - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
4: A [[bicameralism|bicameral]] Congress was created as a result of the [[...
6: ...] building, in [[Washington, D.C.]], the national capital. The Senate convenes in the north wing of th...
9: ...ed the [[New Jersey Plan]], which called for a unicameral Congress with equal representation for the s...
11: ...avery and other issues persisted until the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] ([[1861]]–[[1865]]),...
13: ...he electorate. Both the Democratic nor the Republican Party held majorities in the House at various ti... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
15: |''[[Acadia]]''||''[[Ave Maris Stella]] (Star of the Sea, ...
21: ...||''[[Let_us_all_unite_and_celebrate_together|African Union Anthem]]
27: |''[[American Samoa]]''||''[[Amerika Samoa]]''
29: |[[Andorra]]||[[El Gran Carlemany]] (The Great Charlemagne)
99: |[[Cambodia]]||[[Nokoreach]] - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
12: ...esieged the city of [[Sevastopol]], home of the [[tsar]]'s [[Black Sea]] fleet and a threat of future Ru...
14: ...t, and died on [[30 June]] [[1855]]. The city was captured in [[September]] [[1855]].
20: ...tion of Sevastopol and the accession of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]] peace negotiations be...
22: ...e depopulation in the peninsula. Crimean Tatars became a minority in their homeland.
25: ...s. The Crimean War also introduced the first tactical use of [[railway]]s. - Borzoi (4195 bytes)
23: !Classification
29: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: ||Hound
33: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: ||Group 2 - Hounds
45: .../www.ankc.aust.com/borzoi.html ANKC], [http://www.canadasguidetodogs.com/hounds/borzoiarticle1.htm CKC...
47: ...rzoi''' is a [[dog breeds|breed]] of [[dog]] also called the '''Russian [[Wolfhound]]'''.
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