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  1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
    3: ...on|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as to whet...
    15: ...chadnezzar's homesick wife, [[Amyitis]]. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Ne...
    43: [[bg:Висящи гра&#1076...
    46: [[da:Babylons h殧ende haver]]
    54: [[pt:Jardins suspensos da Babil󮩡]]
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
    4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
    7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
    37: ...en 500 million and 1 billion [[US dollar|USD]] of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be [[arson]].
  3. Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
    5: ...[[Blois]], [[Chartres]], and [[Meaux]]. She was a daughter of [[William I of England|William the Conqu...
    7: Her birthdate is generally believed to have been between [[10...
    9: ...89]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his day. He was a proud and self-indulgent man, who had ...
    24: ...status of her children. Later that same year, her daughter Lucia-Mahaut was drowned in the wreck of th...
  4. Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
    3: ...#1085;а) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 17]],[[1727]]) was the second wife of [[P...
    5: ...ven the birthname of Marfa Skavronska and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peas...
    7: ...o, and became the mistress of, Prince [[Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov|Aleksandr Menshikov]], the best...
    20: ...r=[[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]]|years=[[1724]]&ndash;[[1727]]<br>''with [[Peter the Great|Peter I]] ...
  5. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
    2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
    5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
    9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
    25: ...ulminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. T...
  6. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
    3: ...f the [[University of Moscow]] and Shuvalov's foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of ...
    7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of...
    9: ...e had a French governess, however, and at a later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and ...
    11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but ...
    13: ... of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabeth had inherited her fat...
  7. Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
    1: ...1095;) ([[March 31]] ([[March 19]], [[Julian calendar|O.S.]]), [[1872]] - [[March 9]], [[1952]]) was a...
    17: ...on: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai'', with [[Glenda Jackson]] as the voice of Kollontai.
  8. Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
    1: ...&#1082;&#1072;&#1103;) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&ndash;[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia]]n [...
    5: ...a Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schubert]] aka [[Fyodor Ivano...
    19: ...ings pieces of which I'll try to slip in here one day =)-->
  9. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    1: ...] '''&#1057;&#1086;&#1092;&#1080;&#1103; &#1040;&#1089;&#1075;&#1072;&#1090;&#1086;&#1074;&#1085;&#1072;...
    11: ...h and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
    22: *''Concordanza'' for chamber ensemble (1971)
    45: ...080;&#1096;&#1100; &#1090;&#1099; &#1085;&#1072;&#1089;, &#1051;&#1091;&#1080;&#1076;&#1078;&#1080;? &#1...
    49: *''Lauda'' for alto, tenor, baritone, narrator, mixed choi...
  10. Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
    3: ...18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
    7: ...nt with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and two silvers.
    9: ... defended her floor title, while winning silver medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Fina...
    11: ...total of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze.
  11. Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
    9: ...1082;&#1072; &#1050;&#1072;&#1079;&#1072;&#1093;&#1089;&#1090;&#1072;&#1085;<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
    41: | [[Daniyal Akhmetov]]
    72: ...o the Great, Middle and Little (or Small) Hordes&mdash;confederations based on extended family network...
    76: ...#1089;&#1077;&#1083;&#1077;&#1085;&#1095;&#1077;&#1089;&#1082;&#1086;&#1077; &#1059;&#1087;&#1088;&#1072...
    78: ...n|Soviet]] rule. In [[1920]], the area of present-day Kazakhstan became an [[Republics of Russia|auton...
  12. Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
    30: ...''[[Area]]'''<br/>&nbsp;&ndash; Total<br/>&nbsp;&ndash; % water
    33: ...n]]'''<br/>&nbsp;&ndash; Total (2003)<br/>&nbsp;&ndash; [[Population density|Density]]
    36: ... Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br/>&nbsp;&ndash; Date
    51: ...n''' (&#1058;&#1086;&#1207;&#1080;&#1082;&#1080;&#1089;&#1090;&#1086;&#1085;), formerly known as the ''T...
    62: ...ader of the nation, and continues to rule to this day. However, he has been accused of ethnic cleansin...
  13. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    11: ...s sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
    22: ... is the government department responsible for Canada's space programme.
    28: ...hing 14 orbits before returning to Earth the next day.
    33: ...hich has grown to be a much bigger organisation today.
    44: ...rmed [[October 1]], [[2003]], by the merger of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and t...
  14. Astronaut (7339 bytes)
    3: ...al of 27,876 crew-days in space including 99 crew-days of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI...
    7: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word &#1082;&#1086;&#1089;&#1084;&#1086;&#1085;&#1072;&#1074;&#1090; ''(kos...
    20: ... on [[STS-95]]. The longest stay in space was 438 days by [[Valeri Polyakov]]. [[As of 2005]], the mos...
    24: ...United States, persons selected as astronaut candidates receive silver [[Astronaut wings]]. Once they ...
    28: ...ny]], in [[1983]] by [[Canadian space program|Canada]], in [[1985]] by [[Japan]] and [[Italy]] in [[19...
  15. World War II (58065 bytes)
    4: ...ses of the war]] are a matter of debate. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either ...
    6: ...an surrendered]] on [[15 August]] [[1945]] ([[V-J Day]]).
    8: ...ee. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are only a few of many [[Technology during Wor...
    10: ...y as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which were fundamental to the ensuing [[Cold War]]. In Asia, the U...
    18: ...id they supply the Axis powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
  16. Abacus (7218 bytes)
    26: .... The beads in the shorter grooves denote fives&mdash;five units, five tens, ''etc.'', essentially in...
    43: The size of beads of soroban is standardized, the Japanese classified soroban for native...
    55: The Russian abacus, the [[schoty]] or sjotty (&#1089;&#1095;&#1105;&#1090;&#1099;), usually has a sing...
    57: The Russian abacus is still in common use today in shops and markets throughout the [[Commonweal...
    64: ... system of knotted cords used to record numerical data - like advanced [[tally stick]]s - but was not ...
  17. Capacitor (29664 bytes)
    7: ...s stored at the surface of the plates, at the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores...
    34: The [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
    38: Applying the [[Laplace transform]], the impedance becomes:
    70: ...rief summary to that article ? --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 22:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC) -->
    80: ...pacitance and little DC leakage, and very low impedance at low frequencies. However, unlike aluminum e...
  18. Pirate (23151 bytes)
    2: ...eedboat]]s wearing [[balaclava]]s instead of [[bandana]]s, using [[AK-47]]s rather than [[cutlass]]es.
    4: ...s also much reduced in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from days of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport vess...
    32: ===Effects on international boundaries===
    38: ...l waters|high seas]], inhibiting [[trade]], and endangering maritime communication were considered by ...
    104: ...tember 19]] is [[International Talk Like a Pirate Day]].
  19. Russia (28007 bytes)
    2: ...e the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population, fo...
    17: ...uled the southern and central expanses of present-day Russia, while its western zone was largely incor...
    27: ...n Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, and...
    43: ...#1072;&#1103; &#1044;&#1091;&#1084;&#1072;, ''Gosudarstvennaya Duma''), comprising 450 ''deputies'' al...
    58: ...tries, the great area south of these still accommodates a great variety of landscapes and [[climate]]s...
  20. Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
    4: ...ution, the two branches continued to represent fundamentally opposing visions of Russia's future. The ...
    8: ...igned by Russia and three other union republics &mdash; Belarus, Ukraine, and what was then the Transc...
    12: ...t in June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.
    16: ...plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three days.
    18: Following the failed coup, Gorbachev found a fundamentally changed constellation of power, with Yelt...

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