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- Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...a Ivanovna''' (In [[Russian language|Russian]]: Анна Иван...
7: ...]], as her adviser. She never remarried after the death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies...
10: ...in [[1730]]. They had hoped that she would feel indebted to the nobles for her unexpected fortune and ...
17: ... specially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ...le hands of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...er, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...sant. She was married at the age of 17 to a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[dragoon]], having been working at th...
20: ...4]]-[[1725]]''<br>''De-facto ruler Prince [[Alexander Menshikov]] [[1725]]-[[1727]]''}} - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ne of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930s]].
5: ...Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislik...
7: ... known for founding the [[Zhenodtel]] or "Women's Department" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to...
11: ... Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ... [[Sweden]]. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died i... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...86;ва, Анна Андреевн...
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been ...
9: ...ith several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...ov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively silence...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more pro... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...ervatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nik...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group w...
11: ...). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work t...
15: ...f a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occ... - Printing (4400 bytes)
3: ...zlamywak.jpg|right|thumb|The [[folding machine|folder]] of newspaper web offset printing press]]
11: ...le type]] printer was invented by [[Pi Sheng]] in 1040. The movable type metal printing press was invent...
13: ... design of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and movable type and fro...
15: ...7 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in England by [[William Caxton]]; in 1539,...
18: ...efelder]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth centur... - Timeline of United States history (1990-present) (6005 bytes)
5: *[[1990]] - [[Iraq]] invades [[Kuwait]] leading to [[1991]] [[Gulf War]]
7: ...1991]] - [[Oakland Hills firestorm]] kills 25 and destroys 3469 homes and apartments
11: *[[1992]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1992]]
12: *[[1993]] - [[Bill Clinton]] becomes President
13: ...ade Center bombing]] kills 6 and injures at least 1040 - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
3: ... Wheel]] Bus, a hybrid bus with an in wheel motor design. |300px]]
6: ...ference between a motor and a generator is one of design optimization only. ''See also [[motor-genera...
8: ...In the [[import scene]], hybrid was often used to describe an [[engine swap]], such as the common Hond...
12: ...l | accessdate=May 15 | accessyear=2000}} never made it into production as the program was replaced by...
14: ...[[nuclear power]], which can operate underwater indefinitely, though a number of nations continue to r... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
6: ...[45 BC]] - In his last victory, [[Julius Caesar]] defeats the [[Pompey|Pompeian]] forces of [[Titus La...
11: ...], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|Ki...
16: ...Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
21: ...rt]] is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
28: ...s with suppressing information related to the incident. - Des Moines, Iowa (13222 bytes)
2: ...300px|The State Capitol of Iowa, featuring its golden dome.]]
4: ...ncorporated on [[September 22]], [[1851]] as Fort Des Moines.
5: ...nes" in [[1857]]. [http://www.ci.des-moines.ia.us/departments/AC/Information/AChistoricalinfo.htm]
8: ...iver]] (from [[French language|French]] ''Rivi貥 des Moines'', i.e. "River of the Monks") and [[Racco...
9: [[Image:Iowa_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...th approximately 940 [[million]] followers worldwide, 96 percent of whom live in the [[Indian subconti...
15: ...not claim sole understanding of the one [[transcendental]] Truth.
17: ... the Hindu, this idea has been an active force in defining the 'Eternal Dharma.'[http://www.ramakrishn...
19: ...n [[Moksha]], the end of the cycle of rebirth and death.
23: ...nu]] (the Preserver of worlds) and [[Shiva]] (the Destroyer of worlds). - Cadmium (10755 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
42: | [[van der Waals radius]]
51: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Neodymium (12345 bytes)
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16: ...] </td><td>[[Lanthanide]]s</td></tr>
20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td>...
32: <td>[[van der Waals radius]] </td><td>... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish... - Pre-experimental science (6447 bytes)
1: ...particular religious community. An account of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient tim...
4: ...-scale workings of the universe, which led to his development of a comprehensive theory of physics in ...
6: ....g. [[planet]]s and [[star]]s - were supposedly made of.)
10: ...in an experiment could never produce results that described nature as it was in the world around them.
12: ...mined that air was not elemental. This led to the development of [[phlogiston theory]] and later to [[... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
1: Several countries have autonomous entities inside their territory, usually giving autonomy to ethni...
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38: | 1 autonomous province under international law
43: ...ny – Apkazeti – Abchazija/Абхазия)
55: | [[Sardinia]] (Sardegna) - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
5: ...ally, around 90% of the volume of an iceberg is underwater, and that portion's shape can be difficult ...
9: ... famous sinking from an iceberg collision was the destruction of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] o...
13: ...ntage]] of what a whole iceberg might look like under water]]
16: ...; to 90° W ([[Bellingshausen Sea]], [[Weddell Sea]])
17: *'''B''' – longitude 90° W to 180° ([[Amundsen Sea]], Eastern [[Ross Sea]]) - Tool (5792 bytes)
1: :''This page discusses common devices known as "tools", for other meanings see [[T...
3: [[image:Hammer.jpg|right|thumb|Modern hammer]]
5: ...ool''' is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishin...
8: ...hought that only [[human]]s used tools, and often defined humans as tool-using animals. But observatio...
12: ... verb can also mean "to travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive".
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