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- 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: ...1085;а Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old St...
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... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1072; Сави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], i...
3: ...tra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1085;а Терешко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], ...
7: ...Seagull]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for fur...
9: ...force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[188...
3: ...ged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; ...
5: ...) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation o...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial differential equation]]s (t...
9: ...to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her... - 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... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...алала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Rus...
5: The modern balalaika is found in six sizes:
16: The piccolo, prima, and secunda balalaikas are ideally strung with gut (or, today, usually [[nylon]]...
18: ...an play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] to do so.
20: ...ings, it is not uncommon for the plectrum to be made of a leather [[shoe]] or [[boot]] [[heel]]. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ... is located in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of Chi...
3: ...464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
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9: ...#1077;спублика Казахс...
12: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...[[Kyrgyz revolution of 2005|revolution]] and President Akayev's resignation on [[April 4]], [[2005]], ...
17: ...itles = [[President of Kyrgyzstan|President]]<br> [[Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan|Prime Mini...
18: leader_names = [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]] (actin...
20: area = 198,500 |area_magnitude=1 E11|
28: population_density = 25 | - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
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24: | '''[[List of Presidents of Tajikistan|President]]'''
33: ...tal (2003)<br/> – [[Population density|Density]]
36: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br/> – Date - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ... is a [[republic]] in eastern [[Europe]] which borders [[Russia]] to the east, [[Belarus]] to the nort...
3: ...re only established in [[1954]]. It became independent once more following the [[fall of the Soviet Un...
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6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina''...
12: | [[Image:Trident_02.jpg|125px|Ukraine: Coat of Arms]] - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ...gether and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
9: ...a domesticated different species of cotton independently thousands of years ago.
13: ...preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the ends of its...
28: ...able. Historically, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton production has been the ...
30: ...on is a perennial crop in the tropics and without defoliation or freezing, the plant will continue to ... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...e, and politics regarding [[outer space|space]] endeavors. One of the most famous and important aspec...
4: ... technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, b...
6: ... one place: [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]], a Concorde and scores of aircraft. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket...
11: ...rface. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ...ovember 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], carrying [[Yur... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...s of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI definition. Those who have achieved this are said to...
7: ...072;вт ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "un...
9: ...[[Norman Thagard]] became the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, argua...
11: European (outside of the [[UK]]) space travellers are called '''spa...
20: ...26 years old when he flew [[Vostok 2]], and the oldest is [[John Glenn]] who was 77 when he flew on [[... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ... group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
9: ...tion of human associations. Hobbes described an ideal [[state of nature]] wherein every person had eq...
11:
14: ...rs), taxation, and writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities. - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...er of debate. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish Septemb...
6: ...il [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 August]] [[1945]] ([[V-J Day]]).
8: ...Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians]] to a new degree. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[...
10: ...d States' military occupation of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Co...
16: ...ed in the war, more or less voluntarily, on the side of the power that in their neighbourhood was the ... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...] family, it inhabits all parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern [[Africa]].
19: ... some sort of singing ceremony they compared to yodeling.
22: ...y strong venom of the scorpions of the [[Kalahari Desert]].
24: ...t one month old, and they do so by following an older member of the group who acts as the pup's tutor....
28: ...Meerkats are burrowing animals, living in large underground networks with multiple entrances which the... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...ndonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Bangladesh]].
4: ... Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
15: ...e and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...nd]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north fr...
19: ...y. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region.
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