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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: ...[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interpretation]]
3: ...[[Babylon]] were considered one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. They were both supposedly buil...
5: ...t completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ... possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to th...
8: ...'s History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. --> - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitr...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
12: ...bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Republican]... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
2: ...an.jpg|center|250px]]|birth=[[625]]¹|death=[[December 16]], [[705]]|family_name=Wu (武)|pos...
9: ...#8212;—<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of Tang]]''
10: ...iled in<br>941-945, is [[623]]. The year of birth deducted from the<br>[[Comprehensive Mirror for Aid ...
11: ...everted to the rank of [[empress consort]] on her death, so<br>that she does not have a temple name. I...
14: ...by [[Confucian]] historians but has been viewed under a different light after the 1950s. - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
5: '''Adela of Blois''' (c. [[1067]] - [[March 8]], [[1137]...
7: ... [[1060]] and [[1064]]; however, there is some evidence she was born after her father's accession to t...
9: ...Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along with his brother-in-law [[Robert Curthos...
11: Adela and Stephen's children were:
20: ...r husband's estates in his absences and after his death. - 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: ...' (''Анна Ахматова, Аl...
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... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...#1072; Влади́мировна Т...
9: ...force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order. - 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... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...90;ынина'''; born [[December 27]], [[1934]] in [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian ...
5: ...r choreographer moved out of town. At age 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World C...
9: ...rgin of 9 points. Latynina also successfully defended her floor title, while winning silver medals in ...
11: Still the defending World Champion at the [[1964 Summer Olympi... - 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 [[... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ...efending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzantine...
5: ...tate expanded in various directions so that it bordered [[China]] in the East and the Byzantine Empire...
7: ...s]] invaded [[Anatolia]] in the [[1260s]] and divided it into small [[emirates]] called the [[Anatolia...
35: ...[Hussain Omar of Kerman|Hussain Omar]] [[1075]]-[[1084]]
36: * [[Turan Shah I]] [[1084]]-[[1096]] - 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. - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
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9: date_of_death=[[January 30]], [[1948]] |
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
13: ...who brought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[British India|British colonial rule]] t...
15: ... truth" or "pursuit of truth", has inspired other democratic activists, including [[Martin Luther King... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
4: ...4]], most notably in [[Kirtland, Ohio]], [[Independence, Missouri]], and [[Nauvoo, Illinois]]. However...
6: ...s Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Under Young's leadership, about 13,000 Mormon citizens of Nauvoo set ...
10: ... and felt the isolated [[Great Basin]] would provide the Saints with many advantages.
12: ...blished [[Oregon Trail]] on the river’s south side.
14: ...ne.<ref>Bennett, p. 6.</ref> To try to meet this deadline and to get an early start on the trek to th... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...iday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...n]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover l...
6: ... fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any link.
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59: ...ed on a [[lunar calendar]] similar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The preci... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
1: ...krit]] ( from ''hima'' "snow", and ''aalaya'' "abode"). The correct name for the range is Himalaya, th...
3: ...the Himalayan rivers, which also includes [[Bangladesh]].
10: ... called the ''Higher Himalaya'' and is also the oldest of the three. It has an elevation of more than ...
12: ...ltitude. While the sub-Himalayan range exhibits [[deciduous]] forests, the vegetation graduates to [[t...
14: ...], [[Uttaranchal]], [[Sikkim]] and [[Arunachal Pradesh]] lie mostly in the Himalayas. - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ...] and [[Soviet]] rules and under the relgious leadership of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].
9: ...paintings in Russia are unique because they are made to help people with prayers instead of idolizing ...
11: ===Russian avant garde===
12: {{Main|Russian avant garde}}
13: ...g|left|Thumb|150px|An example of Russian avant garde art by El Lissitzky in 1919]] - 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
55: | [[Sardinia]] (Sardegna)
73: | [[Madeira]]
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