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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. --> - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...eiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|I...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The... - 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]... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...1085;на Ивановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] -...
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]... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled... - 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: ...1072; Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old Style and...
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... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1080;на Ивановна Цвѣт...
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1072; Терешко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]...
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... - 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... - 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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37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]''' - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...republics united since [[2003]] in a loose [[confederation]]. It is located on the west-central [[Balk...
3: ...egro. Each of the two states may seek full independence via a [[referendum]], which can be held in 200...
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5: ...72; и Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srb...
8: {| 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 - 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 ...
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