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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]... - 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... - 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: ...1077;евна Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[18...
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: ...'' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Марина Иван...
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: ...1088;овна Терешко́ва}...
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... - 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: ...080; Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i C...
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...
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28: population_density = 25 | - 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'''</big>...
12: | [[Image:Trident_02.jpg|125px|Ukraine: Coat of Arms]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
4: ...g San]], Commander in Chief of the [[Burma Independence Army]]
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of '...
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
23: ...iba|Ueshiba, Morihei]], (1883-1969), Japanese founder of [[aikido]]
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...monly called "stomach '''flu'''" (and widely misunderstood as being instances of influenza), see [[gas...
2: ...e the causative agent of the [[Hong Kong Flu]] pandemic. ]]
4: ...ges in the virus have caused three influenza [[pandemics]] in the [[20th century|20<sup>th</sup> centu...
12: ...sistance to influenza B and C because they only undergo [[antigenic drift]] and have more similarity w...
14: .... Only one H subtype and one N subtype have been identified for influenza B virus. At present, the mos... - 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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...s]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on num...
6: ...] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
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29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]]...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
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