Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - 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: ...1085;на Ахматова, Аннk...
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: ...1086;вна Цвѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1...
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... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...a Savitskaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Ев...
3: ...tra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...' ({{lang-ru|Валенти́на Вла...
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].<!--
8: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
9: ...1072; Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big...
12: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
1: ...ackground: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
5: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0
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 ... - 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... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and e...
7: ...1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: ...computation. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hard wood. The beads are counted by moving ...
10: ...ools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (math...
20: device is not beads on wires than the drawing used i...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).