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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...[[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful description...
13: ...fe, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]]
15: ...] depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with roofto...
43: ...076;ини на Вавилон]]
44: [[el:Κρεμαστο&... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with...
35: ...erest include both the historic Church of the Candelaria and the modern-style cathedral, the Municipal... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ... [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to 5.1 percent [[...
5: ...is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (...
7: ==Iron and steel== - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...#1048;вановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] - [[October 28]],[[174...
7: ...nna was the daughter of [[Ivan V of Russia]], as well as the niece of [[Peter the Great]]. The latter...
10: ...nconvenience to her, and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity wit...
17: ...mpany of her foolish and ignorant maids. Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arranged the...
19: ... other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhar... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...#1077;ксеевна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 1...
7: ...ldhood except for Anna and [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta]].
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
14: *Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich ([[1717]]-[[1717]])
17: ...Sarskoje Selo estate, later renamed [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...#1077;ксеевна'': ''Yekaterína II Alekséyevna'', [[...
5: ...the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[Ju...
9: ...ly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1...
13: ...nomically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education f...
16: [[Image:Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|25... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: [[Image:elizabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the ...
3: ...]], particularly in [[Peterhof]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. The [[Winter Palace]] and the [[Smolny]] Cath...
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Grea...
9: ...uency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and v...
11: ...y remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistr... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...m [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effectively exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a d...
7: ...ized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
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 in...
15: ...overnment policy or operations and so was effectively [[exile]]d. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...#1085;дреевна Горенко...
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with sev...
11: ...ies considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925...
19: ... Stalinism: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1062;вѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]],...
8: ...a's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...ly full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasiona...
12: ...anges in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German language...
14: ...irst collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attentio... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...Сави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Mos... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...решко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[S...
5: ... of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina Solov'yova]...
7: ...]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further fe...
11: ...1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorce... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1074;алевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[Februa...
3: ...iukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He managed to conv...
5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was...
7: ...ing solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormou...
13: ...red her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for math... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...s a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ...er studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternat...
7: ...reja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomo...
9: ...orium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual ma...
15: * "I am a religious person...and by 'religion' I mean re-ligio, the re-tying of a bond...r... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...#1051;атынина'''; born [[December 27]], [[1934]] in [[Kherson]...
7: ...discontinued team event with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and tw... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...лала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Russia]]n ...
20: ... to be made of a leather [[shoe]] or [[boot]] [[heel]].
24: ...he balalaika are not precisely known, but most likely it was imported into Russia by the [[Mongol]]s f...
32: ...arranged many traditional Russian folk songs and melodies for the orchestra and also composed many tun...
36: ... instrument with a melon-shaped body, which he developed in prima, alto, tenor, and bass sizes; - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ly the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi). Population i...
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9: ...#1050;азахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
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61: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...1062;рна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abbreviated as "S...
3: ... independence via a [[referendum]], which can be held in 2006 at the earliest.
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5: ...1062;рна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i Crna Gor...
8: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ... former President [[Askar Akayev]], but unfortunately moved towards [[autocracy]] and [[authoritariani...
52: ...12th century]], [[Islam]] became the predominant religion in the region. Most Kyrgyz are [[Sunni Musli...
54: ...stan. The ruthless suppression of the [[1916]] rebellion in Central Asia, triggered by the Russian imp...
58: ...language was introduced. The [[Kyrgyz language]] belongs to the Southern Turkic group of languages. In...
64: ...sident of the [[Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences]], was elected to the presidency in October 1990. The follo...
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