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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: [[bg:Висящи градини н...
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... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1083;а́на Евге́ньевн&... - 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... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
3: :''See also the [[Luxor Hotel]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]],...
7: ...Egypt|Thebes]], and has a population of approximately 150,000.
11: ... of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of [[Hatshepsut]], but who says that the Manki...
13: ...: ancient Egyptian pictures of houses, gardens, fields, palaces and feasts offer a furtive glimpse of ...
18: ...oved from Thebes to [[Byblos]], around [[1070s BC|1075 BCE]], and found strange that Zakar Baal, King of... - California (63989 bytes)
11: ...estCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
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84: ...ake note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body. - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ...be done. During the [[20th century]], with the development of adequate propulsion technologies, strong...
6: ...rport]] in Northern Virginia displays an unparalleled array of aerospace technology in one place: [[S...
13: ...ieving orbit is a prerequisite for going anywhere else, such as to the [[Moon]] or [[Mars (planet)|Mar...
15: ...[[2004]], [[SpaceShipOne]] became the first privately-funded manned [[spacecraft]].
35: ...[European Launcher Development Organisation]], or ELDO. - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ...[Alexius I]] in opposing [[Muslim]] attacks thus fell on ready ears.
9: ...Spanish [[knights]] and some [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic...
11: ...g popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12th century.
13: ...the ensuing decades and centuries, they were themselves faced with invasions by Muslims and other host...
15: ...se rumors then played an important role in the development of the crusades later in the century. - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
2: The '''Valley of the Kings''', or '''Wadi el-Muluk''' (وادي ا...
6: ...lley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials in the Valley o...
20: ... into two large caches. One, the so-called [[Deir el-Bahri]] cache, contained no less than forty royal...
23: ...he first tomb to be discovered that was still largely intact.
28: == Miscellanea == - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...y|11th]] to [[14th century|14th centuries]]. The Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], figh...
3: ...nistan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Azerbaijan]]. The Seljuk Turks and their descendants, the [[Ottoman Emp...
5: ...al in Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[115...
7: ...he Seljuk finally collapsed. Of the former Great Seljuk Empire, only the [[Sultanate of Rüm]] in ...
9: ===Rulers of Great Seljuk [[1037]]-[[1157]]=== - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ... [[Atlantic Ocean]], flying from [[Roosevelt Airfield]] ([[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [...
13: ... offer since 1919. A [[ticker-tape parade]] was held for him down 5th Avenue in [[New York City]] on ...
15: ... are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
18: ...s to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight...
26: ...e. The boy was found dead on [[May 12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindberg... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...[England]] from [[1066]] to 1087. Known alternatively as '''William of Normandy''', '''William the Con...
12: ...ueen [[Emma of Normandy|Emma]], wife of King [[Ethelred the Unready]] and later of King [[Canute the G...
14: ...y secured control of Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at [[Caen]] in the [[Battle of Val-...
16: ...e produced four sons and six daughters (see list below).
23: ...ld made the promise under duress and so may have felt free to break it. - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
1: ...s Khan''' was a [[Mongol]] [[Khan]] (Emperor) as well as a brilliant and sometimes brutal military lea...
5: ...h often outnumbered, he used superior military intelligence and the mobility of his mounted warriors t...
7: ...ign is not, and likely will not ever be, conclusively known.
11: ... unlikely that the Tartar conquerer was actually related. His family ruled the [[Mongol]]s until the [...
15: ...#1075;ин''). His mother was named [[Hoelun]] and was of the Olkunut tribe. Tem?as named af... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...fixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believe happened at about this time of year around AD...
4: ...chronology in the [[Synoptic Gospels]]. The [[Gospel of John]] has a different chronology which has Ch...
6: ... April, [[Eostremonat]] and Ostaramanoth respectively. According to the 8th century [[Christian]] [[mo...
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59: Easter and the holidays that are related to it are ''[[moveable feast]]s'', in that th... - Taiga (2576 bytes)
1: ...Russian language|Russian]] тайга́) is a [[biome]] characterized by it...
9: ...g]], [[Caribou]] and several members of the [[weasel]] family such as [[Wolverine]] and [[Pine Marten]...
11: ...nifers from growing there. This is known as [[allelopathy]]. This acidic soil also comes when evergre... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
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77: ...я – Adyge/Адыгэ)
79: ...#1083;тайдынг)
85: | [[Dagestan]] (Dagestan/Дагестан)
87: ...sp;– Gialgiaj Mochk/Гiалгiай Мохк) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ...pists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He... - Capricornus (6733 bytes)
2: ...odern boundaries it is bordered by [[Aquila (constellation)|Aquila]], [[Sagittarius]], [[Microscopium]...
5: ...ose vertices are Giedi (α), Deneb Algedi (δ), and ω Capricorni.
8: ...ablets dating back three thousand years. The constellation may owe its antiquity to the fact that at t...
12: ...cal period of Greek history, this name gradually fell out of use.
14: ...gical period called Capricorn begins at approximately the same time as the solstice. - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: {{lang|ru|Игорь Фёдо...
5: ...usic was incapable of "expressing anything but itself". Craft also transcribed several interviews wit...
10: ...in St. Petersburg and dominated by his father and elder brother, Stravinsky's early childhood was a mi...
12: ...>[</nowiki>to send<nowiki>]</nowiki> them all to hell". (He succeeded: the 1913 première of ''...
14: ...also collaborated with [[Pablo Picasso]] (''Pulcinella'', 1920), [[Jean Cocteau]] (''Oedipus Rex'', 19... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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36: ...a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf...
42: ...1085;ый округ).
48: ...tal and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite...
50: ...the "[[white night]]s." The white nights are closely linked to another attraction — the nine dr...
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