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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: ...1089;ящи градини на Вk...
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... - 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]]. - 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: ...72;, Анна Андреевна Г...
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 - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...#1080;́на Влади́миров&...
5: ... of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina Solov'yova]...
11: ...1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorce... - 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... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
3: ... independence via a [[referendum]], which can be held in 2006 at the earliest.
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5: ...1074;на заједница<br/>Ср&#...
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26: | [[Belgrade]]<sup>2</sup> - 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. - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
1: ...est of San Clemente by [[Pope Gregory VII]] about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to [[Pope...
3: ... King [[Henry I of England]], by retaining to himself exclusive right to invest with the ring and croz...
5: ...aschal complaining ([[1115]]) that councils were held and bishops translated without his authorization...
9: Successor=[[Pope Gelasius II|Gelasius II]]|Dates=1099–1118}} - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
4: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
47: ...ng the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles an...
50: ...] in March 1916, and left for dead on the battlefield. Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He...
52: ...France. He was heavily influenced by that war, namely by the use of tanks, fast manoeuvres and lack of...
56: ...n rejected most of de Gaulle's theories, and the relationship between them became strained. French pol... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ... a pair of conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges have been placed. Intentional capac...
7: ...surface of the plates, at the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores an equal but op...
9: ... is shown for clarity; in a real capacitor, the dielectric is in direct contact with the plates.)]]
13: ...citance]] (''C'') is a measure of the amount of [[electric charge|charge]] (''Q'') stored on each plat...
18: ...mittivity]] of the [[dielectric]] (that is, non-[[electrical conduction|conducting]]) substance that s... - 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... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
18: ...]], the first [[rock and roll]] concert, in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
23: ...finally successful [[Civil Rights]] March from [[Selma]] to [[Montgomery]] [[Alabama]].
26: ...the fifteenth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for [[Ireland]] singing "All Kinds of Everything".
29: ...ansen]] begins his [[circumnavigation]] in a [[wheelchair]] in the name of [[spinal cord]] injury medi...
33: ...ing of ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reporter [[Daniel Pearl]]. - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...1081;ская Федера́ция}...
13: ...and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[...
17: ...ssians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the west.
19: ...ies that affected the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who att...
21: ...ule retarded the country's economic and social development. Asian autocratic influences degraded many ... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...lve the parliament and called for new legislative elections (''see'' [[Russian constitutional crisis o...
4: ...style democracy and authoritarianism being two widely considered alternatives. As the transition perio...
8: ...nty, although they were said to have voluntarily delegated most of their sovereign powers to the Sovie...
10: ...so brought constitutional reforms that led to the election of new republic legislatures with substanti...
12: ...torate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president in June 1991, handily defeating... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
15: ...imple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth]] (''satya''), and [[non-violence]] ...
18: ...ury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between membe...
20: ... did not stay there long, however, as his family felt he must become a [[barrister]] if he were to con...
22: ...aph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling of the verb in the UK and Indian varieties of... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...o parallel [[rail tracks|rails]], usually of [[steel]], generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (...
8: ...trucks. Fully loaded, the contact between each wheel and the rail is the space of about one U.S. ten c...
9: ...owing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[road transport]].
13: ...dia]], [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[China]], and elsewhere.
15: ...rder to save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and becom... - 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...
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