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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...
44: [[el:Κρεμαστο&...
57: ...1080; Семираміди в Ваk... - 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]]. - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
11: ...[October 16]], [[690]], and she<br>proclaimed herself emperor on [[October 19]], demoting her<br>young...
16: ...033;州) prefecture, now the [[prefecture-level city]] of [[Guangyuan]] (广元市...
20: ...hat's more a nun if traditional history is to be believed, was found utterly shocking by Confucian mor...
22: ...our concubines of the first rank and immediately below the empress consort. Then eventually, in Novemb...
24: ...peror'', and this again utterly shocked Confucian elites. - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
5: '''Adela of Blois''' (c. [[1067]] - [[March 8]], [[1137]]...
7: Her birthdate is generally believed to have been between [[1060]] and [[1064]]; ...
9: ... the cross until Adela insisted upon it. Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along...
11: Adela and Stephen's children were:
20: Adela was regent for her husband during his extended a... - 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: ...' (''Анна Ахматова, Аl...
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: ...#1072; Влади́мировна Т...
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... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1072;риса Семёновна Л...
7: ...discontinued team event with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and tw... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
3: ...d.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...h fiber is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs....
9: ...her]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological e...
13: ...in [[1350]], stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful tree whic...
17: ...roved by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[1793]]. - 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. - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] ha...
7: ...on of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kosmonavt)...
9: ... begins, while in Russia, an individual is not labelled a cosmonaut until successful space flight. On...
11: European (outside of the [[UK]]) space travellers are called '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word...
13: ...inese]] for [[outer space|space]]. In Chinese itself, however, a single term ''yǔháng yu... - 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]]=== - Russia (28007 bytes)
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 ...
29: ...trodden serfs and suppression of the growing [[Intelligentsia]] were continuing problems however, and ... - 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... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ... members of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail...
6: ...mith's death]] in 1844, most members aligned themselves with [[Brigham Young]] and [[The Church of Jes...
10: ...ould settle in a location no one else wanted and felt the isolated [[Great Basin]] would provide the S...
12: ...azing rights, water access and campsites with travelers using the established [[Oregon Trail]] on the ...
14: ...o the Great Basin during the summer of 1846. He believed they could cross [[Iowa]] Territory and reac... - 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... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
9: ...ange comprises three parallel ranges, arranged by elevation and geological age.
10: ...'' and is also the oldest of the three. It has an elevation of more than 6000 m and contains a large n...
21: ...ralian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the [[Tibetan plateau]], which forces the plate...
23: ...r, and over the next 10 million years it will travel more than 180 [[km]] into Tibet. This leads to th...
32: ...an]] to the [[Arabian Sea]]. It is fed by the [[Jhelum]], the [[Chenab]], the [[Ravi River|Ravi]], the... - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ... [[Czarist]] and [[Soviet]] rules and under the relgious leadership of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]...
8: [[Image:Angelsatmamre-trinity-rublev-1410.jpg|thumb|200px|A pie...
9: ...gs in Russia are unique because they are made to help people with prayers instead of idolizing the fig...
13: ...mb|150px|An example of Russian avant garde art by El Lissitzky in 1919]]
14: ...turism]]. Notable artists from this era include [[El Lissitzky]], [[Kazimir Malevich]], [[Wassily Kand... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
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91: ...; Chal'm Tangč/Хальм Тангч)
95: | [[Republic of Karelia|Karelia]] (Karelija/Карели...
97: | [[Komi Republic|Komi]] (Komi/Коми)
99: | [[Mari El]] (Marij El/Марий Эл...
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