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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: ...1042;исящи градини на...
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]]. - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...e|Russian]]: Екатерина I Але
...
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: ...ine II''' (''Екатерина II Але...
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: ...1077;евна Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[18...
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: ...'' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Марина Иван...
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... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1088;овна Терешко́ва}...
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: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семё...
7: ...discontinued team event with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and tw... - 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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72: ... and by the middle of the [[16th century]] had developed a common language, culture, and economy. In t... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...080; Црна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abbreviate...
3: ... independence via a [[referendum]], which can be held in 2006 at the earliest.
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5: ...080; Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i C...
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... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...Europe]] which borders [[Russia]] to the east, [[Belarus]] to the north, [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]] and ...
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6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina'''</big>...
46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.ua]]
53: ...tly because of its implication that Ukraine is merely a region rather than an independent state. There... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
11: *[[Paolo Uccello|Uccello, Paolo]], (1397-1475), Italian painter
26: ...harlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
49: ...Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ..., Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...eases commonly called "stomach '''flu'''" (and widely misunderstood as being instances of influenza), ...
2: [[Image:Avian_flu.jpg|thumb|200px|Negatively stained flu virions. These were the causative ag...
4: ...s of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in unfavourable [[astrology|astrological]] ''i...
12: The A type of influenza virus is the type most likely to cause [[epidemic|epidemics]] and [[pandemic|p...
21: ...), which lasted from [[1918]] to [[1919]] and is believed to have killed more people in total than [[W... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
12: ...icata suricatta | author = [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]] | date = [[1776]]}}
15: ...rp.400pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Meerkats at Los Angeles Zoo, California.]]The '''meerkat''' (from ''[[D...
19: ...some sort of singing ceremony they compared to yodeling.
22: ...l]]s, [[millipede]]s, [[centipede]]s and, more rarely, small birds), [[plant]]s and fungi (the desert ...
24: ... standing guard makes peeping sounds when all is well. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small>
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