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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 град...
44: [[el:Κρεμαστο&... - 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]]. - 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... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...80;на I Алексеевна) ([[April 15...
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: ...0;на II Алексеевна'': ''Yekateri...
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. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&...
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: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно...
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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9: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
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51: ...n''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the ''T...
60: ...develop the [[Tajik SSR]], and it remained relatively behind other Soviet Republics in living conditio... - 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: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
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... - World War II (58065 bytes)
8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualt...
10: ...rgely aligned as [[NATO]], and Eastern Europe largely as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which were fun...
16: ...f the Second World War are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocs: the '''[[Axis powe...
20: ... by it in June 1941, the Soviet Union was effectively allied with [[Nazi Germany]] through the [[Molot...
22: ...ounted among the Allies, though many would ultimately be conquered and occupied by Axis forces. - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...ely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and elsewhere.
10: ...s, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (mathema...
26: ...a [[bi-quinary coded decimal]] system, obviously related to the [[Roman numerals]]. The short grooves...
35: ...n each column of the Chinese abacus, the Japanese eliminated the use of Quichu (Chinese division table...
39: Soroban is taught in elementary schools as a part of lessons in mathemati... - 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... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
4: ...ys of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant problem (with estimated wo...
8: ... cooking meat (called a ''[[barbecue|barbacoa]]'' elsewhere). These were used by French hunters calle...
10: ... were not pirates, but adventurers involving themselves in [[Latin American revolution]]s and [[coup d...
24: ...m a government or king to capture merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation. The famous [[Barbary p...
28: ... [[Indian ocean]]s, but since they used naval vessels, these commerce raiders were not even privateers... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... or '''Russia''' (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'...
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...
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