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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ... Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as t...
5: ... completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ...hing similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to the required height.
13: ...d not hang but rather grew on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II...
15: ...he flat, sun-baked terrain of [[Mesopotamia]] depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by... - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: [[Image:EmpZoe.jpg|thumb|Empress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophi...
3: ...gning Empress from [[April 19]] to [[June 11]], [[1042]].
5: Zoe was one of the few Byzantine empresses born into the purple (that is, as the legitimate ...
9: ...ell upon [[Constantine IX]] Monomachus (reigned [[1042]]-[[1055]]) who outlived her by four years. Zoe d... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
2: ...056]]) ruled as [[Byzantine emperor|Byzantine Empress]] from [[January 11]], [[1055]] to [[August 31]]...
4: ...ere character, she refused the hand of the heir-presumptive, [[Romanus III|Romanus]], who was married ...
6: ... new husband, [[Constantine IX]], on [[June 11]], 1042.
8: ...flicts for the throne between various noble families that lasted from [[1056]] till [[1081]]. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
1: ...age:Tereshkova.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Valentina Tereshkova]]
3: ...#1077;нти́на Влади́ми&...
5: ...hanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...a]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...he [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
3: ... managed to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particu...
5: ...stronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another A...
7: ...tion]]s (the [[Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]...
11: ...ours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959...
5: ...s in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[music...
7: ...roup with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
11: ... on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
15: ...he legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recom... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...sion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. [[August 9]], [[1945]]]]
2: ... every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in [[World War I]] were involve...
4: ...ino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue th...
6: ...ctory]] Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [...
8: ... of World War II casualties by country|died as a result of the war]], including acts of genocide such ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earliest known traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock sh...
8: ...om [[Central Asia]] followed, with the successive establishment in northern India of the [[Indo-Greek]...
11: ...|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...indigenous kingdoms remained in or rose to power, especially in the relatively sheltered south, where ...
17: ... [[Sanchi|Sanchi stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...each year to celebrate the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixio...
4: ... [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of ...
6: ... often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any l...
11: |+style="padding-right: 1.5em;"align=center|'''Dates for Easter Sunday, 2000-2020'''
13: ! '''Year''' !! '''[[Western Christianity|Western]]''' !! '''[[Eastern Christianity|Eastern]]''... - Strontium (11493 bytes)
9: ...n="center" | [[image:Sr-TableImage.png|Click for description]]<br><div align="right"><small>[[Periodic...
17: | [[periodic table series|Series]]
23: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
29: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | '''Atomic properties'''
55: ...="center" bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | '''Physical properties''' - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earliest known traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock sh...
8: ...om [[Central Asia]] followed, with the successive establishment in northern India of the [[Indo-Greek]...
11: ...|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...indigenous kingdoms remained in or rose to power, especially in the relatively sheltered south, where ...
17: ... [[Sanchi|Sanchi stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
1: ...ritory, usually giving autonomy to ethnic minorities or isolated areas.
5: ! Sovereign states
11: | [[Buenos Aires]]
67: ...ransnistria]] (Sta Nistrului – Pridnestrovje/Придне&...
71: | [[Azores]] (A篲es) - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ...mbering system. Of course, the Byzantines themselves continued to think of their empire as "Roman" for...
14: ...328-378, ruled [[364]] - [[378]]) - brother of [[Western Roman Emperor]] [[Valentinian I]]
48: *[[Justinian II]] Rhinotmetus (restored, second rule [[705]] - [[711]])
49: *[[Philippicus]] Bardanes (ruled [[711]] - [[713]]) – soldier; usurpe...
57: *[[Constantine V]] Copronymus (restored, second rule [[743]] - [[775]]) - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...d everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
3: ...shown here conducting the [[Columbia Symphony Orchestra]] through ''[[Petrushka]]''.]]
5: ...famously claimed that music was incapable of "expressing anything but itself". Craft also transcribed...
7: ...century]] music, both in the [[Western countries|West]] and in his native land. He was named by [[Time...
12: ...intemps''. As he himself said, with these premieres his intention was "<nowiki>[</nowiki>to send<nowi... - Wind (17871 bytes)
2: ...fferential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet ([[Coriolis effec...
4: ...o air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the [[Coriolis effect]...
6: ... scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and m...
8: ...ape landforms, via a variety of [[eolian]] processes.
16: ...|Trade Winds]], the Westerlies, the Polar Easterlies, and the jet streams. - Green alga (4059 bytes)
13: ...es of higher plants, full differentiation of tissues occurs.
15: ...sted green algae, in the latter case retaining a vestigial nucleus (nucleomorph).
18: ... live on their own, while the fungal partner species are often found living in nature without the alga...
20: ...cell by a smaller motile one (oogamy). However, these traits show some variation, most notably among t...
26: * [[Chlorokybales]]
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