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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... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...led "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...3 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the co...
13: ...lorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans th...
15: ...and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neigh...
17: ...ntown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowada... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
22: ...d as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...vna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
3: ...hess of [[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] ...
10: ...sing her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
13: ==Policies of her reign== - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...459.jpg|thumb|right|230px|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ... of [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] and Empress of [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. Wit...
5: ...to minister Gluck of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to...
7: ... Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she converted to [[Orthodoxy]] an...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enl...
4: == Life before becoming empress ==
5: ...er, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine...
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ...s. A legislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this doc... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...s.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...[[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine ...
9: ...es with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordina... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... thus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[19...
7: ...on worked to improve the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and ...
11: ...s' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...#1085;дреевна Горенко...
3: ...ry, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinis...
5: ...Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separa...
9: ...]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...y Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1062;вѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]],...
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...woman in space some 19 years after [[Valentina Tereshkova]].
3: ...was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
1: ...age:Tereshkova.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Valentina Tereshkova]]
3: ...решко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[S...
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)
1:
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. - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...ast]]. She holds the record for most [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver m...
7: ...es Keleti]] of [[Hungary]] to become the most successful gymnast of the Olympics. Latynina beat Keleti...
9: ... a stunning margin of 9 points. Latynina also successfully defended her floor title, while winning sil...
11: ... third time in a row. A silver medal and two bronzes in the other apparatus events brought her total o...
13: ... of [[Russia]], and lives (as of [[2004]]) in her estate near the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|M... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...iangle|triangular]] body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs).
5: The modern balalaika is found in six sizes:
18: ...ma, while a [[plectrum]] is used on the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it i...
26: ...with the nature of the Central Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier bal...
28: ..., sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], the [[Russian Orthodox Ch... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...]], and the [[Central Asia|Central Asian]] countries [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Turkmenista...
3: ... sq km (16 per sq mi). Population in [[2005]] was estimated at 15,100,500 [http://www.stat.kz/en/info/...
9: ...9;ахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
34: | '''Largest city'''
37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]''' - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ... a loose [[confederation]]. It is located on the west-central [[Balkan Peninsula]].
3: ...ferendum]], which can be held in 2006 at the earliest.
5: ...1062;рна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i Crna Gor...
28: | '''[[President of Serbia and Montenegro|President]]'''<sup>3</sup>
32: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 105th]]<br/> 102,350 [[square... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...tion of 2005|revolution]] and President Akayev's resignation on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the politic...
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6: native_name = (Kyrgyzskaya respublika) |
13: official_languages = [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Russian lan...
17: ...r_titles = [[President of Kyrgyzstan|President]]<br> [[Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan|Prime M...
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