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- 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]]. - 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;на Ахматова, Аннk...
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: ...1086;вна Цвѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1...
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: ...' ({{lang-ru|Валенти́на Вла...
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 Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1092;ия Асгатовна Губ...
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... - 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]]''' - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
24: | '''[[List of Presidents of Tajikistan|President]]'''
31: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 92nd]]<br/> 143,100 [[square ...
34: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 95th]]<br/> 6,863,752<b...
45: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
51: ...#1058;оҷикистон), formerly known as the ''Tajik So... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...on in the [[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
4: ... the development of adequate propulsion technologies, stronger and lighter materials and other technol...
6: ... next to [[Redstone Arsenal]] displays many articles of space hardware, including a full-size replica ...
11: ...ve Earth's surface. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]]....
13: ...4]], [[1957]]. This spectacular success led to an escalation of the American space program, and to an ... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...I]] using a manned maneuvering unit. Picture courtesy NASA]]
3: ...[[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
7: ...ek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" and ''nautes,'' meaning "sailor".
9: ... becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
11: ...et Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States of America. - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Altho...
4: ...]''' is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. th...
9:
11: ...e the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...which require densely populated settlements - cities. - 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 ... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Herpestidae]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''S. suricatta'''''}}
15: ... family, it inhabits all parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern [[Africa]].
19: ... More than one field researcher has reported witnessing meerkats in some sort of singing ceremony the...
22: ... strong venom of the scorpions of the [[Kalahari Desert]]. - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...ith beads sliding on wires. It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written [[Arabic numer...
3: == Chinese abacus ==
5: The '''suanpan''' of the [[China|Chinese]] is similar to the Roman abacus in principle, t...
8: ... up or down towards the beam. The abacus can be reset to the starting position instantly by a quick j...
10: ...lementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[d...
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