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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...88;ина I Алексеевна) ([[A...
17: ...hikov, and the Supreme Privy Council. She was the first royal owner of the Sarskoje Selo estate, later... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
25: ...s, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some difficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a pro... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [...
7: ...ditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and educating women about the ne...
13: ...et Ambassador to [[Norway]], becoming the world's first female Ambassador. She later served as Ambass...
15: Alexandra Kollontai is an unusual figure in the history of the [[Soviet Union]], as sh...
17: Kollontai was the subject of the 1994 TV film, ''A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kol... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...nd memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[S... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1072; Сави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], i...
3: ...y 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...nion|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard ...
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...Seagull]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for fur... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1086;валевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[...
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğä´ qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
45: ...1103; трещотка)'' for six percussionists (1991)
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...алала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Rus...
18: ...sic)|chord]]s. The [[hand#The four fingers|index finger]] is used to sound notes on the prima, while ...
30: ...Trinity. This idea, while whimsical, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the ... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
9: ...#1077;спублика Казахс...
25: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
28: | '''[[Official script]]'''
70: ...that is now Kazakhstan since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth ce...
76: ...great resentment against colonial rule during the final years of tsarist Russia, with the most serious... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: '''Kyrgyzstan''' officially the '''Kyrgyz Republic''', and sometimes kn...
13: official_languages = [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]],...
52: ...n. Most Kyrgyz are [[Sunni Muslim]]s of the [[Hanafi]] school.
60: ...turny Kirghizstan'', by the Union of Writers. Unofficial political groups were forbidden, but several ...
64: ...cratic Movement]] (KDM) had developed into a significant political force with support in parliament. I... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
51: ...c of Tajikistan''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly kn...
62: ...the [[Tajikistan Civil War]]. In [[1997]] a cease-fire was reached between Rahmonov and opposition par...
67: ...us factions, allegedly backed by Russia and Iran, fighting one another. All but 25,000 of the more tha...
69: Tajikistan is officially a republic, and holds elections for the [[L... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: '''Ukraine''' ({{lang-ua|Україна}}, ''Ukraina'...
6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina''...
22: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Ukrainian language|Ukraini...
53: ...age with Ukraine's independence, as there is no definite article (''the'') in either language.
55: ... [[Krajna]], [[Krajina]] - in Polish, or Окраина (Okraina, "Ou... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...both the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and us...
3: ...eld.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
9: ...co|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) whic...
13: ...ople in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...pects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space race]] between ...
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...hter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions ...
11: ...ace. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ... animal in orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vos... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI definition. Those who have achieved this are said to h...
7: ...ut" is an anglicization of the [[Russia]]n word космонав...
9: ...d a Russian launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
13: ...efers to people who has actually been in space. Official English text issued by the Chinese government...
18: ...tober 15]] [[2003]] [[Yang Liwei]] became China's first astronaut on the [[Shenzhou 5]] spacecraft. - Politics (7193 bytes)
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
14: ...ion were the institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (inclu...
23: ...democracy]], having various officers selected for fixed terms by popular [[election]]. Following the ...
34: ...timacy for authority known as ([[tripartite classification of authority]]). He proposed three reasons ...
40: ...ten short lived, seldom outliving the charismatic figure that leads them. Examples include [[Hitler]]... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...ld War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South East Asia]], and it continued in China...
20: ...ading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
22: ... States]], from December 1941. [[China]] had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions...
24: ...r in their neighborhood. Sovereignty was often difficult to maintain as many countries that did not di... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
19: ... wrestling matches and foot races. More than one field researcher has reported witnessing meerkats in...
30: ...n noted to carry an element of meaning, with specific calls alerting to the approach of snakes, birds ...
32: ...he character [[Timon (Lion King)|Timon]] from the film ''[[The Lion King]]''.
41: [[bg:Сурикат]] - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...осси́йская Федер...
13: ...ilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[M...
15: ...in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
19: ...d the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to coloni...
23: ... revive, and organized its own war of reconquest, finally subjugating its enemies and annexing their t...
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