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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
15: ...cided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
19: ...ng upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size...
21: ...esented an amazing spectacle: A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
35: ** [[The Hanging Garden]] ([[Film]])
43: ...1085;а Вавилон]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ...
63: ... onto the hillsides where sturdy buildings are difficult to build, and accidents, mainly from heavy ra... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...1085;на Ивановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] -...
10: ...he nobles for her unexpected fortune and remain a figurehead at best, and malleable at worst. In the h...
17: ...in the company of her foolish and ignorant maids. Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arr...
19: ...nds of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...tion of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]. ...
19: ... existing government. The idea seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La ...
25: ...this may be added that she was ever ready to sacrifice the prejudices of the woman to the duty of the ...
29: ...Sweden ceded to Russia all the southern part of [[Finland]] east of the river Kymmene, which thus beca...
39: ...lness of the empress, which began with a fainting-fit at [[Tsarskoe Selo]] (September 19, 1757), nor t... - 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... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1080;на Ивановна Цвѣт...
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se... - 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: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...1083;ьевна Ковалевск...
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 ijğ䴠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: ...1085;ая трещотка)'' for six percussionists (...
55: ...1087;еред пробуждени... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1089;а Семёновна Латы...
5: Born '''Larissa Diriy''', she first practiced [[ballet]], but turned to gymnastics...
9: ...medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault compe...
11: ...of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze.
13: ...a retired after the [[1966]] World Championships, finishing second with the Soviet team, and became a ... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
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...
80: ...akh Soviet Socialist Republic]] (SSR) contributed five national divisions to the Soviet Union's World ... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...72; и Црна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abb...
3: ...es and currencies. The country does not have a unified capital anymore, dividing its common institutio...
5: ...72; и Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srb...
22: | '''[[Official language]]'''
56: ...c]] and [[Latin alphabet]]). More languages are official at various local levels.<br/> - 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: ...#1086;ҷикистон), formerly known as the ''Tajik Soviet So...
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... - 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: ...he [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kosmonavt)'', whi...
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...
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