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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: ...1042;исящи градини на... - 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]]. - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...e|Russian]]: Екатерина I Але
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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... - 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: ...'' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Марина Иван...
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 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: ...1074;янная трещотка)'' for...
53: ...Jetzt immer Schnee (Теперь всегда... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семё...
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: ...080; Црна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abbreviate...
3: ...es and currencies. The country does not have a unified capital anymore, dividing its common institutio...
5: ...080; Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i C...
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... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: '''Ukraine''' ({{lang-ua|Україна}}, ''Ukraina'' {{IPA...
6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina'''</big>...
22: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Ukrainian language|Ukraini...
53: ...age with Ukraine's independence, as there is no definite article (''the'') in either language.
55: ...na]], [[Krajina]] - in Polish, or Окраина (Okraina, "Outskirts... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
73: *[[Pope Urban II|Urban II, Pope]], (1088-1099) - Influenza (10335 bytes)
14: ...y one H subtype and one N subtype have been identified for influenza B virus. At present, the most com...
16: ...pecifying virus type, geographical location where first isolated, year of isolation, sequential number...
18: ... or [[pandemic]]s. There is no exact scientific definition of a superflu.
57: ...ly support their use where this would make a significant difference, e.g. in the elderly.
92: [[ru:Грипп]] - 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]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
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