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- Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
9: ...d upon it. Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along with his brother-in-law [[Rob...
20: ... at her urging that he returned to the east to fulfill his vow of seeing [[Jerusalem]]. She was again ...
22: ...la quarrelled with her eldest son Guillaume, "''deficient in intelligence as well as degenerate''", an... - 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... - 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...
47: ...de (Чет и нечет)'' for seven percussionists, inclu...
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...e year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to dis...
10: ... [[China]], the [[polymath]] [[Shen Kua]] (1031 - 1095) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land ...
12: ...ssils was not overturned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] a...
14: Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote the first systematic treatise about [[mining]] and [[sme...
16: ...ogic map|geological maps]]; Guettard recorded the first observation of the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origin... - 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 ... - 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... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...estigating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces th...
4: ...al that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosoph...
6: ...e, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an external ...
11: ...owledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-fr...
13: ...; and [[Paul Feyerabend]], who argued that scientific knowledge is not cumulative or progressive, and ... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
9: ...e [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[...
11: ...ifest in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12t...
20: The trigger for the First Crusade was Emperor [[Alexius I]]'s appeal to ...
23: ..., with its sense that the highest good was to die fighting for the cause of the right deity, in a Chri... - 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... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
8: ...e are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and h...
10: ...counting board used in elementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do...
24: ...nd seven shorter grooves, the former having up to five beads in each and the latter one.
26: ...he shorter grooves denote fives—five units, five tens, ''etc.'', essentially in a [[bi-quinary c...
35: The Japanese eliminated (first) one bead from the upper deck and (later) anot... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ... Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquering various tribes on their way ...
5: ...[[1118]], the third son [[Ahmed Sanjar]], unsatisfied by his portion of the inheritance, took over th...
7: ...of [[Khwarezmid Empire|Khwarezm]], and the Seljuk finally collapsed. Of the former Great Seljuk Empire...
50: ...d-Dawla [[Tutush I]] ''(second time)'' [[1094]]-[[1095]]
51: * Fakhr al-Mulk [[Radwan]] [[1095]]-[[1113]] - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: .... The underlying support maintains the rails at a fixed distance ([[Rail gauge|gauge]]) apart. Usually...
8: ...t is one of the most [[energy efficiency|energy efficient]] means of mechanised land transport known. ...
9: ...ute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[...
11: ...est modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked rail line can...
15: ...nd creative marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a result. - Europium (8579 bytes)
44: | [[Electron configuration]]
77: | 144 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1095 K
87: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
157: Europium was first found by [[Paul ɭile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] i...
162: ...]] and [[monazite]]. Europium has also been identified in the spectra of the sun and certain stars. - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: The '''First Crusade''' was launched in [[1095]] by [[Pope Urban II]] to regain control of the [...
5: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
7: ...isa]], [[Genoa]] and [[Aragon]] were all actively fighting Islamic strongholds in [[Majorca]] and [[Sa...
9: ...tention on the east. It was [[Pope Urban II]] who first disseminated to the general public the idea of...
12: ...in Syria by his brother [[Tutush I]], who died in 1095. Tutush's sons [[Radwan]] and [[Duqaq]] inherited... - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
9: ...help people with prayers instead of idolizing the figure in the paiting. The most comprehensive collec...
14: ...ian [[avant garde]] is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modernist art th...
22: ...Aristotle Fioravanti]]. European architecture was firmly established in Russian under Czar Catherine. ...
48: ...ian film schools would take copies of [[D. W. Griffith]]'s [[Intolerance]] and re-cut it as an exercis...
50: ...m for "Russian Cinema". Although Russian language films predominated, several republics developed live... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
37: | [[Finland]]
91: ...1083;ьм Тангч)
93: ...evo-Čerkeccija/Карача́ево-Че...
115: ...sh; Nox穹綯Нохчичьо) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [...
5: ...om the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation ...
9: ...next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad v...
11: ...tion due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people...
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference... - Chemical equilibrium (5726 bytes)
22: ...; however, analysing it using enthropy is more difficult - whereas energy is roughly constant against ...
30: ...e substances [[activity coefficients|activity coefficients]], which are usually assumed to be equal to...
41: [[bg:Химично равно... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...1099;}} and ''[[The Firebird|L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird)]]'' {{lang|ru|Жар-П...
12: ...hka's'' emphasis on [[polyphony|bitonality]], and finally to the savage [[polyphony|polyphonic]] disso...
19: ...t double-life, spending some of his time with his first family and the rest with Vera. Katerina soon l...
21: ...rom ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specific occasions and paid for generously.
25: ...th in [[1971]], unsuccessfully writing music for films. Stravinsky had adapted to life in [[France]],... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
52: ... the outdoor museum of [[Neoclassicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] ...
62: ...med for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, now hous...
70: ...chitect, [[Auguste de Montferrand]]. Another magnificent church in the [[Empire style]] is the [[Kazan...
78: ... Our Lady of Vladimir (1761–1783). The Transfiguration (1827–29) and the Trinity Cathedral...
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