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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: [[bg:Висящи гради... - 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]]. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...ави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Ru...
3: ...y 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1072;левская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]]...
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: ...#1088;евянная трещотк...
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур... - 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... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
301: *[[Wayne la Vardesti]] (1103 - 2005) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...ssian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), i...
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... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...Russia's first constitutional period, which was defined by the much-amended constitution adopted by th...
8: ...were drawn to incorporate the territory of a specific nationality. The constitution endowed the new re...
10: ...cies of Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] (in office 1985-91) also encouraged nationalities in the u...
12: ...cted as president in June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of t...
16: ... believed would wreck the Soviet Union. Yeltsin defiantly opposed the coup plotters and called for Gor... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
4: ...ry of the Latter Day Saint movement]]). They were finally forced to abandon Nauvoo in [[1846]].
6: ...about 13,000 Mormon citizens of Nauvoo set out to find a new home in the West.<ref>Hartley.</ref>
12: ...o the Rocky Mountains, evaluate trail conditions, find sources of water, and select a central gatherin...
17: ... chosen members of the Vanguard Company gathered, final supplies were packed, and the group was organi...
25: ...es and turnips were planted. On July 24th, Young first saw the valley from a “sick” wagon driven ... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...fer to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends arou...
4: ...ed by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover [[seder...
6: ...] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, althou...
59: ...oveable feast]]s'', in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the [[Gregorian calendar | Gregorian]]...
61: ...]] during the reign of [[Charlemagne]], when they finally adopted the Alexandrian method. Since wester... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
22: ...although there is a minority belief in the scientific community that evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA...
27: The common guinea pig was first [[domestication |domesticated ]] c. [[2000 BC]...
31: ... Pig; Морская свинка), the...
33: The [[binomial nomenclature|scientific name]] of a common species is ''Cavia porcellus,...
35: ...rad Gesner]] more than a hundred years before the first [[Guinea coin|guinea]] was struck. - Guinea Pigs (18488 bytes)
22: ...although there is a minority belief in the scientific community that evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA...
27: The common guinea pig was first [[domestication |domesticated ]] c. [[2000 BC]...
31: ... Pig; Морская свинка), the...
33: The [[binomial nomenclature|scientific name]] of a common species is ''Cavia porcellus,...
35: ...rad Gesner]] more than a hundred years before the first [[Guinea coin|guinea]] was struck. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...;م in [[Persian language|Persian]]) was the first [[civilization]] based in [[Iran]], the [[Ilam...
10: The high country of Elam was increasingly identified by its low-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and g...
19: ... with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a...
55: ...apidly. Nebuchadrezzar I of Babylon (c. 1124 - c. 1103 BCE) attacked Elam and was barely beaten off. A s...
72: ...run and little beyond. Among the nations that benefitted from the decline of the Assyrians were the [[... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
37: | [[Finland]]
43: ...azija/Абхазия)
77: ...a]] (Adygeja/Адыгея – Adyge/Адыг&...
83: ...1103; – Burjaad/Буряад)
87: ...#1085;гушетия – Gialgiaj Mochk/Гiаl... - 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... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
40: ...#1089;еверная столица...
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... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: ...onarchies is that the Head of State holds their office for life, unlike in a [[republic]], where a [[p...
9: ... pleasure of the deity and was overthrown or sacrificed when it became apparent that supernatural sanc...
11: ...ocratic countries which retain monarchy have by definition limited the monarch's power, with most havi...
14: ...ersions tend to survive only in societies with sufficient technology to allow the concentration and or...
16: ...ece]]. [[Spain]] under [[Francisco Franco]] was officially a monarchy even though there was no monarch... - Muscle (12774 bytes)
6: There are three general types of muscle. The first two are "striated", they contain [[sarcomere]]...
13: ...oth muscles and the striated muscles include: the fibers of the smooth muscles are not arranged regula...
17: ... requires more than 25% of your strength. Type II fibers are further divided into two sub-categories :
18: ...ntary people have a higher proportion of type IIx fibers.
19: ...ut can sustain an effort longer than the type IIx fibers can (for up to 3 minutes in highly trained at... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
15: | [[1103 Sequoia]] || [[November 9]], [[1928]]
19: | [[5656 Oldfield]] || [[October 8]], [[1920]]
28: ...a galaxy]] for the first time, which led him to define distinct "[[stellar population|populations]]" f...
30: ... of the supernova of the year [[1054]], and identified the optical counterparts of various [[radio ast...
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