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- 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated ...
13: ... with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United State...
21: .... After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, they were released due t...
32: ...y may even have shared an apartment (see also the film [[Reds]]).
38: ...n]] to support the [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
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...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...was a [[Polish]] chemist and pioneer in the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laurea...
5: ...ysics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
9: ...02]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native c...
11: ...d by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: ...on process, instead leaving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered. - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
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)
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 ... - 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]]'''
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...
95: ...y mountains of the [[Pamir]] range, and more than fifty percent of the country is 3,000 meters (approx... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
46: ...ts capital in [[Constantinople]]. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the centuries tha...
51: ...played a crucial role in this. Henceforth, it was fixed policy in the West to refer to the emperor in ...
57: "[[Byzantium]] may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Chr...
61: Byzantines identified themselves as Ρωμαί	...
63: The official dissolution of the Byzantine state in the [[1... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...m the sky was executed, and some of the century's first large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] to...
6: ...orld Order (political)|world order]], marking the final demise of [[political absolutism|absolutist]] ...
8: ...me scholars, who regard World War I as merely the first phase of a three-decade long war spanning the ...
10: ...Western Front]]. Over 9 million died on the battlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front d...
19: ...s ever been reached as for the exact cause of the First World War. - Chin (993 bytes)
- Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...e (from the [[Latin]] word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit...
11: ... [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[History of Bulgaria|first and second Bulgarian empires]] (see [[List of ...
21: ...or several long-lasting achievements that would define the Empire:
22: *Creation of a hereditary office, which we refer to as [[Emperor]] of Rome.
23: ...le. Duration of Roman military service marked the final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] fr... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ...to emerge victoriously as Caesar Augustus and the first [[Roman Emperor]].
5: ...Rome at the time. He also reorganized the tax and financial systems of Rome, as well as prompting an a...
14: ... Octavian’s time in Hispania was likely the first time the two were able to develop a close rela...
18: ...tavian to serve as his second-in-command in the office of [[master of the horse]] beginning in the yea...
23: ...r’s estate that was willed to him. Octavian first crossed the [[Adriatic Sea]] and landed in [[B... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
8: ... - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Forth]].
10: ...] is struck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Mich...
11: ...the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and reaching the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their...
12: *[[1839]] - First recorded use of "[[Okay|OK]]" as an abbreviati...
13: ...ffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|D... - Russia (28007 bytes)
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...
27: ...(title)|Caesar]]'', also written Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding are... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
8: *[[1832]] - [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]]...
11: ...] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be readmitted to the [[Unite...
13: *[[1910]] - [[James MacGillivray]] publishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit Ne...
16: ... other countries that fought in the [[World War I|First World War]].
18: ...t of [[foreign policy]], goes into effect (it was first signed in [[Paris]] on [[August 27]], [[1928]]... - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
2: ...tatives serve for two-year terms. The presiding officer of the House is known as the [[Speaker of the ...
9: ...], [[1789]] when it achieved a [[quorum]] for the first time.
11: During the first half of the nineteenth century, the House was ...
15: ...10]]" due to the efforts of Democrats and dissatisfied Republicans who opposed Cannon's arguably heavy...
21: ... the size of the House is fixed at 435 seats. The figure was temporarily increased to 437 in [[1959]] ... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
3: ...re not independent states but nevertheless have official anthems, are ''italicized''.
117: ...Republic of]]||[[The March of the Volunteers]] (official)
184: |[[Ethiopia]]||[[Whedefit Gesgeshi Woude Henate Ethiopia]] (March Forward,...
194: |[[Fiji]]||[[God Bless Fiji]]
196: |[[Finland]]||[[Maamme|Maamme/V岴 land]] (Our Land) - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
16: ===Final phase and the peace===
25: ...sing methods. The Crimean War also introduced the first tactical use of [[railway]]s.
30: * Some action also took place on the Russian Pacific coast, [[Asia Minor]], the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]]...
42: ...]] started to have a significant effect, with the first 'live' war reporting to ''[[The Times]]'' by [...
43: ...ring the Crimean War for her contributions in the field of nursing during the war. - Borzoi (4195 bytes)
23: !Classification
45: ...m/search?q=cache:0sxBCtiGa5YJ:www.fci.be/uploaded_files/193gb2001.doc+site:www.fci.be+%22193++/++02.+0...
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