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- Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: ...Zoe.jpg|thumb|Empress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophia]]
3: ...r 15]], [[1028]] - [[1050]], and reigning Empress from [[April 19]] to [[June 11]], [[1042]].
7: ...ately remarried, even before his body was removed from the bath. Zoe's second husband was [[Michael IV...
9: ...[[Constantine IX]] Monomachus (reigned [[1042]]-[[1055]]) who outlived her by four years. Zoe died in [[... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
2: ...mperor|Byzantine Empress]] from [[January 11]], [[1055]] to [[August 31]], [[1056]]. She was the daught...
8: ...throne between various noble families that lasted from [[1056]] till [[1081]]. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1080;саве́т) Петро́вн&...
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: ...posed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quart...
35: *''Garten von freuden und traurigkeiten'' for flute, viola, harp a...
56: ...'And: The Feast is in Full Procession (И: Празднес...
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ww.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/d...
50: | From [[Soviet Union]], [[December 16]], [[1991]]
70: ...an since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth century AD]] through t...
72: ... the livestock-based economy. The Kazakhs emerged from a mixture of tribes living in the region in abo...
76: ...ed by a specially created Migration Department (Переселе... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ...ton in [[Mexico|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and ...
11: ...tton: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and...
13: ...n, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine that cotton must...
15: ...as cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]].
17: ...ing Jenny]] ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) enabled cheap mass-production of ... - California (63989 bytes)
91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
107: ...] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[San Francisco Bay]] and claimed California for the Unite... - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...d equal right to every resource in nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. H...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpor...
21: ...governed. However, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders.
25: ...bility of education and leisure to otherwise disenfranchised classes along with a desire to participat...
67: [[bg:Политика... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bibleverse||Matthew|16:18-...
91: | <small>[[Aquileia]], Friuli, Italy</small>
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
165: ===From 250===
255: | <small>Africa</small> - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...ry|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. ...
4: ... it is also much reduced in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from days of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport...
8: ...ecue|barbacoa]]'' elsewhere). These were used by French hunters called ''boucaniers''. These hunters...
10: ... corrupted into the English '''freebooters''' and French '''flibustiers'''. It came back into English...
14: ...rived from the European word, which in turn comes from the mediaeval Latin ''cursa'', "raid, expeditio... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...alvados, France|Falaise]], [[Normandy]], now in [[France]], William succeeded to the throne of England...
14: ...rp his place. King [[Henri I of France|Henry I of France]] knighted him at the age of 15. By the time ...
23: ...ade the promise under duress and so may have felt free to break it.
34: ...acing [[History of the English Language#Period of French Domination|English]] as the language of the r...
38: ...e first two large Xs) on the Accord of Winchester from 1072.'']] - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ad after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believe happened at abou...
4: ... language|German]], the holiday's name is derived from ''Pesach'', the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name...
6: ...ter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient n...
69: ...such as the one developed by mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]].
81: ...er]] and the [[Crucifixion]]. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to ... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
53: | [[Friuli Venezia Giulia]]
67: ...]] (Sta Nistrului – Pridnestrovje/Приднест...
135: ... (Komi-Permjackija/Коми-Пермяцки... - Energy (16265 bytes)
5: Energy can be readily transformed from one form into another; for instance, using a ba...
21: ...]] (Btu) which has various values in the range of 1055 J, and the [[horsepower]]-hour (2.6845 MJ).
47: ...nge of the internal energy is the heat that flows from the surroundings into the system plus the work ...
51: ... This law is used in all branches of physics, but frequently violated by quantum mechanics (see [[off ...
65: :<math>E_k = \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{2} \end{matrix} mv^2</math> - Pterosaurs (10375 bytes)
2: ...:Pteronodon2.jpg|250px]] | caption = A Pteronodon from a 1914 study — image <br/>
3: with permission from ''The Pterosaur <br/>
16: ... of the [[clade]] '''Pterosauria'''. They existed from the late [[Triassic]] to the end of the [[Creta...
22: ...[[genera]] of pterosaurs have been found, ranging from the size of a small bird to wingspans in excess...
24: ...e flattened. The best preserved fossils have come from the [[Araripe Plateau]], [[Brazil]]. For some r... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
88: ...ne IX]] Monomachus (1000-1055, ruled [[1042]] - [[1055]]) – married Michael IV's widow (Zoe's thir...
89: ...ry)|Theodora]] Porphyrogenita, (980-1056, ruled [[1055]] - [[1056]]) – daughter of Constantine VII... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ... classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
12: ...]]). The ballets trace his stylistic development: from the ''L'oiseau de feu'', whose style draws larg...
16: [[Image:Stravinsky_picasso.png|frame|Stravinsky and [[Pablo Picasso]] collaborated ...
19: ...arried in [[New York]] where they had gone from [[France]] to escape the war in [[1940]].
21: ...lso able to attract commissions: most of his work from ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specif... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ..., [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петрогра...
40: ...#1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
56: ...ikov]] Palace on the Neva Embankment, constructed from designs by Domenico Trezini in 1710–1716....
62: ...d by [[Count Orlov]] and built in 1768–1785 from various sorts of [[marble]] to a Neoclassical d...
72: ...reat]] and other [[tsar|Russian emperor]]s. Apart from these four principal cathedrals, which operate ...
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