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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
7: ...th gardens that existed at [[Nineveh]] as tablets from there clearly showing gardens have been found. ...
15: ...n alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and...
17: ...ng suspended from cables or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word [[krem...
43: [[bg:Висящи градини н...
49: [[fr:Jardins suspendus de S魩ramis et murs de Babylon... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1083;а́на Евге́ньевн&... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1057;офия Асгатовна Г...
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...
53: ...1077;гда снега)'' on verses of Gennadi Aigi for chamber ...
56: ...090;во в разгаре)'' for viola and orchestra ... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
16: ...cians of [[Byblos]] and [[Tyre]], the [[Minoans]] from the island of [[Crete]], the [[Greece|Greek]]s ...
18: ...oved from Thebes to [[Byblos]], around [[1070s BC|1075 BCE]], and found strange that Zakar Baal, King of...
20: ... to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted friendly to Egypt, kicking out the [[Kushite]] [[Tah...
25: ...Amun, where the statue of the god was transferred from [[Karnak]] during the holy days of the
28: ...sts, who were still versant in [[hieroglyphics]]. From that moment on, the grandeur of Thebes was to b... - 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... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon...
50: ...1095;еское агентство... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
7: ...ght an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing...
9: ...day Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except duri...
11: ...vestiture Controversy]], which had started around 1075 and was still on-going during the First Crusade. ...
18: ...n and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]] - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
4: ...s located on the west bank of the [[Nile]] across from [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] (modern [[Luxor]]). It...
6: ...lley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials in the Valley o...
42: ... De Luca (photographs), ''Valley of the Kings'' (Friedman/Fairfax, 2001) – Spectacular photogra... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...th century|14th centuries]]. The Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquer...
3: ...g the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzantine Empire...
5: ...] was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[1156]] and died the following yea...
7: ...lik Shah's death, the [[Crusade]]s prevented them from regaining their former empire. For a brief peri...
34: ... [[Sultan Shah of Kerman|Sultan Shah]] [[1074]]-[[1075]] - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...2002]].) Although Lindbergh was the first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten w...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
38: ...snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair in ... - 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.
31: ...stance came with the [[Revolt of the Earls]] in [[1075]].
34: ...acing [[History of the English Language#Period of French Domination|English]] as the language of the r... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
15: ... Borjigin (''Боржигин''). His mother was named [[Hoelun]...
19: ...oden collar around his neck. He escaped with help from a sympathetic captor. His mother, Hoelun, taugh...
21: ...], was born suspiciously soon after she was freed from the Merkit, leading to questions regarding the ...
43: ... of honor. Generally, the Mongol Empire was also friendly to outside trade along the [[Silk Road]], a...
53: ...ounted archers to attack their enemies on several fronts at once. - 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 ... - Taiga (2576 bytes)
1: ...Russian language|Russian]] тайга́) is a [[biome]] characterized by it...
11: ...cid that helps prevent plants other than conifers from growing there. This is known as [[allelopathy]... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
53: | [[Friuli Venezia Giulia]]
77: ...я – Adyge/Адыгэ)
79: ...#1083;тайдынг)
85: | [[Dagestan]] (Dagestan/Дагестан)
87: ...sp;– Gialgiaj Mochk/Гiалгiай Мохк) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw...
25: The groupings ([[taxa]]) of [[taxonomy]] from most general to most specific are: - Capricornus (6733 bytes)
19: ...nty. Some ancient sources claim that this derives from the sun "taking nourishment" while in the const...
30: ...diac]] ([[December 22]] - [[January 19]]) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu as...
49: [[fr:Capricorne (constellation)]]
60: [[ru:Козерог (созвезk... - 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: ...etrograd''' (Петрогра́д, [[1914]]–[[192...
40: ...#1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
42: ...1085;ый округ).
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...
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