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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 град...
49: [[fr:Jardins suspendus de S魩ramis et murs de Babylon... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman... - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
9: ... Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in [[1089]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his da... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...ntil her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
7: ...ilovich Menshikov|Aleksandr Menshikov]], the best friend of [[Peter the Great]]. In [[1703]], while vi... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode...
17: ...|Nikita Panin]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd sta... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1077;́та (Елисаве́т) Пе...
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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ry, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effecti...
11: ...oviet Union|Communist Party]] and joined with her friend, [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], to form a left-wi... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&...
11: ...ral roots to Sofia's mathematical bent. Some came from her father, accidentally; he had studied calcul...
15: ...ame manner it was explained historically, and the friend was so impressed he implored Sophia's father ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...] '''София Асгатовна...
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...
45: ...080;шь ты нас, Луиджи? ...
53: ...100; всегда снега)'' on verses of Genn... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно... - 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...
9: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
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... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
37: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[September 9]], [[1...
51: ...n''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the ''T...
69: ...m to have been flawed, arrousing many accusations from opposition parties that President Emomali Rakhm...
73: ...neworld.org/ips2/may/tajik.html Account of events from independence leading to the Bishkek agreement o...
105: ...his is a relatively new phenomenon and originates from the conquest of Central Asia by the Russian Emp... - 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: ...1086;е агентство'') is the government agency... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ... are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationalit...
7: ...74;т ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" ...
11: ...alled '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word]] formed from the Latin ''spatium'', "space", and Greek ''nau...
13: ... The term was coined in May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih from [[Malaysia]], who used it first in [[newsgroup]...
20: ...nd [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]]. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km ... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. It was in use ce...
8: ...ng the horizontal axis to spin all the beads away from the horizontal beam at the center.
35: ...bead from the upper deck and (later) another bead from lower deck in each column of the Chinese abacu...
43: ...for native Japanese were all made with all wooden frame. In this way the "thickness" of the soroban (f...
55: ...ssian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book. The wire... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward th...
14: :<math>C = \frac{Q}{V}</math>
32: :<math>i(t) = C \frac{dv(t)}{dt}</math>
34: The [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
36: :<math>Z = \frac{1}{j \omega C} = - j X_C </math> - 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... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... or '''Russia''' (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'...
6: ...tage. This influence is notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ... The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimila...
17: ...ded the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the w...
23: ...unctional Christian state on the Eastern European frontier, allowing it to claim succession to the leg... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...cs' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
14: ...go]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a State o...
18: ... and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's rump government recog...
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