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- Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - 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... - 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: ...1072;ве́т) Петро́вна) ([[Dec...
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... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...1085;на Ахматова, Аннk...
3: Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems through poem cycles, such as ...
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsve...
13: ...g, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1086;вна Цвѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1...
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...a Savitskaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Ев... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...' ({{lang-ru|Валенти́на Вла...
9: ...he Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps b... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1092;ия Асгатовна Губ...
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: ...1072;я трещотка)'' for six percussionists (1991)
47: ...077;т и нечет)'' for seven percussionists, including cymbalom ... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1085;овна Латынина'''; born [[De... - 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: ...1072; Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big...
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: ...#1058;оҷикистон), formerly known as the ''Tajik So...
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: ...1077; агентство'') is the government agency respon... - 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 ... - 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]] - 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... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...l parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern [[Africa]].
19: Meerkats have strong, curved front claws for digging and a sharply-pointed snout....
32: ...through the character [[Timon (Lion King)|Timon]] from the film ''[[The Lion King]]''.
41: [[bg:Сурикат]]
44: [[fr:Suricate]] - 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...
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