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- Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...g as Duchess of Courland (now western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Best...
19: ...ving a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Bal...
24: ...gitimate southern boundaries which was brought to fruition by [[Catherine the Great]]. Anna's reign sa...
28: ...], and exclude descendants of [[Peter the Great]] from inheriting the throne. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
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...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
15: ...crocuses appear in [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] frescos at [[Santorini]]), across Central Asia.
17: ... wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winter" frost or snowfall.
19: The spice [[saffron]] is obtained from the stamens of ''Crocus sativus'', a fall-bloom...
20: ...from the Latin adjective ''crocatus'', meaning saffron yellow.
24: ...arieties still in the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed pie... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman...
53: ... in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in t...
60: ...his was the [[Crimean war]] in which the English, French, Ottomans and others united against Russia.
61: ...om foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 18... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
3: ...re thought to have been non Indo-Europeans, apart from the original Mitanni leadership. However, Kurds...
7: ...of history of tribes in overwhelming numbers who, from whatever quarter they may have sprung, belonged...
11: ...iended, if we may judge from tradition as well as from the remains still existing in the country, by t...
17: ... waste since the passage of [[Timur]], with Kurds from the Hakkiari and Bohtan districts.
19: ...e Kurds, owing to the remoteness of their country from the capital and the decline of Turkey, had grea... - Assyrian (19682 bytes)
11: ...aic (also known as Neo-Aramaic) belongs to the [[Afro-Asiatic]] language family, the [[Semitic languag...
20: ...] to designate a common language used as [[lingua franca]] by speakers of different dialects).
22: ...on its speakers in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Aside from the toll that [[World War I]] and the attacks b...
26: ...trians, Mandeans and others, they were restricted from certain employment that would place them in sit...
32: ...as pagans. (Buddhists and Hindus as well as some African groups were the ones with which they came in ...
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