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- 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
6: ...ession]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with her f...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
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.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gu...
28: ...e musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and Russian s...
30: ...l, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russi... - 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: ...azakh-controlled territories by [[Imperial Russia|tsarist Russia]].
74: ...nging to the Senior Horde in the [[1860s]], the [[tsar]]s effectively ruled over most of the territory b... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]...
52: ...led along the [[Yenisey River]], where they lived from the [[6th century|6th]] until the [[8th century...
54: ...an takeover instigated numerous revolts against [[tsar]]ist authority, and many Kyrgyz opted to move int...
56: ...mid-[[1920s]] by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who were also referred to as Kirgh...
58: ...[Joseph Stalin]], who controlled the Soviet Union from the late 1920's until [[1953]]. - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
37: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[September 9]], [[1...
58: ...ntrol of Tajikistan. After the overthrow of the [[Tsar]] in [[1917]], Tajik guerillas waged a war agains...
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... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: ...inian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
27: ...n the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: ...the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe...
61: ...re, particularily in the [[acritic songs]], where frontiersmen (ακρίτε&#... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - Chin (993 bytes)
11: * In [[tsar]]ist [[Russia]], [[chin]] was a rank given to a c... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...ted, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the earliest days of the Empire.
11: ...History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and the [[German Empire]] (see [[Kaiser...
23: ...final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] from a [[citizen army]] to a professional one.
33: ...Romanizing extensive territories in the East, in Africa, in Hispania and Gaul, beyond those areas that...
40: ...few, works of poetry, legislation and engineering from this period provide important insights into Rom... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
16: ...he was to continue his education and gain loyalty from the Macedonian legions, while waiting to accomp...
23: ...ly. Octavian immediately dropped the "Octavianus" from his name, and referred to himself simply as Gai...
25: ...r’s will. Octavian, however, gained support from the masses and conflict between the two seemed ...
34: ...us. Antony had reached Gaul and gathered strength from the legions stationed there. Together with [[Ma...
38: ...spania and [[Narbonensis]] and Octavian received Africa, Sardinia and Sicily. This Second Triumvirate... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Hugue...
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Fort...
10: *[[1801]] - [[Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia]] is struck with a sword, th...
17: *1889 - The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[L...
19: ...New York]] for a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian ... - Russia (28007 bytes)
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...
27: ...Terrible]], the first leader designated [[Tsar]] (from the Roman ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'', also w... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
12: ...]] after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from a bank.
26:
31: ...rg-Gotha]], the last [[List of Bulgarian monarchs|Tsar]] of [[Bulgaria]] when he was a child, was sworn ...
33: ...] - [[Jim Traficant|James Traficant]] is expelled from the [[United States House of Representatives]] ...
34: *[[2002]] - [[Alfred Moisiu]] becomes President of [[Albania]]. - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
1: [[Image:house_large_seal.gif|framed|Seal of the House of Representatives]]
9: ...wer house. The plan drew the support of delegates from large states such as [[Virginia]], [[Massachuse...
11: ...er several southern states declared [[secession]] from the Union. The war culminated in the South's de...
15: ...tenure of Republican [[Thomas Brackett Reed]]. "[[Tsar|Czar]] Reed," as he was nicknamed, attempted to p...
17: ...sentatives during most of the administration of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ([[1933]]–[[1945]]), o... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
4: ...s are listed only if they have an anthem separate from or in addition to that of their mother country.
21: ...]''||''[[Let_us_all_unite_and_celebrate_together|African Union Anthem]]
69: |[[Belize]]||[[Land of the Free]]
75: |''[[Biafra]]''||''[[Land of the Rising Sun (national anthem...
111: |[[Central African Republic]]||[[La Renaissance]] (The Rebirth) - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
1: ... of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], [[France]], and the [[Ottoman Empire]], joined somewha...
12: ...esieged the city of [[Sevastopol]], home of the [[tsar]]'s [[Black Sea]] fleet and a threat of future Ru...
14: ...-deckers, twelve 84-gun 2-deckers and four 60-gun frigates in the Black Sea, plus a large number of sm...
20: ...tion of Sevastopol and the accession of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]] peace negotiations be...
25: ...Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s poem. [[Cholera]] undercut French preparations for the [[siege of Sevastopol]],... - Borzoi (4195 bytes)
63: ... bred; however, after the revolution, many of the Tsarist breeds were neglected.
65: ...he Borzois would charge the wolf, attack its neck from both sides, and hold it until the hunter arrive...
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