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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: ...0px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interpretation]]
5: ...tely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ...s of thought think that through the ages the location may have been confused with gardens that existed...
10: ...t|thumb|300px|Hanging Garden, Assyrian interpretation]]
11: ...den.gif|a hanging Garden, 21st century interpretation]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
11: ...e when she died ten months later.<br>8. Final version of her posthumous name as given in July [[749]]....
16: ...s posts and locations along his life. The most serious claimant for her birth place is Lizhou (利...
20: ...er as a concubine, and what's more a nun if traditional history is to be believed, was found utterly s...
22: Wu Zetian soon revealed her talent at manipulation and intrigue. She first had the concubine n饠Xi...
24: ... character Zhao (曌), an entirely new invention created along with 11 other characters in order ... - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
7: ...me evidence she was born after her father's accession to the [[England|English]] throne in [[1066]]. S...
9: ... a proud and self-indulgent man, who had no intention of taking the cross until Adela insisted upon it...
20: ...on this [[crusade of 1101|second crusading expedition]] in [[1102]], for their children were still min... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, the...
5: ... [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshe...
7: ...tion, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist f...
11: ...[[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally ...
13: ...er of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...' (''Анна Ахматова, Аl...
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the fir...
9: ...minence she was chosen for several political positions: From [[1966]] to [[1974]] she was a member of ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...[[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...], in the [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduat...
5: ...ostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken pa...
7: ...lina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vy...
9: ...ium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual mast... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ... [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]]. She holds the r...
5: ...d internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-around title.
9: ...ly, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
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13: ... the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow region]]. - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]...
13: ...er than that it was a [[plant]]; people in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] ...
15: ...C, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]]...
17: ...uction capacity was further improved by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[17...
19: ...ading occupations of [[slave]]s. After [[emancipation]], the [[share cropping]] system evolved which i... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ... between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...ntific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, but a viable practice.
6: ...dvar-Hazy Center|NASM annex]] at [[Dulles International Airport]] in Northern Virginia displays an un...
11: ...The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].) - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...auts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
5: ==International variations==
7: ...on of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kosmonavt)...
11: ...women into space in cooperation with the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States of A...
15: ...b|400px|Astronauts on the International Space Station]] - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquering various tribes on their way to [[Transoxiana]].
5: ...ird son [[Ahmed Sanjar]], unsatisfied by his portion of the inheritance, took over the empire. His br...
7: ...rom regaining their former empire. For a brief period, [[Toghrül III|Toğrül III]], was...
30: [[Kerman province|Kerman]] was a nation in southern Persia. It fell in 1187, probably co...
35: ...[Hussain Omar of Kerman|Hussain Omar]] [[1075]]-[[1084]] - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United St...
4: ...ssolution in December [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federat...
6: ...but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...s]]. The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assi...
15: ...o the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[11th century|... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: ...aption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nation]]"'' —Mohandas Gandhi |
5: quotation=An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. |
13: ...]]'', has influenced both nationalist and international movements for peaceful change.
15: ... with truth" reveals his inner persona and reflections on his early life. - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...al Trails System]], as the '''Mormon Pioneer [[National Historic Trail]]'''.
4: ...830]] and [[1844]], most notably in [[Kirtland, Ohio]], [[Independence, Missouri]], and [[Nauvoo, Illi...
6: ...isis (Mormonism)|schismed]] into several denominations after [[Death of Joseph Smith, Jr.|Smith's deat...
9: {{Main|Mormon pioneer}}
10: ... He insisted the Mormons should settle in a location no one else wanted and felt the isolated [[Great... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...esus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believ...
4: ...by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover [[seder]],...
57: ...n most countries with a generally Christian tradition, but not as a rule in the [[United States]], exc...
59: ...date of Easter has often been a matter for contention.
61: ...d as converted into the [[Julian calendar]] by [[Dionysius Exiguus]] (certain proof of this does not e... - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
1: ...ontinent]] from the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain sys...
3: ...the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin. An estimated 750 million people live in the watershed area of the Himalay...
5: ...]. ([[:Image:himalaya_annotated.jpg|annotated version]])]]
9: ...omprises three parallel ranges, arranged by elevation and geological age.
10: ... is also the oldest of the three. It has an elevation of more than 6000 m and contains a large number ... - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ...Czarist]] and [[Soviet]] rules and under the relgious leadership of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].
9: ...ure in the paiting. The most comprehensive collection of Icon art is found at the [[Tretyakov Gallery]...
18: ...ov]]. Initially [[Narkompros]] (ministry of education), which was also in charge of the arts, supporte...
22: ...completed by the Bolognese architect [[Aristotle Fioravanti]]. European architecture was firmly establ...
25: *[[Cathedral of the Assumption, Smolensk]] - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
17: | 1 autonomous region
21: | rowspan=5 | 5 autonomous regions
32: | rowspan=2 | 2 special administrative regions *
38: | 1 autonomous province under international law
48: | 1 autonomous region
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