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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]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|righ...
5: ...59_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor ...
9: ...litan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city... - 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. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annaioannovnarussia1693-2.jpg|thumb|H.I.M. Anna Ivanovna...
3: ...1072; Ивановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] - [[October 28]...
5: ==Ascension to the throne==
10: ...t worst. In the hope of establishing a [[constitutional monarchy]] in Russia, they convinced her to si...
19: ...Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Baltic [[Germany|Germa... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...#1083;ексеевна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–...
20: {{succession box|title=[[List of Russian rulers|Empress of Ru... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...#1083;ексеевна'': ''Yekaterína II Alekséyevn...
5: ...s eccentricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alie...
9: ...is document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned mo...
11: ...ed them serfs. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...e relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[...
9: ...od, if not brilliant, but unfortunately her education was both imperfect and desultory. Her father had...
11: ...beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eighte...
13: ...ower, she was treated with liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent nephew [[Pet...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 == - 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: ...1074;на Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11,...
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1072; Ивановна Цвѣтае...
5: ...sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools...
7: === Biography ===
8: ...(This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the P...
10: ...rticularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]]... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew...
3: ...ivity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - 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 Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1072;сильевна Ковале...
5: ...Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: ...s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort th...
9: ...thoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and...
22: ...: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - 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.
11:
13: ... the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow region]]. - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
8: ...ptian history is broken into several different periods according to the dynasty of the ruling [[pharao...
10: ...bout three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
12: ...edynastic Period of Egypt|Predynastic Period]] (Prior to 3100 BC)
13: ...[Early Dynastic Period of Egypt|Early Dynastic Period]] (1st–2nd Dynasties)
15: ...ntermediate Period of Egypt|First Intermediate Period]] (7th–11th Dynasties) - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...o a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
3: ...[http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
9: ...#1072;захстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
21: ...="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: n/a''</small>
23: ...pan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]] - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...lics united since [[2003]] in a loose [[confederation]]. It is located on the west-central [[Balkan Pe...
3: ...fied capital anymore, dividing its common institutions between [[Belgrade]] in Serbia and [[Podgorica]...
5: ...dnica<br/>Srbija i Crna Gora'''</big><br/>State Union of<br> Serbia and Montenegro</big>
17: | align=center colspan=2 | [[Image:LocationSerbiaAndMontenegro.png]]
34: ...;Total ([[2005]])<br/> – [[Population density|Density]] - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the political situation in the country remains uncertain.
10: national_motto = ''none'' |
11: image_map = LocationKyrgyzstan.png |
12: ... = [[National Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic|National Anthem of the <br> Kyrgyz Republic]] |
23: population_estimate = 5,146,281 | - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
13: ...span=2 style="background: #ffffff;" |[[image:LocationTajikistan.png]]
15: | '''[[National anthem]]'''
33: ...p;– Total (2003)<br/> – [[Population density|Density]]
34: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 95th]]<br/> 6,863,752<br/> 48/k...
36: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br/> – Date
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