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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. - 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... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...80;на I Алексеевна) ([[April 15...
20: {{succession box|title=[[List of Russian rulers|Empress of Ru... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...0;на II Алексеевна'': ''Yekateri...
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]]. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&...
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]]. - 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: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
21: ...="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: n/a''</small>
23: ...pan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]] - 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 - 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: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
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]] - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles)...
4: ...ese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue that the [[...
8: ...y [[Technology during World War II|war-time inventions]].
10: ...mmunist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Republic of China]].
18: ...0, and vowed to defend one another against aggression. This replaced the German-Japanese [[Anti-Comint... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...n wires. It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is...
5: ...cus in principle, though has a different construction.
7: ...e:Abacus-1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classro...
8: ...am. The abacus can be reset to the starting position instantly by a quick jerk along the horizontal a...
10: ...action]], [[square root]] and [[cube root]] operations at high speed. - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...opposite electric charges have been placed. Intentional capacitors have thin conducting plates (usuall...
18: ... [[dielectric]] (that is, non-[[electrical conduction|conducting]]) substance that separates the plate...
30: ...across the capacitor where the constant of proportionality is the [[capacitance]], C:
45: ... or broader ranges for some types. Adjustable versions have stability issues. Another figure of merit...
51: ...eakdown from arcing, because any air that becomes ionized is soon replaced by fresh air . Large-value... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...on from a recognised [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. Pirates usually target other [[ship]]s, but ha...
4: ...with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion [[United_States_dollar|USD]] per year), particul...
8: ... became their governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...s involving themselves in [[Latin American revolution]]s and [[coup d'etat|coups]] and then finally ca...
12: ...he Indonesians and the Malaysians who form the nations bracketing the [[Straits of Malacca]]. Original... - 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|... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...Constitution of Russian Federation|A new constitution]], creating a strong presidency, was approved by...
4: ...]], was a bastion of antireform communists and nationalists.
8: ...government; they also controlled local administration.
10: ...ought constitutional reforms that led to the election of new republic legislatures with substantial bl...
12: ...fice, whereas Gorbachev had eschewed such an election and had himself appointed by the Soviet parliame...
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