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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...and [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise there is little evidence for their existence. Some (circumsta...
7: ... there clearly showing gardens have been found. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of...
13: ... Seven Wonders of the World. According to the tradition, the gardens did not hang but rather grew on t...
15: ... her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
19: ...cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be p... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...ut the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
5: ...aneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...arly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban regio...
9: ...ntry's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...ra was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...n [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...[[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...nder command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
10: ...dinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
11: ...attle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...1085;на Ивановна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] -...
7: ...puted by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
10: ...pularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
17: ...e of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
19: ...foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhardt Munn... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], particularly in [[P...
7: ...t that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the thron...
9: ...ed every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ...ersonal dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her m...
13: ... all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...h''', Домонто́вич) ([[March 31]] ([[Mar...
5: ...Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects...
7: ...omen's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and educating women about the new marriage, ...
11: ...after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
15: ...me, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influence in government policy or operat... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...1072; Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old Style and...
3: ...ative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
9: ...oetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...olay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectiv...
17: ....com/jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...e of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; sh...
8: ...magination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of M...
12: ...and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1072; Терешко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]...
7: ...ok 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in...
9: ...n the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...she was appointed professor at [[Stockholm University]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a pro...
3: ...garian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus o...
9: ... on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] and practiced his favourite piano work, [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s...
11: ... took calculus it came to her very quickly, as if it had always been there.
13: ...Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for mathematics. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1080;я Асгатовна Губа...
3: ...ervatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''. - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1089;а Семёновна Латы...
5: ...World Championships, winning the team all-around title.
7: ... bronze medal in the now discontinued team event with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, ...
9: ...ally, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11: ...cs]], Latynina was beaten in the all-around competition by [[Vera Caslavska|Věra Čᳬavs... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...cated in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], ...
3: ...]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi)...
31: | '''[[Capital]]'''
34: | '''Largest city'''
46: ...al ([[2001]])<br/> [[Population density|Density]] - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...ited since [[2003]] in a loose [[confederation]]. It is located on the west-central [[Balkan Peninsula...
3: ... unified capital anymore, dividing its common institutions between [[Belgrade]] in Serbia and [[Podgor...
5: ...72; и Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srb...
23: | [[Serbian language|Serbian]] (implicitly)<sup>1</sup>
25: | '''[[Capital]]''' - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...tion on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the political situation in the country remains uncertain.
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14: capital = [[Bishkek]] |
17: leader_titles = [[President of Kyrgyzstan|Preside...
19: largest_city = [[Bishkek]] | - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
33: ...(2003)<br/> – [[Population density|Density]]
51: ...is a country in [[Central Asia]]. It has borders with [[Afghanistan]], [[China]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], and ...
56: ...istory, mostly the [[Persian Empire]]. Before AD, it was part of the [[Bactrian Empire]]. [[Arab]]s br...
58: ...into [[Central Asia]]. During the [[Great Game]], it came in control of Tajikistan. After the overthro... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...on the moon in the [[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
4: ...that would be done. During the [[20th century]], with the development of adequate propulsion technolog...
10: ==Orbiting and reaching space==
11: .... The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ...n orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], ... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...ruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuvering unit. Picture courtesy NASA]]
3: ...from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
7: ...he [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kosmonavt)'', whi...
9: ...dictated by political reasons. However in the United States, the term "astronaut" is typically appli...
11: ... the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States of America. - Politics (7193 bytes)
1: {{Politics}}
2: ...gh it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed in all human group interactio...
4: ...cquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
8: ==A political animal== - World War II (58065 bytes)
2: ...in [[World War I]] were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive and expensive armed confli...
4: ...ich date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish September Campaign|invasio...
6: ... it continued in China. In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of Germany on [[8 May]] [[1945]] (...
8: ...ments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bom...
10: ... led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]]...
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