Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...up to 5.1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[c...
5: ...steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled,...
8: ...ke copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy co...
11: ...pearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...cal composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form. - 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 - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...ess of [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until...
5: ... of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to work in the laun...
7: ...end of [[Peter the Great]]. In [[1703]], while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Marfa, and sh...
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]])
17: ... title of Empress. The real power, however, was with her former lover, Menshikov, and the Supreme Pri... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: '''Catherine II''' (''Екатерина II А...
5: ...entricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alienated...
9: ... the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned more conserva...
11: ...es full control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored...
13: ...ine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established th... - 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: ...ontovich''', Домонто́вич) ([[March 31]]...
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: ...1085;на Ахматова, Аннk...
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. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...a Savitskaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Ев...
3: ...e first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station ... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...' ({{lang-ru|Валенти́на Вла...
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 Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1092;ия Асгатовна Губ...
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: ...1085;овна Латынина'''; born [[De...
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)...
9: ...1072; Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big...
31: | '''[[Capital]]'''
34: | '''Largest city''' - 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: ...#1086;смонавт ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the ...
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]]... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...gth. A member of the [[mongoose]] family, it inhabits all parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern...
19: ...es. More than one field researcher has reported witnessing meerkats in some sort of singing ceremony ...
22: ...plant]]s and fungi (the desert truffle ''[[Kalaharituber pfeilii]]''. Meerkats are immune to certain t...
24: ...s as the pup's tutor. Meerkats forage in a group with one sentry watching for predators while the othe...
26: ...bility to dig through a quantity of sand equal to its own weight in just seconds. Digging is done to c... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...was in use centuries before the adoption of the written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely...
8: ...beam. The abacus can be reset to the starting position instantly by a quick jerk along the horizontal...
10: ...tion]], [[division (mathematics)|division]], [[addition]], [[subtraction]], [[square root]] and [[cube...
12: ... arithmetic''' is the calculating technique used with various types of abaci, in particular the Chines...
19: original in the Paris Library. It gives a much clearer picture that the
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).