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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... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
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]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...ow bolts]] or [[quarrel]]s. Most sources point to its invention in China, but the crossbow nonetheless...
5: ...]] stock, which has a mechanism to wind and shoot its bolts. These bolts are typically called [[quarre...
12: ...'' of the crossbow. Much as a horse's [[bridle]], it tends to loosen over time, and must be carefully ...
14: ...ove for the bolt to rest upon and travel along as it is shot.
16: ...w]] were used as well. Even [[cotton]] was tried with some success. - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ...estors of the Western Turks, the present-day inhabitants of [[Turkey]], [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan...
5: ...]] proclaimed himself Sultan and established a capital in Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] was captured and h...
7: ...invaded [[Anatolia]] in the [[1260s]] and divided it into small [[emirates]] called the [[Anatolian be...
16: * Mu'izz ad-Din [[Ahmed Sanjar]] [[1097]]-[[1157]]
30: ...rovince|Kerman]] was a nation in southern Persia. It fell in 1187, probably conquered by [[Toghrü... - Konya (2390 bytes)
1: ... population of 742 690 (in 2000) and it is the capital of [[Konya Province|Konya]] [[Provinces of Turk...
3: ...ing to the [[Book of Acts]]. In Christian legend, it was also the birthplace of [[Acts of Paul and The...
5: ...e [[Crusaders]] [[Godfrey of Bouillon]] (August [[1097]]) and [[Frederick Barbarossa]] ([[May 18]], [[11...
7: ...ured by Mongols as well. The city remained the capital of the Turkish puppet-ruler under the Mongol wa...
9: ...nd, in [[1453]], Konya was made the provincial capital of the Ottoman Province of Karamanid. - Easter (31700 bytes)
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2: ...er''' is the most important [[holiday]] of the [[liturgical year|Christian year]], observed in [[March...
4: ... much of its symbolic meaning but also for its position in the calendar; the [[Last Supper]] shared by...
6: ...]] is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of ...
13: ...hristianity|Western]]''' !! '''[[Eastern Christianity|Eastern]]''' - Ytterbium (10684 bytes)
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61: | 1097 [[Kelvin|K]] (1515 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]]) - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...rast to the many that followed – to achieve its stated goal.
5: ... to an entire class of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize...
7: ...Majorca]] and [[Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
9: ...e the Holy Land with the famous words: "God wills it!"
12: ...es and gaining control of their neighbours, than with cooperating against the crusaders.
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