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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ... known as '''Catherine the Great''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]...
5: ...n-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarina [[Elizabeth of Russia|Elizabeth]] selected Sop...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...ession]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with her f...
21: ...eleased due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others with Czolgosz's actions. G...
45: * <blockquote>Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim...No [[revol...
51: ...n the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian tsar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to w... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
12: ...]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to seve...
14: ... Tsvetaeva studied literary history at the [[Sorbonne]]. During this time, a major revolutionary chang...
16: ...namoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and [[Anna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did...
22: ...le of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, and ends ...
26: ...e collections ''Separation, Poems to Blok and The Tsar Maiden''. In August 1922 the family moved to [[Pr... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...udied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...n uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
17: ...rred to as a geographical area, under the Russian Tsar), an area known to have a significant [[Jew]]ish ...
39: *''Marie Curie: A Life'', by Susan Quinn, ISBN 0201887940
40: *''Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie'', by Barbara Goldsmith, I... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
28: ...e musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and Russian s...
30: ...ssian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the ''skomorokhi'', who w... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
70: ...[[4th century|fourth century AD]] through the beginning of the [[13th century]], the territory of Kaza...
72: ...azakh-controlled territories by [[Imperial Russia|tsarist Russia]].
74: ...nging to the Senior Horde in the [[1860s]], the [[tsar]]s effectively ruled over most of the territory b...
76: ...t against colonial rule during the final years of tsarist Russia, with the most serious uprising, the [[...
139: ...rency convertibility, wage rate determination, openness to foreign investment, and government control ... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
52: ...inant religion in the region. Most Kyrgyz are [[Sunni Muslim]]s of the [[Hanafi]] school.
54: ...an takeover instigated numerous revolts against [[tsar]]ist authority, and many Kyrgyz opted to move int...
68: ... the U.S.S.R. on [[August 31]], 1991. Kyrgyz was announced as the state language in September 1991. (I...
222: ... editor-maintained directory focused on travel planning and research - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
58: ...ntrol of Tajikistan. After the overthrow of the [[Tsar]] in [[1917]], Tajik guerillas waged a war agains...
100: .... On [[August 21]]st [[2001]], the [[Red Cross]] announced that a [[famine]] was striking Tajikistan, ...
105: ...ead and write. Most of the population follows [[Sunni]] [[Islam]], although a sizeable number of [[Shi... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
53: ...ertheless, this was not intended in a demeaning manner since he ascribed his changes to ''historiograp...
74: ...came ruler in the west, with his capital in [[Ravenna]]. At this point it is common to refer to the em...
80: The [[6th century]] saw the beginning of the conflicts with the Byzantine Empire's t...
82: ... university at Athens), producing the epic poet Nonnus, the lyric poet Paul the Silentiary, the histor...
84: ...640 and conquering most of the [[Exarchate of Ravenna]] in [[751]], leaving the Byzantines with contro... - World War I (62979 bytes)
8: ...ely the first phase of a three-decade long war spanning the period [[1914]]–[[1945]]. Other scho...
19: ...British, German, Austrian and Russian military planning system. This system, which bears a striking re...
24: ...at a nationalist [[Russia]] would back Serbia to annex [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] areas of Austria-Hung...
31: ... [National Defence], and to proceed in the same manner against the other societies which engage in pro...
43: ...m communications between [[Kaiser Wilhelm]] and [[Tsar]] [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] (the famo... - Chin (993 bytes)
9: ...'''Chin''' is a variant English spelling of '''Chinn''' [http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.as...
11: * In [[tsar]]ist [[Russia]], [[chin]] was a rank given to a c... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
5: ...nsignia to [[Constantinople]]. After another millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known...
11: ...History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and the [[German Empire]] (see [[Kaiser...
37: ...]], a disorganized work which remains the best [[annals]] of the Augustan period, and
66: ...o his mother and his tutors, particularly Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]. However, as he...
88: ... in much the same way of his Julio-Claudian forerunners, the latter having difficulty even obtaining, ... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
7: ... the greatest of the Roman Emperors, with the beginning of the [[Pax Romana]], which continued for nea...
18: ...mand in the office of [[master of the horse]] beginning in the year [[43 BC]]. By the age of 20, Octav...
70: ...he Roman world. Through proscription, political cunning and some military success, he had built up a c...
94: ... encourage the rumors that followed. Rather than announce war with his rival, Octavian declared war on...
96: ...tony had marched his army into Greece where he planned to oppose Octavian’s advance, and the two... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
10: *[[1801]] - [[Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia]] is struck with a sword, th...
24: ...he then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the [[All India Muslim L...
27: ...[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Grethe & J? Ingmann]] win the eighth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for ...
31: ...]] - [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]...
63: *[[1929]] - Sir [[Roger Bannister]], runner - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...ated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Mur...
23: ... reconquest, finally subjugating its enemies and annexing their territories. After the fall of Consta...
27: ...d surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, and annexed the vast expanses of [[Siberia]]. The Russian...
29: ...nd on the eve of [[World War I]], the position of Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and his dyn...
37: ...[[Mikhail Gorbachev]] introduced [[glasnost]] (openness) and [[perestroika]] (restructuring) in an att... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
8: *[[1832]] - [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across th...
11: *[[1866]] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be rea...
16: *[[1923]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]],...
19: ...fire at a home for aged people in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] kills 48 people.
29: ...]] against the [[New York Yankees]], has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".... - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
4: ...ral]] Congress was created as a result of the [[Connecticut Compromise]], a compromise made at the [[H...
9: ...tates. Eventually, the Convention reached the [[Connecticut Compromise]] or the Great Compromise, unde...
15: ...ocrats and dissatisfied Republicans who opposed Cannon's arguably heavy-handed tactics.
17: ...us times during the next decade. However, after winning the elections of [[1954]], the Democratic Part...
27: ...led by special elections, conducted in the same manner. - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
113: |[[Chad]]||[[La Tchadienne]]
119: ...l Anthem of the Republic of China]], [[National Banner Song]]''
226: |''[[Greenland]]''||''[[Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit]] (You Our Ancient Land)''
246: |[[Haiti]]||[[La Dessalinienne]]
268: |[[Ireland, Republic of]]||[[Amhrá® na bhFiann]] (The Soldier's Song) - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
7: ===Beginning of the war===
12: ...esieged the city of [[Sevastopol]], home of the [[tsar]]'s [[Black Sea]] fleet and a threat of future Ru...
14: ...s had to scuttle their ships and used the naval cannons as additional artillery, and the ships' crews ...
20: ...tion of Sevastopol and the accession of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]] peace negotiations be...
25: ...hich was immortalised in [[Alfred Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s poem. [[Cholera]] undercut French prepar... - Borzoi (4195 bytes)
29: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: ||Hound
31: |[[Australian National Kennel Council|ANKC]]: ||Group 4 (Hounds)
33: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: ||Group 2 - Hounds
35: |[[Kennel Club (UK)|KC(UK)]]: ||Hound
37: |[[New Zealand Kennel Club|NZKC]]: ||Hound
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