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- Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
5: ...e of the few Byzantine empresses born into the purple (that is, as the legitimate child of an reigning...
7: ...Romanus III]] Argyrus, the eparch of [[Constantinople]], on [[November 12]], [[1028]]. Constantine hop...
9: ...[[Constantine IX]] Monomachus (reigned [[1042]]-[[1055]]) who outlived her by four years. Zoe died in [[... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
2: ...mperor|Byzantine Empress]] from [[January 11]], [[1055]] to [[August 31]], [[1056]]. She was the daught...
8: ... severity towards private enemies and the undue employment of menials for advisers. She died suddenly ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1080;саве́т) Петро́вн&...
13: ...ured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the ...
19: ...ardie took a leading part in the revolution which placed the daughter of Peter the Great on the Russia...
23: ...ate as eight o'clock the next morning very few people in the city were aware of it.
25: ...r government. Her usually keen judgment and her diplomatic tact again and again recall Peter the Great... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
56: ...'And: The Feast is in Full Procession (И: Празднес... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
76: ...ed by a specially created Migration Department (Переселе...
84: ... mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs took place in [[Almaty]] to protest the methods of the [[...
91: ... standards. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Min...
93: ...administrative divisions (14 regions, or oblasts, plus the cities of Astana and Almaty). The president... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...ber]] that grows around the seeds of the [[cotton plant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subt...
3: ...ts-growing-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
9: ...o. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated differen...
13: ... the ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to fe...
26: ...ants that have been selectively bred so that each plant grows more fiber. In 2002, cotton was grown on... - California (63989 bytes)
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57: Grass = [[Stipa|Purple Needlegrass]] |
81: ...Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
82: ... 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9.
86: 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ... decisions for groups. Although it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed ...
4: ...tical behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's...
14: ...bes the transformation of human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an u...
18: ...t was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of [[Feudalism]] a...
23: ...r between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebian]] general [[citizens]]. It also contained t... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
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25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small>
358: | Papa '''Simplicius''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognis...
8: ...eir governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...were known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'...
12: ...f Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the...
40: ...l freedom of the high seas, and violate the principle ''extra territorium jus dicenti impune non paret... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
9: ...een found. In the patriotic print he is wearing [[plate armour]] that was invented generations after h...
14: ...dy. He lost three guardians to plots to usurp his place. King [[Henri I of France|Henry I of France]] ...
18: ...[Odo of Bayeux]] and [[Robert, Count of Mortain]] played significant roles in his life.
23: ...ecked in Normandy (c. [[1064]]). Harold made this pledge while in captivity and was reportedly tricked...
25: ...ed Harold Godwinson’s coronation which took place on [[January 5]], [[1066]] making him King [[H... - Easter (31700 bytes)
4: ...he [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought o...
63: ...d Western churches. The reform was proposed for implementation starting in [[2001]], but it was not ul...
69: ...lations for the date of Easter can be somewhat complicated. See [[computus]] for a discussion covering...
73: ...mining the holiday's date were also used. For example, [[Quartodecimanism]] was the practice of settin...
89: ...gy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent "Feast of Feasts" in the [[... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
8: ...("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural History|Naturalis historia]]'' ("Nat...
14: ... but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
22: ...o [[Aristarchus]] of [[Samos]]. Some put in this place also Ptolemy of Alexandria. Hipparchus writin...
34: ...that the Chaldeans routinely made. Preserved examples date from [[652 BC]] to [[130|AD 130]], but pro...
45: ...arly various relations between the periods of the planets were known. The relations that Ptolemy attr... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
7: ...("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural History|Naturalis historia]]'' ("Nat...
13: ... but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
21: ...o [[Aristarchus]] of [[Samos]]. Some put in this place also Ptolemy of Alexandria. Hipparchus writin...
33: ...that the Chaldeans routinely made. Preserved examples date from [[652 BC]] to [[130|AD 130]], but pro...
44: ...arly various relations between the periods of the planets were known. The relations that Ptolemy attr... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
67: ...]] (Sta Nistrului – Pridnestrovje/Приднест...
135: ... (Komi-Permjackija/Коми-Пермяцки... - Energy (16265 bytes)
1: ...l for change", however, misses many important examples of energy as it exists in the physical world.
3: ...instead of the statue the need for energy to accomplish this becomes apparent. You can feel the gravit...
5: ...onverted into thermal energy. In the previous example of holding the fifty pound weight, the work you ...
15: ... simple coincidence: a torque of 1 newton-metre applied on 1 radian requires exactly 1 newton-metre=jo...
21: ...]] (Btu) which has various values in the range of 1055 J, and the [[horsepower]]-hour (2.6845 MJ). - Pterosaurs (10375 bytes)
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24: ...tologists to study. The first find in the Araripe Plateau was discovered in 1974.
38: ...The presence of fur (and the demands of flight) imply that pterosaurs were warm-blooded ('[[endotherm]... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ...f the Empire even as late as [[Heraclius]] (who replaced the traditional Roman imperial title of "Augu...
77: *[[Constantine VII]] Porphyrogenitus (the Purple-born) (905-959, ruled [[913]] - [[959]]) –...
87: *[[Zoe (empress)|Zo�]] Porphyrogenita (the Purple-born) (978-1050, regent [[1028]] - [[1050]]) &nd...
88: ...ne IX]] Monomachus (1000-1055, ruled [[1042]] - [[1055]]) – married Michael IV's widow (Zoe's thir...
89: ...ry)|Theodora]] Porphyrogenita, (980-1056, ruled [[1055]] - [[1056]]) – daughter of Constantine VII... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...e Firebird)]]'' {{lang|ru|Жар-Птица}} . For some, these...
7: ...Time magazine]] as one of the most influential people of the century.
14: ... displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifes...
23: ... of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, [[Otto Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenber...
25: ...lectual and professional life in the USA. When he planned to write an opera with [[W. H. Auden]], the ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
31: | [[License plate]]: || 78, 98
36: ..., [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петрогра...
40: ...ntre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (с...
60: ...pg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the [[Winter Palace]] at right]]
62: ... of Russia|Emperor Paul]] in 1797–1801 to replace the earlier Summer Palace. The Tauride palace ...
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