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  1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
    5: ... at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful descrip...
    19: ...th earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are c...
    21: ... green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
    43: [[bg:Висящи градини &#1085...
    53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]]
  2. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    9: ...'s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
    13: ...Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Ve...
    17: ...an strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morro do Castelo'' (Ca...
    21: ...en who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
    25: ...hy]] and imposed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the terri...
  3. Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
    1: ...#1083;а́на Евге́ньевн&...
  4. 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...
    53: ...1077;гда снега)'' on verses of Gennadi Aigi for chamber ...
    56: ...090;во в разгаре)'' for viola and orchestra ...
    60: *''Figures of Time (Фигурй вре&#1084...
  5. Luxor (8772 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Egypt.LuxorTemple.River.01.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The River Nile at...
    5: ...Karnak]], [[Luxor Temple]], and the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank of the [[Nile]], inc...
    11: ... political supremacy, artistic work and grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like t...
    13: ...nature, piety and serene thought; everything took place under the auspices of the first Trinity in the...
    15: ...|right|thumb|180px|Pharaonic statue in [[Luxor Temple]]]]
  6. California (63989 bytes)
    44: <!-- before modifying these state symbols please verify your changes against official Californ...
    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...
  7. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    1: ... the most famous and important aspects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the mo...
    6: ...ticles of space hardware, including a full-size replica of the [[Apollo 11]] [[Saturn V]] rocket, the ...
    13: ...anywhere else, such as to the [[Moon]] or [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. The first successful orbital launch ...
    15: ...d on [[May 17]], [[2004]] when [[Civilian Space eXploration Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a...
    19: ...er 23]], [[2004]] with a VSV-30, or [[Brazilian Exploration Vehicle]], launched on a [[sub-orbital]] m...
  8. Crusade (28507 bytes)
    2: ...ch as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Constantinople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cat...
    4: ...events, the word crusade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanin...
    7: ...ors always sought an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I...
    11: ...ried to marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religiou...
    15: ...lims toward Christian pilgrims; these rumors then played an important role in the development of the c...
  9. Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
    6: ...lley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials in the Valley o...
    13: ...ust have to the original [[architect]]s. Building plans were probably changed on account of this. The ...
    20: ...he valley also seems to have suffered an official plundering during the virtual civil war which starte...
    39: ...y Holt, 1981) &ndash; Covers the history of the exploration of the Valley in chronological order.
    40: ...icholas Reeves and Richard H. Wilkinson, ''The Complete Valley of the Kings'' (1996, Thames and Hudson...
  10. Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
    3: ...escendants, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]], played a major role in medieval history by creating ...
    5: ...est. When Malik Shah died in [[1092]] the empire split, as his brother and four sons quarrelled over t...
    34: ... [[Sultan Shah of Kerman|Sultan Shah]] [[1074]]-[[1075]]
    35: * [[Hussain Omar of Kerman|Hussain Omar]] [[1075]]-[[1084]]
  11. Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
    6: ...St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
    10: ...ian.JPG|thumb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
    11: ...]]-[[May 21]], [[1927]] in his single-engine [[airplane]] ''[[Spirit of St. Louis|The Spirit of St. Lo...
    13: Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the ''[[Orteig Prize]]'' of $25,00...
    22: ...9. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her...
  12. 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&#8217;s coronation which took place on [[January 5]], [[1066]] making him King [[H...
  13. Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
    7: ...te28/warstat0.htm#Mongol]. The exact number of people killed during and after his reign is not, and li...
    15: ... Borjigin (''&#1041;&#1086;&#1088;&#1078;&#1080;&#1075;&#1080;&#1085;''). His mother was named [[Hoelun]...
    25: ...y on the part of Senggum, Wang's former heir, who planned to assassinate Tem?Tem?earnt of Senggum's in...
    27: ...that the Mongols would eventually restrict the supply of goods.
    31: ... his people. He was looked on as a "man of the people," sharing his wealth and resources with his foll...
  14. 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 [[...
  15. Taiga (2576 bytes)
    1: ...Russian language|Russian]] &#1090;&#1072;&#1081;&#1075;&#1072;&#769;) is a [[biome]] characterized by it...
    3: ...]]s and [[rowan]]s. [[Bog]]s and their associated plants are also common in this zone (see [[muskeg]])...
    11: ...s acidic soil also comes when evergreen trees are planted in other biomes, such as [[temperate broadle...
  16. List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
    77: ...&#1103;&nbsp;&ndash; Adyge/&#1040;&#1076;&#1099;&#1075;&#1101;)
    79: ...#1083;&#1090;&#1072;&#1081;&#1076;&#1099;&#1085;&#1075;)
    85: | [[Dagestan]] (Dagestan/&#1044;&#1072;&#1075;&#1077;&#1089;&#1090;&#1072;&#1085;)
    87: ...sp;&ndash; Gialgiaj Mochk/&#1043;i&#1072;&#1083;&#1075;i&#1072;&#1081; &#1052;&#1086;&#1093;&#1082;)
    91: ...1072;&#1083;&#1100;&#1084; &#1058;&#1072;&#1085;&#1075;&#1095;)
  17. Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
    1: ...tency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]]...
    11: ... first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628&ndash;1694), [[...
    13: ...ed, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences tha...
    21: ...sy to identify unambiguously any given species of plant or animal. He proceeded further to introduce i...
    23: ...a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the two-part scientific name makes it po...
  18. Capricornus (6733 bytes)
    10: ... the [[Tropic of Capricorn]], a term which also applies to the line on earth where the sun is directly...
    14: ... equinoxes, the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in Capricorn, but the astrolo...
    16: The planet [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] was discovered in this constellati...
    19: ...as transformed into the [[cornucopia]] or horn of plenty. Some ancient sources claim that this derives...
    32: ... [[exaltation_(astrology)|exaltation]] of [[Mars_(planet)|Mars]]. Its polar opposite is Cancer. Each a...
  19. Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
    1: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: {{lang|ru|&#1048;&#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1100; &#1060;&#1105;&#1076;&#1086...
    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 ...
  20. Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
    31: | [[License plate]]: || 78, 98
    36: ...etrograd''' (&#1055;&#1077;&#1090;&#1088;&#1086;&#1075;&#1088;&#1072;&#769;&#1076;, [[1914]]&ndash;[[192...
    40: ...ntre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (&#1089;&#1...
    42: ...1085;&#1099;&#1081; &#1086;&#1082;&#1088;&#1091;&#1075;).
    60: ...pg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the [[Winter Palace]] at right]]

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