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- 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 н...
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - 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... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1083;а́на Евге́ньевн&... - 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 врем... - 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]]]] - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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) – 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... - 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]] - 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... - 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... - 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 (''Боржигин''). 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... - 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 [[... - Taiga (2576 bytes)
1: ...Russian language|Russian]] тайга́) 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... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
77: ...я – Adyge/Адыгэ)
79: ...#1083;тайдынг)
85: | [[Dagestan]] (Dagestan/Дагестан)
87: ...sp;– Gialgiaj Mochk/Гiалгiай Мохк)
91: ...1072;льм Тангч) - 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]] (1628–1694), [[...
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... - 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... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: {{lang|ru|Игорь Фёдо...
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: ...etrograd''' (Петрогра́д, [[1914]]–[[192...
40: ...ntre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (с...
42: ...1085;ый округ).
60: ...pg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the [[Winter Palace]] at right]]
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