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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: ...1089;ящи градини на Вk...
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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very few "[[Old ...
5: At the time of the split in the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party...
7: ... new marriage, education, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized lat...
13: ...] gained power, he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appointed Soviet Amba...
15: ... nor executed by the Stalin regime, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influenc... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...72;, Анна Андреевна Г... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...#1080;́на Влади́миров&...
5: ... cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]]...
7: ...йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further female flights it took 19 years un... - 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...
45: ...1086;венная деревянн...
53: ...1077;рь всегда снега)'' on...
55: ...1076; пробуждением'' for three 1... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
5: ...1074;на заједница<br/>Ср&#...
23: | [[Serbian language|Serbian]] (implicitly)<sup>1</sup>
85: ... extremely varied, with much of Serbia comprising plains and low hills (except in the more mountainous...
87: ...each with populations of about 140,000-180,000 people.
114: ...tion of Serbia]] (DOS) coalition government has implemented stabilization measures and embarked on an ... - 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... - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
1: ...est of San Clemente by [[Pope Gregory VII]] about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to [[Pope...
3: ...in the Council of [[Guastalla]] (October 1106) simply renewed the prohibition of investiture. In the s...
5: ...ificate trouble began anew in England; Paschal complaining ([[1115]]) that councils were held and bish... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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54: ...ivisions in preference to the static theories exemplified by the [[Maginot Line]].
56: ...ble exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a major role in de Gaulle's career.
63: ... were in favor of continuing the war. He took the plane back to [[Bordeaux]] (provisory seat of the Fr... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...aced. Intentional capacitors have thin conducting plates (usually made of metal) stacked or rolled to ...
7: ...t the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge, the ''tot...
9: ...tor, the dielectric is in direct contact with the plates.)]]
13: ...] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ...a potential difference of one [[volt]] across the plates. Since the farad is a very large unit, value... - 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...
46: ===Seljuk Rulers in [[Syria]] [[1076]]-[[1117]]===
55: * Aziz ibn [[Abaaq al-Khwarazmi]] [[1076]]-[[1079]] - 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... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
11: ...ley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Livingstone]].
23: ...1965]] - [[Martin Luther King Jr]] leads 3,200 people on the start of the 3rd and finally successful [...
29: *[[1985]] - [[Canada|Canadian]] [[paraplegic]] [[athlete]] and [[humanitarian]] [[Rick Han...
30: ...ted]]'' reports allegations that tie [[baseball]] player [[Pete Rose]] to [[baseball]] [[gambling]].
71: *[[1961]] - [[Lothar Matth䵳]], [[soccer]] player - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...1081;ская Федера́ция}...
13: ...through the eighth century. They in turn were displaced by a group of Scandinavians, the [[Varangian...
15: ...be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[1...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
10: ...es, and Russian branches of trade unions, for example. As the titular nationalities of the other fourt...
12: ...ecutive office, the presidency, following the example of Gorbachev, who had created such an office for...
16: ...by Yeltsin, combined with the irresolution of the plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three da...
18: ...ed full independence, and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's ...
22: ... executive powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms. In November 1991, he a... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]...
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
15: ...lai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] belie...
22: ...ENTION!! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling ...
23: ... London's vegetarian restaurants. Rather than simply go along with his mother's wishes, he read about... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...ay roll with a minimum of [[friction]]. As an example, a typical rail car can hold up to 125 tons of f...
13: ...transport in many countries. In [[Asia]], for example, many millions use trains as regular transport i...
15: ...t levels of rail transport have in some times and places been reduced in order to save money (see [[Be...
22: ...uld be viewed from a system-wide perspective when planning, constructing and maintaining it. Some loco...
28: ...] of the system. To be electrified, a means of supplying electricity to the train is needed. This can ... - 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 [[...
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