Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- 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.
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]]
57: [[uk:Сади Семирамід... - 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]]) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
6: ...gapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...72; I Алексеевна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1089;аве́т) Петро́вна)...
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... - 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: ...1077;вна Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (J... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1085;а Цвѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – ...
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...Евге́ньевна Сави... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1086;вна Терешко́ва}}; born...
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 Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...1085;а Ковалевская) ([[January 1...
7: ...lly completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s ...
15: ...istorically, and the friend was so impressed he implored Sophia's father to let her take private mathe...
17: ...] and is interred there in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]]. - 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: ...1103;нная трещотка)'' for six pe...
47: ...063;ет и нечет)'' for seven percussionists, including cy...
53: ...1089;егда снега)'' on verses of Gennadi Aigi for c... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1051;ариса Семёновна...
9: ..., she led the Soviet Union to take the first four places, thereby also securing a win in the team comp... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
9: ...br>(Qazaqstan Respūblīkasy)<br>Республик...
76: ...#1088;авление) in St. Petersburg. The competition for land and...
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... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
5: ...1072;вна заједница<br/>С&#...
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 ... - 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... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualties by country|die...
10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
24: ! align="left" | Place of birth:
30: ! align="left" | Place of death:
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...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).