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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: ...1042;исящи градини на...
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]]) - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...e|Russian]]: Екатерина I Але
... - 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: ...1074;е́т) Петро́вна) ([[December 2...
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;евна Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[18... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Марина Иван...
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... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...1088;овна Терешко́ва}...
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: ...1074;янная трещотка)'' for...
53: ...Jetzt immer Schnee (Теперь всегда...
55: ...084; перед пробужден... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семё...
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...
76: ...1077;ское Управление...
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... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...080; Црна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abbreviate...
5: ...080; Црна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i C...
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. - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ia]]. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[T...
52: ...201 BC]]. The earliest ancestors of the Kyrgyz people, who are believed to be of [[Turkic]] descent, l...
54: ...ry draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, caused many Kyrgyz to flee to China.
58: ...d [[Kyrgyz alphabet]] was introduced, which was replaced by [[Latin script]] in [[1928]]. In [[1941]] ...
72: ...[[referendum]] asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office. He received 96.2% of the v... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: '''Ukraine''' ({{lang-ua|Україна}}, ''Ukraina'' {{IPA...
6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina'''</big>...
53: ...non" and "the Sudan") and partly because of its implication that Ukraine is merely a region rather tha...
55: ...o cut" (krayaty), indicating the land the Rus' people (or Ruthenians or Ukrainians) carved out for the...
60: ...erritory of Ukraine was populated by [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] nomads called [[Scythian]]s. The King... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named U ==
45: ...aga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
59: ...|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player
73: *[[Pope Urban II|Urban II, Pope]], (1088-1099) - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...p>th</sup> century]], killing many millions of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in u...
12: ...and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have more resistance to inf...
16: ...d HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) a...
18: ...sive to treatment. Thus, there is a tendency to apply the term to strains which cause [[epidemic]]s or...
21: ...o [[1919]] and is believed to have killed more people in total than [[World War I]]. Lesser flu pandem... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
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11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
19: ... strong, curved front claws for digging and a sharply-pointed snout. They are brown with short, parall...
22: ... [[centipede]]s and, more rarely, small birds), [[plant]]s and fungi (the desert truffle ''[[Kalaharit...
28: ...s, living in large underground networks with multiple entrances which they only leave during the day. ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
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>
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