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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 град...
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - 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]]) - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
9: ... Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in [[1089]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his da...
22: ...nerate''", and had his younger brother Theobald replace him as heir. Her son Stephen left Blois in [[1... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...80;на I Алексеевна) ([[April 15... - 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: ...1077;́та (Елисаве́т) Пе...
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... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1050;овалевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]&...
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: ...080;шь ты нас, Луиджи? ...
53: ...100; всегда снега)'' on verses of Genn...
56: ...#1055;разднество в раk... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно...
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: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
76: ...#1089;еленческое Упра...
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... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
51: ...n''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the ''T...
56: ...7th century]]. The [[Samanids|Samanid Empire]] supplanted the Arabs but was eventually superseded by T...
67: ...st immediately after independence, Tajikistan was plunged into a civil war that saw various factions, ...
78: ...regions, or [[province]]s (singular: [[viloyat]], plural: viloyatho) (capitals in parentheses)-
110: ...to the region - on the area. This has not been completely detrimental though, as Tajikistan was known ... - 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... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...pace including 99 crew-days of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI definition. Those who have...
7: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
9: ...nited States, the term "astronaut" is typically applied to the individual as soon as training begins, ...
13: ...31354;人, "space human") which refers to people who has actually been in space. Official English...
22: ...n publicly funded flights (generally Russian resupply flights to the ISS). The first space tourist was... - 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... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
5: ...Chinese]] is similar to the Roman abacus in principle, though has a different construction.
8: ...and it comes in various widths depending on the application. It usually has more than seven rods. Th...
10: ...anpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (mathematics)|division]], [[...
35: ... table versus Division Table. The school of Multiplication table prevailed in 1920s. The rods (numbe...
37: ...oroban''' (算盤) (apparently) more compliant to the decimal system than the Chinese Abacus... - 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... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognis...
8: ...eir governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...were known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'...
12: ...f Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the...
40: ...l freedom of the high seas, and violate the principle ''extra territorium jus dicenti impune non paret... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... or '''Russia''' (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'...
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...
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