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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: [[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Sem...
3: ...Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, t...
7: ...mething similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to the required height.
8: <!-- discussed on UKtv's History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. -->
13: ...ion to his Median wife, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]] - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: ...oe.jpg|thumb|Empress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophia]]
3: ...gning Empress from [[April 19]] to [[June 11]], [[1042]].
5: ...ho had become co-emperor in [[976]], and sole emperor in [[1025]]. He reigned for only three years bet...
7: ...tely remarried, even before his body was removed from the bath. Zoe's second husband was [[Michael IV]...
9: ...ell upon [[Constantine IX]] Monomachus (reigned [[1042]]-[[1055]]) who outlived her by four years. Zoe d... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tetarteron-Theodora-sb1838.jpg|thumb|300px|Theodora coin.]]
2: ...ruled as [[Byzantine emperor|Byzantine Empress]] from [[January 11]], [[1055]] to [[August 31]], [[105...
4: ...d the hand of the heir-presumptive, [[Romanus III|Romanus]], who was married instead to her sister [[Z...
6: ... new husband, [[Constantine IX]], on [[June 11]], 1042.
8: ...hrone between various noble families that lasted from [[1056]] till [[1081]]. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in...
5: ... also trained in [[parachuting]] at the local [[Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the f...
7: ...None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...e Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...ity]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
5: ...tersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more...
7: ...eorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [...
9: ...ed on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
11: ...calculus in the army, and when they ran short of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes in... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
7: ...founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyaches...
9: ...osed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quarte...
11: ...rt project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]...
15: ...n than the recomposition of spiritual integrity through the composition of music."
21: *''Vivente - Non Vivente'' for electronics (1970) - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] risi...
2: ...937]], in Asia and [[1 September]] [[1939]], in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority o...
6: ... of Germany on [[8 May]] [[1945]] ([[Victory in Europe Day|V-E]] and [[Victory Day|Victory]] Days), bu...
8: ...a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians...
10: ...Europe largely aligned as [[NATO]], and Eastern Europe largely as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ... traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first kn...
8: ... kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dy...
11: ...n philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...d south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, foll...
17: ...upa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ... fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...spels]]. The [[Gospel of John]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the...
6: ...er" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient na...
57: ...xcept formerly in a few states, all of which had dropped it by the [[1980s]].
61: ...hurches in western continental Europe used a late Roman method until the late [[8th century]] during t... - Strontium (11493 bytes)
5: ...an="2" align="center" | [[rubidium]] –'''strontium''' – [[yttrium]]
7: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Calcium|Ca]]<br>'''S...
15: | Strontium, Sr, 38
20: | [[periodic table group|Group]], [[periodic table period|Period]], [[periodic...
21: | [[group 2 element|2 (IIA)]], [[period 5 element|5]], [[... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ... traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first kn...
8: ... kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dy...
11: ...n philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...d south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, foll...
17: ...upa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
13: | rowspan=2 | [[Azerbaijan]]
20: | rowspan=7 | [[China]]
21: | rowspan=5 | 5 autonomous regions
32: | rowspan=2 | 2 special administrative regions *
38: | 1 autonomous province under international law - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
1: ...s a '''list of [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Emperors'''.
3: ...themselves continued to think of their empire as "Roman" for over a millennium.
6: *[[Constantine I (emperor)|Constantine I]] the Great (AD 272 - 337, ruled ...
8: ... - [[363]]) – son in-law of Constantine I, brother-in-law and first cousin of Constantius II, gr...
14: ...364]] - [[378]]) - brother of [[Western Roman Emperor]] [[Valentinian I]] - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
3: ... conducting the [[Columbia Symphony Orchestra]] through ''[[Petrushka]]''.]]
5: ...lso a writer. With the help of his prot�g� [[Robert Craft]], who helped with the composer's Engli...
10: ...became the pupil of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], probably the leading Russian composer of the time.
12: ...]). The ballets trace his stylistic development: from the ''L'oiseau de feu'', whose style draws large... - Wind (17871 bytes)
2: ...eating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet ([[Coriolis effect]]).
4: ... modified by the [[Coriolis effect]] in the extratropics.
6: ...ntially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.
8: ...lso shape landforms, via a variety of [[eolian]] processes.
18: ...ator flow at lower levels. Because of the Earth's rotation, this simple situation is vastly modified i... - Green alga (4059 bytes)
1: ...e-photo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Photo of Green and Brown Algae]]
8: *[[Chlorophyta]] <BR>
9: *[[Charophyta]] <BR>
13: ...sly included among the [[Plantae]] or with the [[Protist]]a. The green algae include unicellular and ...
15: ...een chloroplasts, which were presumably acquired from ingested green algae, in the latter case retaini...
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