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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.]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...r the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema b...
5: ...thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Braz...
9: ...area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 mi... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...sia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1057;офия Асгатовна Г...
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." - Luxor (8772 bytes)
7: ...hebes, Egypt|Thebes]], and has a population of approximately 150,000.
13: ...Thebes became the synonym of extravagant wealth, probably collected by the [[Pharaoh]]s of the New Kin...
16: ...e he intended to ascend to the throne of Thebes through such a marriage.
18: ...oved from Thebes to [[Byblos]], around [[1070s BC|1075 BCE]], and found strange that Zakar Baal, King of...
20: ... routes that was established by the Persian conquerors, who wished to link the parts of their vast emp... - California (63989 bytes)
52: Animal = [[Brown Bear|California grizzly bear]]; marine - [[Gray...
55: Fish = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
68: StateRock = [[Serpentine]] |
83: 2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, w...
93: ...s of Splandian), a 16th century novel, by [[Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo]], where there is an island p... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...als and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no long...
6: ...et, the original [[Apollo program|Apollo]] and [[Project Mercury|Mercury]] space capsule trainers, and...
8: ...le]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]]
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of spa... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...Muslims]], but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Co...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ... violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing [[Muslim]] attacks thu...
9: ...ts]] and some [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In ...
11: ...me personally engaged in a dramatic religious controversy. The result was an awakening of intense Chri... - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
2: ...ology#New Kingdom|New Kingdom]], the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties.
4: ... located on the west bank of the [[Nile]] across from [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] (modern [[Luxor]]). It ...
6: ...lley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials in the Valley o...
8: ...es and children of both the nobles and pharaohs. Around the time of [[Ramesses I]] the [[Valley of the...
10: ...that this was an attraction during [[Roman Empire|Roman]] times. - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...h century|14th centuries]]. The Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conqueri...
3: ... the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzantine Empire]...
5: ... was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[1156]] and died the following year...
7: ...ik Shah's death, the [[Crusade]]s prevented them from regaining their former empire. For a brief perio...
30: ...as a nation in southern Persia. It fell in 1187, probably conquered by [[Toghrül III|Toğr&u... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...ous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1927]].
6: ...es. In [[1922]] he quit a mechanical engineering program, joined a pilot and mechanist training with N...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...h the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later that same year.
13: ...mittee of the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] in the [[United States]]. On [[March 21]... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...]], now in [[France]], William succeeded to the throne of England by right of conquest by winning the ...
14: ...ntrol of Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at [[Caen]] in the [[Battle of Val-賭Dunes]] i...
16: ...ritime]]). He was 26, she was 22. Their marriage produced four sons and six daughters (see list below)...
18: ...d [[Robert, Count of Mortain]] played significant roles in his life.
23: ... if this story is true, however, Harold made the promise under duress and so may have felt free to bre... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
1: ...al hero in modern [[Mongolia]] for his historical role in giving a common [[identity]] to [[Mongols]] ...
7: ...ssive depopulation of much of Asia [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm#Mongol]. The exact nu...
9: ...tern Europe|Eastern]] [[Europe]], and [[Central Europe]] almost as far as [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]. Gen...
15: ... Borjigin (''Боржигин''). His mother was named [[Hoelun]...
19: ...den collar around his neck. He escaped with help from a sympathetic captor. His mother, Hoelun, taught... - 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... - Taiga (2576 bytes)
1: ...Russian language|Russian]] тайга́) is a [[biome]] characterized by it...
3: ...otably [[birch]]es, [[aspen]]s, [[willow]]s and [[rowan]]s. [[Bog]]s and their associated plants are a...
5: ...iberian Thrush]], [[White's Thrush]] and [[Dark-throated Thrush]] [[bird migration|migrate]] to this h...
7: ... [[Crossbill]], [[Golden Eagle]], [[Raven]] and [[Rough-legged Buzzard]].
11: ...are planted in other biomes, such as [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]], slowing the rate at wh... - 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 - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian...
5: ... known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classif...
7: In 1172 Ibn Rushd ([[Averroes]]), who was a judge (Qaadi) in [[Seville]], tra...
9: ... scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). G...
11: ...694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702). - Capricornus (6733 bytes)
2: ...a (constellation)|Aquila]], [[Sagittarius]], [[Microscopium]], [[Piscis Austrinus]] and [[Aquarius]].
8: ...s rebirth might have rendered astronomical and astrological observation of this region of space very i...
10: ...emisphere's winter solstice, is now called the [[Tropic of Capricorn]], a term which also applies to t...
12: ...to early Greek beliefs that [[sin]] accumulated throughout the year, causing the darkness to increase,...
14: ...astrological period called Capricorn begins at approximately the same time as the solstice. - 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... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
4: ...ng="1" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; background:#e3e3e3;"
36: ...etrograd''' (Петрогра́д, [[1914]]–[[192...
38: ...est city, Europe's fourth largest city, a major European cultural center and the most important Russia...
40: ...1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
42: ...1085;ый округ).
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