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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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... effectively exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very...
7: ...ment" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to improve the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet...
13: ...Joseph Stalin]] gained power, he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appoint...
15: ...the Stalin regime, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influence in government p... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...72;, Анна Андреевна Г...
3: ...stantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and me...
13: ..., Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - 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 Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...1085;а Губаидулина''', [[Tatar l...
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." - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...the name of the union of [[Serbia]] and [[Montenegro]], two former [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yug...
3: ...Belgrade]] in Serbia and [[Podgorica]] in Montenegro. Each of the two states may seek full independenc...
5: ...'</big><br/>State Union of<br> Serbia and Montenegro</big>
7: | style="background: #ffffff;" align=center colspan=2 |
10: ...n=center width=142px | [[Image:Serbia and montenegro flag large.png|120px|Flag]] - 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 RodrÃguez de Montalvo]], where there is an island p... - Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
1: ...est of San Clemente by [[Pope Gregory VII]] about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to [[Pope...
3: ...tion on the 12th of February 1111, but the Romans rose in revolt against the compact, and Henry retire...
5: ...to flee from Rome. Paschal returned after the emperor's withdrawal at the beginning of 1118, but died ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
4: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-colla...
7: | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image...
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[1...
40: ...and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}})
42: ...was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [[Ideology#Political_i... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...ducting plates (usually made of metal) stacked or rolled to form a compact device, but '''every''' mul...
7: ...e, the ''total'' charge in the device is always zero.
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively ch...
13: ...fference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ...acitors are usually expressed in microfarads (µF), nanofarads (nF) or picofarads (pF). - 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]... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves mos...
7: ...[Pope Pius VII|Pius VII]] was [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] with a temporary [[Papal...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
18: ...[[Moondog Coronation Ball]], the first [[rock and roll]] concert, in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
19: ...ville]], [[South Africa]]: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, k... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern [[Europe]] and northern [[Asia]]. With an area of 17,075...
6: ...age. This influence is notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...no-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and the [[Meshchera]].
15: ... prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...ed the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the we... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...stitution]], creating a strong presidency, was approved by referendum in December [[1993]].
4: ...egions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execut...
6: ==Historical background==
8: ...ted Soviet politics and government; they also controlled local administration.
10: ... republic legislatures with substantial blocs of pro-reform representatives. - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
13: ...ught the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[British India|British colonial rule]] to world...
15: ...He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth]...
18: ...e [[Jain]] influences of Gujarat, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living ...
23: ... 1875 by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] to further universal brotherhood. The Theosophists were devoted to the st...
25: ...from an Indian firm to a post in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]]. - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...ams (termed "[[Railroad_tie|sleeper]]s" or "[[railroad tie|tie]]s") of [[timber]], [[concrete]] or oth...
8: ...surfaces on which the [[wheel]]s of the train may roll with a minimum of [[friction]]. As an example, ...
9: ...cantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[road transport]].
11: ...eight in a given amount of time than a four-laned road.
15: ... and creative marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a result. - 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...
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