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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]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
5: ==Ascension to the throne==
7: ...nemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
10: ... articles that limited her power. However, these proved a minor inconvenience to her, and soon she est...
17: ...y [[police]], which she used to intimidate and terrorize those who opposed her and her policies. Altho... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...beth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709...
3: ...xorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Ras...
7: ...litical opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by he...
11: ... dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (... - 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: ...1072; Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old Style and...
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]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1080;на Ивановна Цвѣт...
5: ...lly began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccen...
8: ...]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's second wife, a highly literat...
10: ...rgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her...
12: ... by the sea at Nervi, near [[Genoa]]. Here, away from the rigid constraints of a bourgeois Muscovite l... - 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)
1: ...1080;я Асгатовна Губа...
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." - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...dals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
5: ...] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-around title.
7: ... vault, a silver medal in the uneven bars, and a bronze medal in the now discontinued team event with ...
9: ...beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11: ...ighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ... of the Ural River is located in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People...
3: ...w.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dy...
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23: | align=center colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|29... - 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>
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10: ...n=center width=142px | [[Image:Serbia and montenegro flag large.png|120px|Flag]] - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...he country's young [[democracy]] showed relative promise under the leadership of former President [[As...
3: <!-- WikiProject Countries Infobox; scroll down to edit content-->
37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]<...
52: ... the [[8th century|8th]] centuries. They spread across what is now the [[Tuva]] region of the [[Russia...
54: ... in [[1876]]. The Russian takeover instigated numerous revolts against [[tsar]]ist authority, and many... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
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13: | align=center colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" |[[image:LocationTajikistan.png]]
37: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[September 9]], [[19...
51: ...#1086;ҷикистон), formerly known as the ''Tajik Soviet So... - 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... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...onaut.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuv...
3: ...ings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into...
7: ...4;т ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" a...
9: ...bly becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
11: ... ''nautes'', "sailor"). While Europe has not yet produced manned spaceships, it has sent men and women... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...nment]]s, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academi...
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets w...
9: ...]] and would give up absolute rights for certain protections.
14: ... transformation of human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an urban re...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpora... - 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...
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