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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.]] - 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]]. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...sia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1... - 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: ...nguage|Russian]] '''София Асгатов...
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." - 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... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
54: *Sir [[Anthony Caro]] (1924 - ) - 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. - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...rs of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail is a ...
3: ==Background==
4: ... Saints]] (LDS) established several communities throughout the United States between [[1830]] and [[18...
10: ...nted and felt the isolated [[Great Basin]] would provide the Saints with many advantages.
12: ...entral gathering point in the Great Basin. A new route on the north side of the [[Platte River|Platte... - 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... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rodentia]]}}
22: ...belief in the scientific community that evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA]] indicates that the [[Hystr...
24: ..., the animals are not [[pig]]s, nor do they come from [[Guinea]]. Although there are more than 20 diff...
27: ...em similar to rabbit in taste. They also play the role of evil-spirit collector in traditional healing...
29: ...ge head relative to the body, a stout neck, and a rounded rump with no tail of any consequence. - Guinea Pigs (18488 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rodentia]]}}
22: ...belief in the scientific community that evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA]] indicates that the [[Hystr...
24: ..., the animals are not [[pig]]s, nor do they come from [[Guinea]]. Although there are more than 20 diff...
27: ...em similar to rabbit in taste. They also play the role of evil-spirit collector in traditional healing...
29: ...ge head relative to the body, a stout neck, and a rounded rump with no tail of any consequence. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...h a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
5: Its culture played a crucial role in the [[Achaemenid]] [[Persian Empire]] that s...
8: ...change ''ha'' to ''e'' indicates this word was borrowed prehistorically). Additionally, the Haltamti w...
10: ...|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "Elam."
13: ...nguage|Sumerian]], and [[Iranian languages|Indo-European]] languages. Some scholars believe the langua... - 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). - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
4: ...ng="1" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; background:#e3e3e3;"
36: ...́д, [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петрог...
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: -->
48: ...st spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monumental and decorative sculptures. T... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: A '''monarchy''', (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''monos'', "one," a...
3: ...r to the people and institutions that make up the royal establishment, or to the [[realm]] in which th...
4: ...rical [[dynasty]] or bloodline. In some cases the royal family may claim to hold authority by virtue o...
6: ...of continuity and statehood. Many states have a strong convention against the monarch becoming involve...
9: ...or group of clans: kings of the Franks, Roman emperors. Even where law is simply the monarch's will, t... - Muscle (12774 bytes)
11: ...within structures such as the [[intestine]]s, [[throat]] and [[blood vessel]]s.
16: ...(which is red and carries [[oxygen]]), higher [[aerobic metabolism]] and [[mitochondria]] and hence mo...
17: * ''Fast twitch'' (type II) - more [[anaerobic metabolism]] (due to less myoglobin and mitoch...
18: ...them does). Thus, sedentary people have a higher proportion of type IIx fibers.
22: ...les]] are distributed throughout the muscles and provide feedback sensory information to the [[central... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
2: |+ '''[[Asteroid]]s discovered: 10'''
15: | [[1103 Sequoia]] || [[November 9]], [[1928]]
23: ...June 25]] [[1960]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[astronomer]] who emigrated to the [[USA]] in [[1931]].
26: ...e proposed that [[supernova]]e could create [[neutron star]]s.
28: ...ory]], to resolve stars in the center of the [[Andromeda galaxy]] for the first time, which led him to...
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