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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...cavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look...
15: ...tions. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-...
19: ...d. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt."
43: ...076;ини на Вавилон]]
57: ...072;міди в Вавілоні]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
21: ...pe. Since there was no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arri...
54: ...arra da Tijuca, JacarepaguᬠCampo Grande, Santa Cruz and Bangu. Barra da Tijuca remains an area of ac...
58: ...hich is currently experiencing a wave of new construction. High rise apartments and sprawling shopping...
63: ...equent. The favelas are troubled by widespread [[drug]] related crime and [[gang]] warfare and other p...
111: ...[bg:Рио де Жанейро]] - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...]] into the atmosphere, iron can be found in the crust only in combination with [[oxygen]] or [[sulfur...
11: ...ble form of iron is the [[body-centered cubic]] structure '''[[ferrite]]''' or '''α-iron''', a f...
13: ...rrite. Martensite has a very similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composi...
21: ...other hand [[sulfur]], [[nitrogen]], and [[phosphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly fou...
23: ...hen heat-treated to produce a desirable crystal structure, and often "cold worked" to produce the fina... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailov...
28: ...viet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revo...
49: ...74]] - [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak]], [[Russia|Russian]] military commander (d. [[1920]])
89: *[[1968]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]])
114: ...#1110;стапада]] - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
3: ...[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...w western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Peter Bestuzhev...
10: ...and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards...
17: ...her maids, dressed as clowns, in a specially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold a... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ...25]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year...
5: ...s a servant to minister Gluck of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured a...
7: ...d in childhood except for Anna and [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta]].
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]] - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...ne the Great''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on...
5: ...y 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's supporter...
11: ...ion, granting the government greater control over rural areas because of the peasant revolt. This proc...
13: ...eat instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free E...
17: ... creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps Great Britain, t... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...izaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...sburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans i...
7: ...ghter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha Skavronskaya]], was born at [[Kolomens...
13: ...I]], who was rumoured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the mem...
15: ...nus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled herself with a handsome youn... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...#1050;оллонта́й — born '''Domontovich''', ...
5: At the time of the split in the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] into the [[...
7: ...Kollontai joined the Bolsheviks and returned to [[Russia]], after a period of exile for her earlier po... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...na Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
9: ...khmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several p...
13: ... as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...[[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...ctory schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...hly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polis...
12: ... the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to conti...
14: ...ing within Russian poetry: the flowering of the [[Russian Symbolist movement]], and this movement was ... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...03;}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[as... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...решко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[S...
7: ...]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further fe... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...[[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl...
3: ...rname to [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Korvin]]-Krukovsky.
9: Kovalevskaya had a crush on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] and practiced his favo...
11: ...es instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it se...
13: She adored her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fo... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...ullina''') (born [[October 24]], [[1931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious...
5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for it...
7: ...mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Vic...
25: *''Rumore e silenzio'' for percussion and harpsichord (...
44: *''Alleluja'' for mixed chorus, boy soprano, organ and large orchestra (1990) - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...#1051;атынина'''; born [[December 27]], [[1934]] in [[Kherson]...
13: ...ecame a gymnastics trainer. She is a citizen of [[Russia]], and lives (as of [[2004]]) in her estate n... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...082;а</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Russia]]n origin, with a characteristic [[triangle|t...
3: ==Structure and technique==
14: The most common [[solo (music)|solo]] instrument is the prima, tuned E-E-A (the two lower [[st...
16: ...colo, prima, and secunda balalaikas are ideally strung with gut (or, today, usually [[nylon]]) [[strin...
18: ... larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] to do... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and th...
3: ...n from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
9: ...#1050;азахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
26: | [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
70: ...[[13th century]], the territory of Kazakhstan was ruled by a series of [[nomad]]ic nations. Following ... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...1062;рна Гора, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abbreviated as "S...
5: ...1062;рна Гора<br/>Državna zajednica<br/>Srbija i Crna Gor...
65: ... promised the end of the name Yugoslavia. On [[February 4]], [[2003]], the [[Parliament of Serbia and ...
68: ''Main article: [[Internal structure of Serbia and Montenegro]]''
114: ...in June 2001 raised $1.3 billion for economic restructuring. An agreement rescheduling the country's $... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
13: ... = [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Russian language|Russian]] |
52: ...d across what is now the [[Tuva]] region of the [[Russia]]n Federation, remaining in that area until t...
54: ...916]] rebellion in Central Asia, triggered by the Russian imposition of the military draft on the Kyrg...
56: ...a-Kirghiz was used until the mid-[[1920s]] by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who w...
64: ...) In February [[1991]], the name of the capital, Frunze, was changed back to its pre-revolutionary nam...
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