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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: [[bg:Висящи град... - 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: [[be:4 лістапада]] - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
9: ...it. Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along with his brother-in-law [[Robert Cur...
20: ...husband's death on this [[crusade of 1101|second crusading expedition]] in [[1102]], for their childre... - 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: ...lovna Kollontai''' (Алекса́ндра М...
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... - 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: ...guage|Russian]]: '''Лариса Семёно...
13: ...ecame a gymnastics trainer. She is a citizen of [[Russia]], and lives (as of [[2004]]) in her estate n... - 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: ...1082;а Казахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'...
26: | [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
70: ...[[13th century]], the territory of Kazakhstan was ruled by a series of [[nomad]]ic nations. Following ... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
16: | ''[[Surudi milli]]''
51: ...n''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the ''T...
56: ...istan since 4,000 BC. The land has been under the rule of various empires throughout history, mostly t...
58: In the [[19th century]], the [[Russian Empire]] began to expand, and spread into [[...
62: ...hmonov was re-elected by almost unanimous vote. [[Russia]]n troops continue to be stationed in souther... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
15: ...The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2 ...
49: ===Russian Aviation and Space Agency===
50: ...1086;'') is the government agency responsible for Russia's space science program and general aerospace...
53: ... programs. Launches are conducted in Kazakhstan, Russia, and on the [[Sea Launch]] platform.
56: ...t millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to construct. - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuvering unit...
7: ...icization of the [[Russia]]n word космонавт ''(kos...
9: ...me the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first ...
22: ...ew members, on publicly funded flights (generally Russian resupply flights to the ISS). The first spac...
28: ...ternational [[Soyuz programme|Soyuz]] missions of Russia. In [[1998]] the [[European Space Agency]] fo... - World War II (58065 bytes)
6: ...Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 Augu...
10: ...nfluence]], the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the [[Marshall Plan]] and the latter b...
42: ...nvasion, Operation Yellow, the Wehrmacht's Panzergruppe von Kleist bypassed the [[Maginot Line]] and s...
46: ...lantic (1940)|Battle of the Atlantic]]. In a long-running campaign, German [[U-Boat]]s attempted to de...
56: ...own on the outskirts of Moscow as a result of the Russian winter. - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: An '''abacus''' is a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires...
5: ... abacus in principle, though has a different construction.
18: ...is image is a 2004 photograph of the Mainz reconstruction of the
24: ...te Empire]] [[Roman abacus]] shown here in reconstruction contains seven long and seven shorter groove...
39: ...atics. When teaching the soroban, a song-like instruction is given by the tutor. The soroban is about ... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
72: ...ent]] else the oxide layer will break down and be ruptured, causing the capacitor to fail. In addition...
90: *Those that use a mechanical construction to change the distance between the plates, o...
95: * In process industry instruments,some types of pressure transmitter use a cap...
142: ...e|Ancient Greeks]] knew how to generate sparks by rubbing balls of [[amber]] on spindles. This is the...
166: ...much higher ESL than small ones. As a result, instrumentation electronics will frequently use multiple... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
10: ...etat|coups]] and then finally came to mean the disruptive parliamentary maneuver of talking without st...
46: ...fierce fighter in whom the men could place their trust, rather than a more traditional authority figur...
52: ...e clan were tenuous, and did little to limit the brutality of the pirate's way of life. Then again, to...
62: ...age increases, many of these ships have to lower cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic c...
82: ...e villages. They used the sea for their [[hit and run]] tactics - a safe place to retreat to if battle... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... or '''Russia''' (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'...
4: .... In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR...
6: ...sia. Consequently, after the breakup of the USSR, Russia again vied for an influential role on the wor...
7: {{Russia infobox}}
10: {{main|History of Russia}} - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
1: {{Politics of Russia}}
2: ...e Russian Republic in [[1978]]. [[Constitution of Russian Federation|A new constitution]], creating a ...
4: ...ed to represent fundamentally opposing visions of Russia's future. The executive was the center of ref...
8: ...lics in terms of territory and population. Ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government; t...
10: ...tionalities in the union republics, including the Russian Republic, to assert their rights. These poli...
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