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Proletariat (3268 bytes)
1: The '''proletariat''' (from [[Latin]] ''proles'', offspring) is a term used...
17: ... and argued that although the government of the [[Soviet Union]] claimed to be [[Marxist]], the distinct c...
United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ... and/or some international diplomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For mo...
5: The term "united nations" was coined by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during [[World War II]], to ...
20: ...nited Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the [[...
24: ... — [[Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Soviet Union]], [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United Sta...
26: ... land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], and designed by a...
Trombone (15819 bytes)
6: The word ''trombone'' derives from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''tromba'' —...
12: ...]] in English. This was not a distinct instrument from the trombone, but rather a different name used ...
14: ...ugh the size of a trombone choir can vary greatly from five or six to 20 or more members).
18: ...que music|Baroque]]) literature is often borrowed from other instruments, usually [[cello]] or [[basso...
26: ...s almost completely extended. Extending the slide from one position to the next lowers the pitch by on...
Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gu...
28: ...particularly with the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed...
30: ...l, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russi...
Eurasia (4541 bytes)
2: [[Image:Eurasia.jpg|right|thumb|African-Eurasian aspect of [[the Blue Marble|Earth]]]...
3: ...organizations of or affairs concerning the [[post-Soviet states]].
9: ...graphically separated from each other as they are from Europe.
11: ...d into [[West Eurasia]] (often including [[North Africa]]) and [[East Eurasia]], and they are further ...
13: ... most Asian migrants traditionally tended to come from the Pacific-rim countries, thus the contrasting...
Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...graphic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
3: '''Africa''' is the [[world]]'s second-largest [[contine...
6: ...onAfrica.png|thumb|World map showing location of Africa]]
8: ...ontinent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding...
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from:
Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...the third largest continent after [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. The population of Europe is roughly 705,500...
13: ...which means "sunrise" and is the land to the east from a [[Mesopotamian]] perspective.
18: ...g large colonial empires with vast holdings in [[Africa]], [[the Americas]], and [[Asia]].
20: ...to power and set out on a conquest, forming a new French empire that soon collapsed. After these conqu...
22: ...Economic Consequences|aftermath of World War I]]. From the end of [[World War II]] through the end of ...
Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...defined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geograp...
6: ...sia and Europe: the demarcation between Asia and Africa is the [[isthmus]] of [[Suez Canal|Suez]]. The...
12: ...o the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) i...
24: ...rderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and Oceania.
43: * Former [[Soviet]] states in the [[Caucasus]] region.
United States (58223 bytes)
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]] [[July 4]], [[1776]] [...
58: ...on of the Americas]], [[thirteen colonies]] split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the...
60: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though...
62: ...e U.S. acquired a number of overseas possessions, from [[Cuba]] to the [[Philippines]], though it gave...
66: ...two "[[superpower]]s". With the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], the U.S. emerged as the world's leading ...
Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
1: ...cess to these basic necessities by prioritizing infrastructure development, education, housing develop...
4: ...ed much of the underdeveloped country's limited infrastructure and disrupted normal patterns of econom...
6: ... the IMF to US$6.5 billion, after adding proceeds from [[opium]] products.
11: ...as did the disruption to transportation resulting from ongoing conflict.
13: ...rated further due to damage and neglect resulting from war and the absence of an effective central gov...
Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...aintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1936]], when...
40: ...gdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopi...
59: ...at powers of his time. It was at this time that [[Frumentius]] introduced [[Christianity]] into the co...
61: ...r]]), basing their claims on their direct descent from [[Solomon]] and the queen of [[Sheba]].
67: ... the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian co...
Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: ...motto = ''Je Maintiendrai'' ([[French language|French]]: "I will maintain")|
14: ...es = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisian language|Frisian]] 1 |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]] [[May 23]], [[1568]] [[January ...
64: After gaining formal independence from the [[Spanish Empire]] under [[Philip IV of Spa...
68: ...xembourg seceded because its laws prevented women from becoming Head of State. Luxembourg turned to th...
Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
34: | From [[Soviet Union]]  [[October 27]], [[1991]] &n...
48: ...tan''', once known as the ''[[Turkmen SSR|Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]]'' is a country in [[Central ...
52: ...has been populated since ancient times, as armies from one empire to another decamped on their way to ...
60: ...epublics of the Soviet Union|republics]] of the [[Soviet Union]] in [[1924]]. At this time the modern bord...
62: ...ndence. It has kept its [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] leader, [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] ...
Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...an is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
3: ...ww.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/d...
49: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]''' - Declared -
50: | From [[Soviet Union]], [[December 16]], [[1991]]
70: ...an since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth century AD]] through t...
Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...cially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
11: ...#932;ΟΣ ''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
29: ...]'''  - Declared  - Recognised || From the [[Ottoman Empire]] [[25 March]] [[1821]...
42: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || [[Hymn to Freedom]]
52: ...especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a ...
Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...h an eastern coast on the [[Caspian Sea]]. It has frontiers with [[Russia]] in the north, [[Georgia (c...
39: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''  – Date
40: | From [[Soviet Union]]  [[30 August]] [[1991]]
54: ...an." The most common theory is that it is derived from "Atropatan." [[Atropat]] was the [[satrap]] at ...
71: ...ies]]. It also underwent a brief period of feudal fragmentation in the mid-18th to early 19th centurie...
People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib...
Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...[[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Lux...
13: ...[[German language|German]]: Unity and Justice and Freedom)
15: ...tschen]] 3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
51: ...[[Romany language|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as...
61: ...[[prince-elector]]s of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Pa...
Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ... capital is [[Bishkek]]. Once a republic of the [[Soviet Union]], Kyrgyzstan has been independent since 19...
35: sovereignty_type = [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)|Independence]] |
37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]] [[31 August]] [[1991]] [[December...
52: ...led along the [[Yenisey River]], where they lived from the [[6th century|6th]] until the [[8th century...
56: ...lic]]. On [[December 5]], [[1936]], the [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]] (SSR) was established as a f...
Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [[France]] vs. French Republic.
63: ...tained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius]], a barb...
67: ...hs]] (from the 14th century), and [[Hungarians]] (from the late Middle Ages).
69: A huge population loss resulted from the invasion of the [[Mongols]] in 1241 and the...
71: ...especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in the 18th century, Slovakia's influen...
Romania (19812 bytes)
57: ...g a derivate of the word "[[Ancient Rome|Roman]]" from [[Latin]]). Also, "''Ţara Rom⮥ască'...
62: ...er Emperor [[Trajan]] in two campaigns stretching from [[101]] to [[106]], and the core of their kingd...
70: ...der direct military and economic control of the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] until 1958.
72: ...equired the CDR to resign en masse after 200 days from a mixed coalition government (some members had ...
164: ...tructural reform programme, but reform remained a frustrating stop-and-go process until [[2000]], when...
Hungary (18459 bytes)
57: ...lemagne]]. The decline of the kingdom of the East Franks, after the death of Charlemagne, was favourab...
61: ...inus of Hungary|Matthias Corvinus]] ruled Hungary from 1458 to 1490. He strengthened Hungary and its g...
63: ...oday's Hungary by the end of the [[17th century]] from the Ottoman Empire.
65: ...n absolutism resulted in the unsuccessful popular freedom fight led by a Transylvanian nobleman, [[Fer...
67: ...apse following [[World War I]]. Hungary separated from Austria on [[October 31]], [[1918]].
Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
34: | from [[Pakistan]] [[March 26]] [[1971]]
47: | '''[[National Fruit]]''' || [[Jackfruit]]
65: ...], and there are even claims of social structures from around [[1000 BC]]. Early civilizations had Bud...
67: ...ntrolled the region by the late [[18th century]], from which the [[United Kingdom|British]] extended [...
69: ...ment of Pakistan changed the name of the province from [[East Bengal (province)|East Bengal]] to [[Eas...
Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
36: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''  – Date
37: | From [[Soviet Union]]  [[September 9]], [[1991]]
51: ...90;он), formerly known as the ''Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic'', is a country in [[Central A...
60: ...ik SSR]], and it remained relatively behind other Soviet Republics in living conditions, education and ind...
69: ...m to have been flawed, arrousing many accusations from opposition parties that President Emomali Rakhm...
Vietnam (18265 bytes)
6: ...[[People's Republic of China]] and the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] while the South was support...
8: ...r Powers Resolution]] prevented the United States from defending South Vietnam. [[Fall of Saigon|Saigo...
10: ...public of Vietnam."'' Refugees continued fleeing from Vietnam through the rest of the decade, and int...
12: ...tnam invaded [[Cambodia]] and removed [[Pol Pot]] from power and into hiding, thereby decisively stabi...
17: ...ut in practice it receives most of its directives from the party. Although there has been some effort ...
Cuba (25106 bytes)
10: ...ll Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was adopted in [[1976]].
12: ...ge Nuclear Missiles were installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and aimed at the USA. This led to an Intern...
14: ... to the U.S., mostly aboard vessels that departed from the U.S. Eventually the U.S. stopped the flow ...
16: ...eople, our country could not have survived the confrontation with imperialism".
18: ...espite being denied access to [[development aid]] from the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] because Cuba is ...
Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...[[Gulf of Bothnia]] to the west. Finland has land frontiers with [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and [[Russia]]...
33: | style="vertical-align: top;" | From [[Russia]] [[6 December]] [[1917]] [[22...
51: ..., [[chisel]]s from [[Lake Onega]], and spearheads from North Scandinavia. Currently it is considered p...
57: ...e and in Russian propaganda promising "liberation from Swedish oppression".
63: ...and industrial workers who despite [[universal suffrage]] in [[1906]] had found themselves without pol...
Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]] [[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em...
Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]...
Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]] [[1919]]
55: ...Afghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''st&#257...
64: ...ans. The Mohammadzay furnished the Saddozay kings frequently with top counsellors, who served occasion...
70: ... years later in [[1989]]. For more details, see [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].
72: ...an were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in ...
Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...ocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[Wo...
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
41: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] [[June 30]], [[1960]] |
42: currency = [[Congolese franc]] |
50: ...on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison Programme b...
Ukraine (22193 bytes)
3: ...independent once more following the [[fall of the Soviet Union]] in [[1991]].
37: ... Union|Independence]]'''   Date || From [[Soviet Union]] [[August 24]] [[1991]]
55: ...r the name. Most translate it as "borderland" or "frontier" (compare [[Krajna]], [[Krajina]] - in Poli...
60: ... the speakers of the Proto-Iranian language moved from Ukraine to the southeast but many also remained...
64: ...us' was founded by [[Varangian]]s, Scandinavians, from present-day [[Sweden]]. The Varangians later be...
Angola (15614 bytes)
1: '''Angola''' is a country in southwestern [[Africa]] bordering [[Namibia]], [[Congo-Kinshasa]], a...
38: established_events = From [[Portugal]] |
48: ...on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison Programme b...
61: ...n overseas province, also called Portuguese West Africa. When Portugal refused a decolonization proces...
63: * the [[National Liberation Front of Angola]] (''Frente Nacional de Liberta磯 de Angola'', FNLA), wi...
Mammoth (4333 bytes)
16: ...mmoth lived in temperate and northern climes: the frozen remains of woolly mammoths have been found in...
18: ...ave been proposals to [[cloning|clone]] freshly defrosted mammoths in order to revive the species.
20: In addition to occasional frozen mammoths, large amounts of mammoth [[ivory]] ...
24: ...er, not enough genetic material has been found in frozen mammoths for this to be attempted [http://rbc...
28: ...of [[Siberia]]. The pilot of a [[World War II]] [[Soviet Union]] courier plane reported seeing a herd of f...
Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
5: ...er Nile floods in the summer every year as waters from [[Ethiopia]] flow down the river. These floods ...
13: ...Cold War]] struggle for influence in Africa the [[Soviet Union]] stepped in 1958 and possibly a third of t...
15: ...d capacity in 1976. The reservoir raised concerns from archaeologists and a rescue operation was begun...
18: ...sser, though it is struggling due to its distance from any significant markets.
23: ... coastline barriers, due to lack of new sediments from floods, will eventually cause loss of the brack...
Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: Its name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name ...
54: Much of the state was purchased from [[France]] as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], alth...
59: ...e [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] people, a mixed French and Native American culture, were a presence ...
61: ...ndia]]ns, [[Middle East]]erners, and the former [[Soviet bloc]] all being well-represented. Some [[China|...
63: ...with the early Scandinavian immigrants. Families frequently own or share [[cabin]]s on central and no...
List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of ''[[Asterix]]'' fame
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter
52: *[[Frederick D. Underwood|Underwood, Frederick D.]], president of the [[Erie Railroad]] [...
106: *[[Dmitri Ustinov|Ustinov, Dmitri]], Soviet defense minister
110: ...[Maurice Utrillo|Utrillo, Maurice]], (1883-1955), French painter
List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]].
History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...an American spirit and culture which was distinct from that of its European founders.
17: ...his period the United States won its independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] during the [[A...
22: ...sippi River waterway, removed the French presence from the western border of the United States, and pr...
24: ...The United States, dependent on European revenues from the export of agricultural goods, tried to expo...
26: ...r]], Britain sought to impose a stranglehold over French overseas trade ties. Thus, in retaliation aga...
Solar system (21174 bytes)
26: **[[Planetesimal]]s, from which the planets were originally formed, are s...
30: **[[Meteoroid]]s are asteroids that range in size from roughly boulder sized to particles as small as ...
34: ... belt and [[scattered disk object]]s in the outer fringes.
36: ...Sedna]], with a highly elliptical orbit extending from about 76 to 928 AU, does not obviously fit in e...
37: ... Some of the dust is likely [[interstellar dust]] from outside the Solar System.
Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor...
List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
398: *[[List of fruits]]
Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...ce race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
3: ==From fiction to fact==
6: ...n see and touch, a [[Gemini]] space capsule and [[Soviet]] [[rocket]]s. The [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|...
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
13: ...lared [[Space Race]] between the two superpowers. Soviet dog [[Laika]] became the first animal in orbit on...
Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ... are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationalit...
7: ...74;т ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" ...
11: ... men and women into space in cooperation with the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States...
13: ... The term was coined in May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih from [[Malaysia]], who used it first in [[newsgroup]...
20: ...nd [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]]. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km ...
Flag (13245 bytes)
3: A '''flag''' is a piece of [[cloth]] flown from a pole or mast, usually intended for signaling ...
5: The study of flags is known as [[vexillology]], from the Latin ''vexillum'' meaning flag or [[banner...
13: From the time of [[Christopher Columbus]] onwards, i...
15: ...them, and by [[World War I]] these were withdrawn from the battlefields, and have been used only at ce...
25: * The [[Tricolore|national flag]] of [[France]], also called the [[Tricolore]], which inspi...
Albania (24647 bytes)
25: | [[Alfred Moisiu|Alfred Moisiu]], ''President''
43: | From the [[Ottoman Empire]] [[November 28]], [[19...
66: ...highlands". Alternatively, "Albania" may derive from the ancient [[Proto-Indo-European|Indo-European...
68: ...e-names ending in ''-esh'' that appears to derive from the latin ''-enisis'' or ''-esis'', between the...
72: ...://foreignaffairs.tripod.com/armillotta/albania01_frosina.html Arb벥sh띮
Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible...
World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]]
World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
10: ...] and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union. Western Europe largely aligned as [[NATO]]...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...scale war from [[1947]] until the collapse of the Soviet Union in [[1991]]. The term was popularized by th...
7: ...]. The [[Korean War]]; the [[Vietnam War]]; the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan|Afghan War]]; and CIA-ass...
9: ...ravel in the late 1980s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia lost the superpower status ...
12: ...ertain that a global nuclear war would not result from smaller regional wars, which heightened the lev...
14: ...ty controlled by [[West Germany]] and the Allies) from [[East Berlin]] and the territory of [[East Ger...
Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]] [[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front (Viet Cong)]] [[Image:Viet cong fl...
31: ...ory of South Korea]] [[Military history of the Soviet Union]] [[Military history of Thailand]] [[...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
23: ...er Olympics]] in [[Moscow]] to protest [[1979]] [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]]
44: ...oma Prieta earthquake]] kills 63 in greater [[San Francisco Bay Area]]
History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ...concerning the [[United States]] troops returning from [[World War I]], "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down O...
27: ... sale or use of a substance was considered so far from the accepted powers of the U.S. Federal Governm...
42: ...ase in sustained demand. Fixed exchange rates and free convertibility gave way to a compromise—t...
46: ...st); and other signposts of economic health—freight carloads, industrial production, wholesale p...
48: ...ld economic situation. [[Germany]] was suffering from hyperinflation of currency, and many of the All...
History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ntil June [[1944]], more than two years after the Soviets had demanded it. In the meantime, the USSR suffe...
11: ...President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (right)]]
13: ...s an agreement on the postwar status quo in which Soviet Union hegemony reigned over about one third and t...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St...
History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
11: ..." ad, which featured a little girl picking petals from a daisy in a field, counting the petals, which ...
15: ...vil rights]] divided conservative southern whites from the rest of the party (see [[Dixiecrat]]).
20: ...e proposed, they continued to have strong support from both of the United States' major political part...
27: ...Viet Minh]] (led by [[Ho Chi Minh]]) defeated the French colonial army in [[1954]], the colony was gra...
29: ...]) was formed as a [[guerrilla]] movement drawing from the South Vietnamese peasantry and working clas...
History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...facilitated demographic shifts to the "frontiers" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast...
8: ...economic base as municipalities lost the revenues from the enterprises that had departed. In the natio...
14: ...ss African Americans have grown more marginalized from the mainstream of U.S. society than their count...
17: ===The assault on U.S./Soviet ''D鴥nte''===
18: ..., the hostage crisis in [[Iran]] in [[1979]], the Soviet invasion of [[Afghanistan]], the growth of intern...
History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
10: ...and [[Latvia]], declaring independence from the [[Soviet Union]]. On [[December 26]], [[1991]] the USSR wa...
12: ...ared the emergence of "a new world order... freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit o...
14: ...d the future [[Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement]] (CAFTA) were developed based ...
16: ...ier emphasis on [[human rights]], pressuring once-friendly dictatorships (such as [[Indonesia]] and [[...
29: ...d Saudi Arabia. By the time Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait in late February, Iraq had lost an estim...
Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: '''Venus''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mytholo...
3: ..., it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] i...
7: ...me astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives incl...
14: ...]'s, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irra...
16: ...k into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|...
Mars (27704 bytes)
4: '''Mars''' is the fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is name...
6: ...#x2642; (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the...
15: ...en summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrove...
18: ...tic field would have helped to protect the planet from [[cosmic radiation]]. Other explanations have a...
22: Amongst the findings from the Opportunity rover is the presence of [[hema...
January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Ed...
20: * [[1945]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed ...
21: ...[Auschwitz concentration camp]] as [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces close in.
22: ...disappears in [[Hungary]] while in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] custody.
25: ...Robbery]] - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...bstraction]] and [[logic|logical]] [[reasoning]], from [[counting]], [[calculation]], [[measurement]],...
8: ...[Day|days]], [[Season|seasons]], [[Year|years]]. From counting, naturally followed [[arithmetic]] (e....
15: ...s from [[string theory]]. The mathematics arising from this immediately has relevance for the subject ...
23: ...ians wanted their theorems to follow mechanically from a few simple incontrovertible truths and for th...
28: ... That is, mathematical knowledge exists separate from the physical world.
World (6524 bytes)
10: ...whole wide world"), which it is actually the most frequent sense in [[philosophy]].
16: ...ide the community of believers. ''The world'' is frequently cited alongside ''the [[flesh]]'' and ''t...
34: ...wo major blocs, scarcely using such terms as the "free world" as compared to the "communist bloc". Th...
38: ...h as [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[South Africa]].
40: ...ence, e.g. [[Warsaw Pact]] countries. Besides the Soviet Union proper, most of [[Eastern Europe]] was run ...
Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely...
Cambodia (32076 bytes)
9: ...ges = [[Khmer language|Khmer]]; [[French language|French]] and [[English language|English]] often unde...
33: established_dates = From [[France]] [[1949]] [[1953]] |
49: ...) and the [[Tonle Sap Lake|Tonle Sap]] (i.e. "the fresh water river"), an important source of fish.
51: ...[[Cambodian People's Party]] is the ruling party. From 2005 on, a coalition that took one year to nego...
57:
Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]] to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics.
Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. It was in use ce...
8: ...ng the horizontal axis to spin all the beads away from the horizontal beam at the center.
35: ...bead from the upper deck and (later) another bead from lower deck in each column of the Chinese abacu...
43: ...for native Japanese were all made with all wooden frame. In this way the "thickness" of the soroban (f...
55: ...ssian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book. The wire...
List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
201: [[Context-free grammar]] --
272: [[Fragmentation]] --
273: [[Free On-line Dictionary of Computing]] --
274: [[Free Software Foundation]] --
275: [[Free software movement]] --
History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti...
High jump (8613 bytes)
16: Period = from:1920 till:2004
26: from:1922 till:end color:Basis
57: ...r the event for the next four years. The elegant Soviet jumper radically sped up his approach run, took t...
59: ...niversity of Maryland, flocked to Russia to learn from Brumel and his coaches. However it would be a ...
61: ...ricans Dwight Stones and his rival, 5'8" (1.73 m) Franklin Jacobs, who cleared 2.32 m (7'7-1/2"), an a...
List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
33: ...ssary to accomplish his work. [[Abram Joffe]], a Soviet physicist who knew Einstein, in an obituary of Ei...
Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|250px|Photography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart....
7: The scale and scope of airline companies ranges from those with a single airplane carrying mail or c...
11: ...mpanies. This occurs as regulators permit greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. Th...
15: ...ion provided more competition and greater pricing freedom resulted in lower fares and sometimes dramat...
19: ... airlines form new business combinations, ranging from loose, limited bilateral partnerships to long-t...
Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
13: ...,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) below sea level [htt...
15: * The point farthest from the Earth's centre is the summit of [[Mount Chi...
16: ...]] (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the centre of the Earth).<!--- Other contenders...
19: ... at a straight-line distance of 2648 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline.
20: ...s larger in surface than the entire former [[USSR|Soviet Union]].
Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
74: ...ted Czechoslovakia fell within the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[sphere of influence]]. In [[1968]], an invasi...
75: In [[1989]], Czechoslovakia regained its "freedom" through a peaceful "[[Velvet Revolution]]"....
149: ...([[Czech language|Czech]]: ''Odra'') river. Water from the landlocked Czech Republic flows to three di...
156: ...st states, the Czech Republic has been recovering from recession since mid-1999. Growth in [[2000]]-[[...
246: *''Much of the material in these articles comes from the [[CIA World Factbook]] 2000 and the 2003 U....
Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ...
Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...tives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came unde...
27: ... America out of [[World War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football...
36: ...73]]) he served as Minority Leader, Ford won many friends in the House due to his fair leadership and ...
63: ...rican personnel from [[Vietnam]], in '[[Operation Frequent Wind]]'. On [[29 April]] and the morning of...
Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
21: ... Accords]], and the [[SALT II]] treaty with the [[Soviet Union]]. He failed to reform the tax system (due ...
26: ...a [[hospital]]. Young Carter was a gifted student from an early age who always had a fondness for read...
30: ...itute of Technology]], and received a B.S. degree from the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[1946]]...
32: ...t which left him with a permanently bent finger. From a young age, Carter showed a deep commitment to...
34: ...; James Earl III, born in [[1950]]; and Donnel Jeffrey, born in [[1952]]), and gave birth to his daugh...
John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
22: ...arty (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last...
24: ...h most of his [[civil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]...
30: ...e history course. He graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from Harvard with a degree in international affairs ...
45: ...s, but had a mixed voting record, often diverging from President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the rest of t...
47: ...ged marriage; he interviewed several of Kennedy's friends who reported the marriage as fact, and addit...
Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: .... President to have ever [[resignation|resigned]] from office. His resignation came after a loss of p...
22: ...tive evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing.
24: ...s of two of his brothers, one from cancer and one from a childhood accident.
28: ...nity]] that competed with the already established Franklin Society. Nixon then went on to become the ...
30: ...[[United States Navy]]. He could have been exempt from military service because of his Quaker religion...
Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ... [[1909]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
26: ...ss]]es.{{fn|1}} His mother was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she...
30: ...te)|Georgia]]. He then served with the Tank Corps from [[1918]] to [[1922]] at [[Camp Meade]], [[Maryl...
34: ...[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Secretary of War, from [[1929]] to [[1933]]. He then served as chief m...
36: ...] he had never held an active command and was far from being considered as a potential commander of ma...
Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
9: | preceded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
32: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]</td></tr>
51: ...s]], succeeding to the office upon the death of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
58: ...the bulk of his formative years. After graduating from high school in [[1901]], Truman worked at a ser...
61: ...eye and 20/400 in the left eye. Before heading to France, Harry was sent for training at [[Fort Sill]]...
Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18: ...f reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR ...
20: ...nal organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...nd his failure to advance [[civil rights]] for [[African Americans]]. Some conservatives such as [[Ron...
26: ...matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin.
Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ... Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat. From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
13: ==Move to France==
14: ...reto]], Minas Gerais, for the city [[Paris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an...
23: ... [[francs]] for flying his dirigible ''Number 6'' from the [[Parc Saint Cloud]] to the [[Eiffel Tower]...
25: ...he world. He won several more prizes and became a friend to millionaires and royalty. In [[1901]] he w...
Helicopter (20080 bytes)
1: ...wing aircraft. The word helicopter is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''helix'' (s...
23: ...tail rotor is sufficient to cancel out the torque fromt the main rotor, the helicopter will not rotate...
29: ... amount of power required to prevent a helicopter from spinning is significant. A tail rotor can use u...
42: ...the RPM is too high, damage to the main rotor hub from excessive forces could result. In general, RPM ...
44: ... The cyclic is usually controlled by the stick in front of the pilot.
Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond...
March 18 (10594 bytes)
7: *[[1229]] - [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] declares himself ...
14: *[[1871]] - President of the [[France|French]] government [[Thiers]] orders evacuation of ...
18: ...ng a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
19: ...Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to France. Famine kills millions of Russians.
25: ... [[Alps]] and agree to form an alliance against [[France]] and the [[United Kingdom]].
March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a v...
24: ...6]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]].
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[Eurovision Song Conte...
27: ...h; The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]], [[London]]
30: ...] is found guilty of the armed robbery of a [[San Francisco, California]] bank.
March 21 (10586 bytes)
8: ...t between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] forces near the ruins of [[Nicopolis]] in [...
9: ...onic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civil law]].
16: ... [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]] of [[France]]
18: *[[1952]] - [[Alan Freed]] presents the [[Moondog Coronation Ball]], th...
19: ...lice open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]])
Russia (28007 bytes)
4: ... [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
6: ...notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ... The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimila...
17: ...ded the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the w...
23: ...unctional Christian state on the Eastern European frontier, allowing it to claim succession to the leg...
Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
2: ...ly planned economy]] that was a hallmark of the [[Soviet Union]], and then its replacement by an economy o...
5: ''Main article: [[Economic history of the Soviet Union]]''
7: ...me, Soviet-era management practices, a decaying infrastructure, and inefficient supply systems hinder ...
9: ...g to directives from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]], which controlled all asp...
11: ...an and annual plans were the chief mechanisms the Soviet government used to translate economic policies in...
Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...cal system to follow nearly seventy-five years of Soviet rule. For instance, leading figures in the legisl...
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...rritory and population. Ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government; they also controlled loc...
10: ...an institutions in the RSFSR. Certain policies of Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] (in office 1985-91) ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
Sweden (27111 bytes)
3: ...ttles with its neighbouring countries [[Denmark]] from the 12th century – 1710, and [[Norway]] i...
19: ...[[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "Thou Ancient, Thou Free") |
67: ...]] originated in a so-called "[[back-formation]]" from the plural form [[Swedes]] ([[Old English]] ''S...
69: ...sia down to southern Europe. The [[Kievan Rus']], from which Russia takes its name, traces its heritag...
73: ...untry today known as Finland was a part of Sweden from [[1362]] until [[1809]].
Estonia (13391 bytes)
37: ...- Recognised  - Lost [[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]  - Declared &nb...
38: ...ebruary]] [[1920]] [[June]] [[1940]] From [[Soviet Union]] ([[16 November]] [[1988]]) [[20 Aug...
66: ...s reinstated in 1992, after the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]. It included a parliament called ''Riigik...
68: ... [[Singing Revolution]] and the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]]. August 20 is now a national holiday in E...
118: ...ompanies is a continuing process. With assistance from the European Union, the [[World Bank]] and the ...
Geography of Estonia (3012 bytes)
5: ...va]] and [[Petseri]] regions on Estonia's eastern frontier, which still remain contested bilaterally.
48: '''Natural hazards:''' flooding occurs frequently in the spring
50: ... with [[petroleum]] products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases; Estonia has more than 1,400 natur...
Economy of Estonia (6977 bytes)
10: ...s and greater prosperity than other regions under Soviet rule.
12: ...for foreign investment are hallmarks of Estonia's free-market-based economy. Estonia also has made exc...
14: ...nking sector exist. Foreigners are not restricted from buying bank shares or acquiring majority holdin...
18: ...capability, a high-capacity grain elevator, chill/frozen storage, and brand-new oil tanker off-loading...
25: ...rvative fiscal and monetary policies. Estonia has free trade regimes with [[European Union]] (which it...
Demographics of Estonia (4738 bytes)
1: ... principal ancestors of the Estonians had arrived from the east.
3: ...y places strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16. The first book in ...
5: ... originate in 13th century chronicles. During the Soviet era, the [[Russia]]n language was imposed for off...
7: ...ortion of ethnic Estonians in Estonia to increase from 61% to 68% in 2003.
Latvia (12041 bytes)
25: | [[Vaira Vike-Freiberga|Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]]
36: ...ognised  - Lost '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''  - Declared &n...
37: ...st]] [[1920]] [[17 June]] [[1940]] From [[Soviet Union]] [[4 May]] [[1990]] [[21 August]] [[...
57: ...ence of the [[Germany|German]] [[Sword Brethren]] from the [[13th century]] onward. However, in the [[...
61: ...ntry on [[17 June]] [[1940]] in accordance to the Soviet-German agreement ([[Ribbentrop-Molotov pact]]) of...
History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory.
History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id...
Tiger (11674 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:LA1_082A.jpg|noframe|250px|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)...
15: ...eir [[penis]]es, believed to be [[aphrodisiac]]s. From the destruction of its habitat, to the poaching...
23: The ground of the coat may be any color from yellow to orange-red, with white areas on the c...
25: ... is [[camouflage]], serving to hide these animals from their prey (few large animals have color vision...
29: ...gers overpower their prey from any angle, usually from ambush, and bite the neck, often breaking the p...
Long jump (2354 bytes)
1: ...d) event in which athletes attempt to land as far from their take-off points as possible.
3: ... layer of [[plasticine]] is placed immediately in front of the board to detect this occurrence) the ju...
11: ...is held by [[Galina Chistyakova]] of the former [[Soviet Union]] who leapt 7.52 meters in [[Saint Petersbu...
New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ams implemented between 1933-37 under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] with the goal of relief, rec...
7: ...nses to the critical situation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
11: ... Milton. [http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php ''Interview with John Hawkins''. Right ...
13: ...y, big city machines, labor unions, European and African-American minorities (now called "ethnics"), s...
18: ... 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce to 25%, while manufacturing...
Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
1: ...Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] over the Soviet deployment of [[nuclear weapon|nuclear missiles]]...
5: ... threatened cities in the western sections of the Soviet Union. The Jupiter missiles were regarded by [[P...
7: ...USSR and would provide little warning of a launch from Cuba.
9: ...in Cuba, nor any plans to place any, and that the Soviets were not interested in starting an international...
11: ===Soviet strategy===
Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
7: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
22: ...f the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|Ameri...
46: ...Lincoln]] in [[1860]] ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats ...
48: ... in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in governm...
50: ...l politics – albeit with strong competition from the Democrats, especially during the 1880s. Wit...
List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
4: ...s are listed only if they have an anthem separate from or in addition to that of their mother country.
21: ...]''||''[[Let_us_all_unite_and_celebrate_together|African Union Anthem]]
69: |[[Belize]]||[[Land of the Free]]
75: |''[[Biafra]]''||''[[Land of the Rising Sun (national anthem...
111: |[[Central African Republic]]||[[La Renaissance]] (The Rebirth)
The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
3: ...ledBanner2.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Percy Moran drew Francis Scott Key reaching out towards the flag in [...
4: ...d [[sheet music]]. Copies such as these were sold from a catalog of Thomas Carr's Carr Music Store in ...
6: ...s]]. The [[lyrics]] were written in [[1814]] by [[Francis Scott Key]], a 35-year-old [[lawyer]] and am...
9: ...ater Upper Marlboro, Maryland|Upper Marlboro]], a friend of Key's who had been captured in [[Washingto...
15: ... popular [[England|English]] drinking song dating from around [[1800]], written by [[John Stafford Smi...
Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...n senses and knowledge, passed by oral tradition, from navigator to apprentice.
20: ...[1976]], successfully navigated the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
39: ... accurate land-based fixes even hundreds of miles from shore. These were made obsolete by satellite na...
43: ...measuring their [[bearing (navigation)|bearings]] from the ship. These [[lines of position]] can be pl...
55: ...7 navigational stars at any time of day or night. From a single sight, a time within a second and an e...
History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
3: ...re thought to have been non Indo-Europeans, apart from the original Mitanni leadership. However, Kurds...
7: ...of history of tribes in overwhelming numbers who, from whatever quarter they may have sprung, belonged...
11: ...iended, if we may judge from tradition as well as from the remains still existing in the country, by t...
17: ... waste since the passage of [[Timur]], with Kurds from the Hakkiari and Bohtan districts.
19: ...e Kurds, owing to the remoteness of their country from the capital and the decline of Turkey, had grea...
Kurdistan (8785 bytes)
9: ...urdish-inhabited areas of the Middle East and the Soviet Union in 1986.]]
11: ...e globe and their land covers an area as big as [[France]]. The [[Kurdistan Province]] in [[Iran]] and...
16: ...bility (one of the major reasons of conflicts in Africa and the Middle East).
36: ... crushed by government forces when [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] protective forces were withdrawn. In the consti...
Libya (12985 bytes)
1: Libya is a country in [[North Africa]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], locate...
3: ...sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
53: Qadhafi rejected both [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Communism]] and Western [[capitalism]] and cl...
59: ...[[terrorism]]. All Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and the United States officia...
67: ...man [[La Belle (discotheque)|La Belle]] nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen on [[April 5]], which ...
Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ... location and extent of Scythia varied over time, from the [[Altai]] region where [[Mongolia]], [[Chin...
3: ...s as ''Ishkuzai'', who are reported as pouring in from the north some time around 700 BC, settling in ...
7: ...Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''skeud''', ...
9: ...riors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan burial near [[Kerch]] ([[Her...
21: ...f scholars conjecture that they migrated westward from [[Central Asia]] between [[800 BC]] and [[600 B...
Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ...n because changing the name separated the country from its past. It also caused some Westerners to con...
4: ...ek name for Iran, ''Persis''. This in turn comes from a province in the south of Iran, called ''[[Far...
11: ...e Persians comes from an [[Assyria]]n inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the ''Parsu'' (Parsua...
13: ...ate]]. The Persians gradually conquered territory from the native kingdom of [[Elam]], including the i...
19: ...of the empire. He moved the administration center from Persia itself to [[Susa]], near Babylon and clo...
Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
3: ...tion barrier|barrier]] separating [[West Berlin]] from [[East Berlin]] and the surrounding territory o...
7: ...|Mitte]], and the eastern districts of Berlin - [[Friedrichshain]], [[K?ick]], [[Lichtenberg]], , [[Pa...
9: ...the [[Berlin Airlift]] by the Western Allies. The Soviets lifted the ineffective blockade the next year.
11: ... Germany in preference to either West Berlin or [[Frankfurt]].
13: ...ast Germany's economy was being subsidized by the Soviet government.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (17212 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosenbergs.jpg|framed|The Rosenbergs]]
3: ...rges remains controversial, though decades later, Soviet communications decrypted by the [[VENONA project]...
7: ...[May 12]], [[1918]] in [[New York]]. He graduated from the [[City College of New York]] with a degree ...
11: ...ecause they were sympathetic to communism (or the Soviet Union's role in the War) and did not feel that th...
13: ...esisted efforts to share nuclear secrets, but the Soviet Union was able to produce its own atomic weapons ...
History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...
Christmas (35108 bytes)
2: ...is birth fulfilled Jewish prophecies of a messiah from the house of David. Early Christians focused mo...
10: ...ethlehem of Judea, the home of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the proph...
12: ...ey presented Jesus with treasures of "[[gold]], [[frankincense]], and [[myrrh]]". While staying the n...
14: ...here they could have gotten their gifts of "gold, frankincense, and myrrh". Astronomers and historian...
19: ...orian calendar|Gregorian]]) date of [[January 7]] from [[1900]] to [[2099]]. The [[Armenian Church]] p...
Moon (37975 bytes)
6: ...ll.jpg|250px|none|The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth]]
7: The Moon as seen from Earth
190: ...', the terms ''selene/seleno'' and ''cynthion'' (from the [[Lunar deity|Lunar deities]] [[Selene]] an...
192: The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 [[kilometre]]s...
194: ... and orbiting [[space probe]]s, starting with the Soviet [[Luna 1]] in [[1959]].
Bohrium (3577 bytes)
43: ...nts|synthesized]] in [[1976]] by a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] team led by Y. Oganessian at the Joint Institut...
46: ...earch) at Darmstadt were also able to confirm the Soviet team's results and produce bohrium, this time the...
48: ...to honor the Danish physicist [[Niels Bohr]]. The Soviets had suggested this name be given to element 105 ...
50: ...ment naming controversy]] as to what the elements from 101 to 109 were to be called; thus [[IUPAC]] ad...
Dubnium (4200 bytes)
47: ...entists later tried to confirm the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] findings using more sophisticated methods but w...
Nobelium (6700 bytes)
53: ...onds). Their work was confirmed by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] researchers in [[Dubna]].
64: ...isotope]]s of nobelium range in [[atomic weight]] from 249.088 [[atomic mass unit|u]] (No-249) to 262....
Plutonium (24623 bytes)
176: ...converting several nuclear power plants in the US from [[enriched uranium]] fuel to [[MOX fuel]] as a ...
178: ...re conducted without any kind of informed consent from the subjects of the experiment. The episode is ...
181: .../sup>Pu remain from the birth of the solar system from waste of supernovae, because its half-life (80 ...
188: ...cts). The Pu-239 can then be chemically separated from the rest of the material to give high-purity Pu...
190: ...m production, it is necessary to remove the U-238 frequently, before significant amounts of Pu-239 can...
Rutherfordium (3808 bytes)
49: ...they could not reproduce the earlier synthesis by Soviet scientists.
51: ...h Kurchatov]] ([[1903]]-[[1960]]), former Head of Soviet Nuclear Research.
52: ...onor Ernest Rutherford, a noted nuclear physicist from [[New Zealand]].
Scandium (10820 bytes)
105: ...ition element]], scandium occurs in rare minerals from [[Scandinavia]] and it is sometimes classified ...
117: ...enite]] and [[gadolinite]]. He named it Scandium, from the [[Latin]] ''Scandia'' meaning "Scandinavia"...
124: ...ources of this element (which is never found as a free metal).
126: ...fter [[tungsten]] is extracted from [[Zinnwald wolframite]].
130: ...ndium is from military stockpiles from the former Soviet Union, which
Seaborgium (4376 bytes)
35: In June [[1974]], a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] team led by G. N. Flerov at the [[Joint Institu...
Titanium (20884 bytes)
118: ... point]] of this element makes it useful as a [[refractory metal]]. Titanium is as strong as steel, bu...
125: ... titanium dioxide are excellent reflectors of [[infrared radiation]] and are therefore used extensivel...
143: ...amed it ''menachite''. At around the same time, [[Franz Joseph Muller]] also produced a similar substa...
145: The metal has always been difficult to extract from its various ores. Pure metallic titanium (99.9%...
147: ...ties of titanium when a European company set up a front for the US foreign intelligence agencies to pu...
Uranium (27752 bytes)
165: *beta (tetragonal) stable from 667.7 °C to 774.8 °C
166: *gamma (body-centered cubic) from 774.8 °C to melting point - this is the mos...
170: ...up>233U isotope is also fissile and is made from 232[[thorium]] by [[neutron]] bombar...
184: ...natural uranium, because the [[mineral]] material from which they are made is typically high in uraniu...
191: ... was found to be [[radioactivity|radioactive]] by French physicist [[Henri Becquerel]] in [[1896]], wh...
Muslim (12217 bytes)
13: * Qiyas - the process of analogical reasoning from a known injunction (nass) to a new injunction.
18: ...adith (singular ''Hadith'') - narrations reported from the Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatimeh Zahr...
41: * Refraining from eating, drinking and having sex from dawn to dusk in the month of Ramadan (Sawm).
42: ...an be strenuous. Also, one has to obtain a permit from the Saudi government which is granted based on ...
76: ...des of existence, and then spread more slowly to Africa and Indonesia. This golden age is usually reg...
Democracy (24363 bytes)
4: ...μοκρατ�mp;alpha; from δημο&sigmaf; meaning "the ...
10: ...|slaves]], and foreigners being excluded from the franchise. Only an estimated 16% of the total popula...
14: ...various forms of non-democratic rule. [http://www.freedomhouse.org/reports/century.html]
24: *voting which is not truly free and fair (e.g., through intimidation of those v...
27: ...e Soviet Union|CPSU]] before its [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)|collapse]] in [[1991]], [[Iraq]...
Election (15836 bytes)
1: ...ment]]. Elections are held in many other settings from [[club]]s and societies to [[business]].
6: ...ent into governmental authority is the holding of free and fair elections.
8: ...age:Presidential-election-word-wall-animation.gif|frame|left| Animation provided by [http://classroomc...
10: ...ected by [[citizenship|citizens]] who enjoy broad freedom to criticize government, to publish their cr...
12: ...rom those beneficial biases that naturally result from an [[electorate]] that is equally well informed...
Reindeer (6508 bytes)
26: An unusual feature of the reindeer is that it has front teeth only on its bottom jaw; there are [[mola...
33: Males usually split apart from the group and become solitary, while the remain...
43: ... been drastically reduced since the fall of the [[Soviet Union]]. The fur and meat is sold, which is an im...
48: ...''vaya''. The name ''Caribou'' is thought to come from a [[Mi'kmaq]] word that means "one that paws (t...
55: ...a continuous distribution in the tundra [[biome]] from west to east across the Eurasian continent, inc...
Siberian Husky (8100 bytes)
66: ...re normally rather healthy dogs, living typically from eleven to fifteen years of age. Health issues i...
69: ...ore enduring than the 100 120 pound (45 to 54 kg) freighting dogs then in general use, they immediatel...
71: ...un to Nome]] which delivered [[diphtheria]] serum from Nenana by dogsled after the city was stricken b...
73: ... [[1930]] the last Siberians were exported as the Soviet government closed the borders of [[Siberia]] to e...
79: Apart from dogsled racing, they are very popular for recre...
Humpback Whale (17123 bytes)
18: ...]] (leaping out of the water), its unusually long front fins, and its complex [[whale song]]. The Hump...
24: ...n each side of the mouth. [[Ventral]] grooves run from the lower jaw to the [[umbilicus]] about halfwa...
52: ... (music)|note]]s that vary in [[amplitude]] and [[frequency]] in consistent patterns over a period of ...
55: ... all the major [[ocean]]s, in a wide band running from about 60° S to 65° N [[latitude]]. It i...
57: ... the other large whales. The population has grown from a low point of 20,000 at the [[1966]] moratoriu...
Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...pic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening cere...
3: ...e|French]] nobleman, [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19t...
15: From that moment on, the Games slowly became more im...
25: ...t few centuries, similar events were organized in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale an...
27: ...0–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, a...
Henry A. Wallace (8151 bytes)
1: [[Image:Henry A. Wallace.jpg|frame|Henry Agard Wallace]]
5: ...m [[1910]] to [[1924]] and edited the publication from 1924 to [[1929]]. He experimented with breedin...
7: ...Wallace]], had served as Secretary of Agriculture from [[1921]] to [[1925]].) Wallace had been a [[lib...
10: ...t on the Democratic Party ticket with President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. His inauguration took place...
14: ... the phrase "Century of the Common Man", to the [[Free World Association]] in [[New York City]]. This ...
Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
6: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la...
Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...
History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars (9742 bytes)
12: Napoleon III's defeat brought an end to the French military protection for Pius IX and on Septem...
16: ==From Unification to The First World War (1870-1914)=...
18: ...ed unchanged, even if the kings usually abstained from abusing their extremely large powers (for examp...
24: ...iver [[Battle of the Piave River|Piave]], not far from Venice. After another year of trench warfare, a...
30: ...n City]]. He was initially in friendly terms with France and Britain, but the situation changed in [[1...
Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ...y complex and has changed under [[Czarist]] and [[Soviet]] rules and under the relgious leadership of the...
9: ...came an offshooot version of the [[mosaic]] and[[ fresco]] traditions. Icon paintings in Russia are u...
14: ...nstructivism]], and [[futurism]]. Notable artists from this era include [[El Lissitzky]], [[Kazimir Ma...
16: ===Soviet Art===
17: {{Main|Soviet Art}}
Beluga Whales (10188 bytes)
15: ... to simply as the '''Beluga''' - the word derives from the [[Russian language|Russian]] ''beloye'' mea...
20: ...is the now-extinct ''[[Denebola brachycephala]]'' from the late [[Miocene]] period. A single fossil ha...
36: ...r shallow inlets. These summer sites are detached from one another and a mother will usually return to...
59: ...United States Navy]] and the navy of the former [[Soviet Union]] have used beluga in anti-mining operation...
Gray Whales (7433 bytes)
23: ...w waters in the lagoons there protect the newborn from [[shark]]s. After several weeks, the return tri...
27: ...[benthic]] [[crustacean]]s which it eats sideways from the sea floor. It is classified as a [[baleen w...
30: ...hale845.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Gray Whale viewed from above]]
35: ...d again. Gray Whales have been granted protection from commercial hunting by the International Whaling...
37: ...ere being established in the region. Although the Soviet government denied these charges as recently as 19...
List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
137: *[[John Fries' Rebellion]] (1799)
153: *[[Franklin County War]] (Idaho, 1866–1872)
175: *[[Francis Marion]] (1780–1782)
204: *[[State of Franklin]] (~1784–~1790)
207: *[[Free City of Tri-Insula]] (1861)
Snow Leopards (2890 bytes)
17: ...ghing up to 75 kilograms, it can be distinguished from other similar species by its proportionately lo...
19: ...cluding domestic livestock. They also ambush prey from above when possible. Their diet consists of [[I...
26: ...o Soviet mountaineers who summited all 5 of the [[Soviet Union]]'s 7000m peaks.
Tigers (12435 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:LA1_082A.jpg|noframe|250px|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)...
15: ...eir [[penis]]es, believed to be [[aphrodisiac]]s. From the destruction of its habitat, to the poaching...
23: The ground of the coat may be any colour from yellow to orange-red, with white areas on the c...
25: ... is [[camouflage]], serving to hide these animals from their prey (few large animals have colour visio...
29: ...gers overpower their prey from any angle, usually from ambush, and bite the neck, often breaking the p...
Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
29: ...ificantly expanding it and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt water sea.
51: ...on of [[Sahara]]. The shift by the Sahara Desert from a habitable region to a barren desert.
76: ... Major migration of Central Saharans into [[West Africa]] possibly due to [[climate change]] starting ...
102: * The [[Cushites]] drive the original inhabitants from [[Ethiopia]], and establish trade relations wit...
136: ...f the Caliphate under [[Al-Walid I]], who reigned from [[705]] - [[715]] ]]
United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
6: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
21: ...f the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|Ameri...
45: ...Lincoln]] in [[1860]] ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats ...
47: ... in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in governm...
49: ...l politics – albeit with strong competition from the Democrats, especially during the 1880s. Wit...
George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
25: ...00. He played baseball and rugby union during his freshman and senior years. He received a Bachelor of...
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Texas [[Air National...
32: ...duty from 1972 to 1973, and that he was suspended from flying after he failed to take a required physi...
38: ...In taped recordings of a conversation with an old friend, author Doug Wead, Bush said: “I wouldn...
45: ...ver funds from his education trust fund and money from other investors. The [[1979 energy crisis]] hur...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18: ...f reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR ...
20: ...nal organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...nd his failure to advance [[civil rights]] for [[African Americans]]. Some conservatives such as [[Ron...
26: ...matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin.
Holocaust (53541 bytes)
6: ...estimates by historians of the exact number range from five million to over six million. Other groups ...
10: The word ''holocaust'' originally derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''[[holokaust...
16: The term has been frequently used to reference nuclear war, and in the...
20: ...azi Holocaust which taken together distinguish it from other [[genocides in history]].
24: ...dge, and renowned [[Psychiatry|psychiatrist]] [[Alfred Hoche]], the work was key to the formulation of...
Maya hieroglyphics (3466 bytes)
3: ...|right|thumb|An inscription in Maya heiroglyphics from the site of [[Naranjo]], relating to the reign ...
7: .... Most surviving texts in Maya hieroglyphics are from pottery or monuments in sites that were abandon...
13: ...ient writing system from the [[Olmec]]s (Schele & Freidel, 1990; Soustelle, 1984).
16: ... for symbols whose general meaning was understood from context began to be developed. Prominent older ...
Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
41: ...any songs and TV drama series presented Christmas from a lover's point of view, for example '[[Last Ch...
48: ...banese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of th...
49: ...open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mount...
54: ...ël]]". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like "[[Joyeux Noel|Joyeux Noël]]" or Englis...
62: ...rch Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has lodged a formal compl...
Pat Nixon (3962 bytes)
1: [[Image:Pat nixon.jpg|right|frame|Pat Nixon]]
2: ...d Nixon]] and [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1969-1974.
5: .... Patrick]]'s babe in the morn" when he came home from the mines before dawn.
12: ...age:Pat and Richard Nixon exit US plane.jpg|right|frame|Pat and Richard Nixon on the political trail t...
13: ...nd there she met Richard Nixon, who had come home from law school at Duke University to establish a pr...
Space Shuttle program (41074 bytes)
4: ...capacity to recover satellites and other payloads from orbit and return them to Earth, this capacity h...
16: ...e [[X-20 Dyna-Soar]]. In several instances groups from both worked together to investigate the state o...
27: ...k to adjust for the launching point rotating away from it while in polar orbit — in a 90 minute ...
35: ...e [[1970s]] this was high enough that the payback from the development had to happen very quickly or t...
43: ...ced in an external tank instead of internal tanks from the previous designs. This allowed a larger pay...
Students for a Democratic Society (3884 bytes)
5: ...League for Industrial Democracy]] which descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society which was...
7: ...n Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Mich...
9: == From 1965 to 1969 ==
11: ... SDS [[factions]] had a reputation for violent confrontation, including the [[Progressive Labor Party]...
13: ...tions such as the [[Free Speech Movement|Berkeley Free Speech Movement]], a coalition of student group...
February 22 (10772 bytes)
9: * [[1495]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's thron...
18: * [[1879]] - In [[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of 5 and 1...
24: ... United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
25: ...]: [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas Mac...
32: * [[1979]] - Independence of [[Saint Lucia]] from the [[United Kingdom]].
North Pole (13759 bytes)
6: ...kwise as seen from above the north pole). Another frequently used definition uses the right-hand rule ...
10: ...ar shape and [[gravity|gravitational]] influences from nearby planets and moons.
14: ...o's orbit (best defined as the point most removed from the plane formed by the north-south and near-fa...
23: ...'' is defined as the point in the Arctic farthest from any coastline, and is at {{coor dm|84|03|N|174|...
27: ...International Astronomical Union]] have defined a framework called the [[International Terrestrial Ref...
Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
40: ...#1094;а). 
56: ...ikov]] Palace on the Neva Embankment, constructed from designs by Domenico Trezini in 1710–1716....
62: ...d by [[Count Orlov]] and built in 1768–1785 from various sorts of [[marble]] to a Neoclassical d...
72: ...reat]] and other [[tsar|Russian emperor]]s. Apart from these four principal cathedrals, which operate ...
82: ...nd early 20th-century temples are all constructed from [[Russian Revival]] or [[Byzantine architecture...
Jet engine (22370 bytes)
1: ...ine (left of photo) prevents debris - or people - from being pulled into the engine by the huge volume...
2: ...ir and combustion products) in one direction and, from [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s [[Newton's_laws_of_mo...
4: The engine draws [[air]] in at the front and compresses it. The air is combined with [[...
8: ...ssing into the ignition chamber prevents backflow from it and thus makes possible the continuous burni...
15: ...f the maximum performance which could be obtained from it; the limit was essentially one of [[propelle...
Karl Marx (38076 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kmarx.jpg|frame|right|Karl Marx]]
2: ...s of class struggle, summed up in the famous line from the introduction to the ''[[The Communist Manif...
7: ... in [[Germany]]). His father Herschel, descending from a long line of [[rabbi]]s, was a lawyer and his...
13:
18: ...nsorship was in place, and non-Lutherans suffered from religious discrimination.
Cult of personality (7246 bytes)
2: ...p|leader]]. The term was coined by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] soon after the dea...
7: ..., had a quote from [[Mao Zedong]], and all quotes from Mao appeared highlighted in boldface or in red.
15: ...is excuse to justify the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]]'s massive campaign of ren...
16: [[Image:Stalincult.jpg|framed|left|[[Josef Stalin]] is often credited with ...
20: ... public places, but convention or law forbid them from converting this respect into real political pow...
December 9 (7837 bytes)
12: ...P. B. S. Pinchback]] becomes the first serving [[African American]] governor of a U.S. state
14: ...nded the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], ''[[La Fronde]]''.
15: ...arity|Law separating church and state]] passed in France
18: ...my]] attacks [[Italy|Italian]] forces in [[North Africa]]
22: ...ted States]] [[nuclear weapon]] secrets for the [[Soviet Union]]
List of aircraft (2955 bytes)
28: ** [[List of military aircraft of France|France]]
29:
37: ...of aircraft of the South African Air Force|South Africa]]
41: ** [[List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS|USSR and CIS]] - ([[USSR milita...
U.S. presidential election, 1988 (11192 bytes)
2: ...an's popularity while Dukakis's campaign suffered from several miscues; the result was the third lopsi...
10: ...Bruce Babbitt|Bruce E. Babbitt]], former governor from [[Arizona]]
11: * [[Joe Biden|Joseph R. Biden Jr.]], U.S. senator from [[Delaware]]
13: ...Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt]], U.S. representative from [[Missouri]]
14: * [[Al Gore|Albert A. Gore Jr.]], U.S. senator from [[Tennessee]]

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