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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...er, there are doubts as to whether they ever physically existed.
5: ... Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accru...
7: ...ools of thought think that through the ages the location may have been confused with gardens that exis...
15: ...ate an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous...
17: ...just "hanging” but "overhanging," as in the case of a terrace or balcony. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three day...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Pi...
12: ... of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Un... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...ави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Ru...
3: ... on [[July 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1072;левская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]]...
5: ... Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than h...
7: ...ding of [[partial differential equation]]s (the [[Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially compl...
11: ...to have stuck for when she later took calculus it came to her very quickly, as if it had always been t...
15: ...ical study, calling her "a new [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]" in the process. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...nguage|Russian]] '''София Асгатов...
5: ...sponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by...
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s ...
19: *''Night in Memphis'' cantata (1968)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...ed, cited as either the German [[Polish September Campaign|invasion of Poland]] on [[1 September]] [[1...
6: ...ean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|Midd...
8: ...]'s [[Unit 731]] experiments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front...
10: ...on of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic...
22: ...olonies of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, No... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
43: *[[Caspar Buberl]] (1834 - 1899)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...twice the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population...
4: ...mber [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Repu...
13: ...entury]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribe...
15: ...y|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous,...
17: ... Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...sed military force to dissolve the parliament and called for new legislative elections (''see'' [[Russ...
4: ...ontinued to wane as Russia's regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Althou...
6: ==Historical background==
8: ...t politics and government; they also controlled local administration.
10: ...d the creation or strengthening of various specifically Russian institutions in the RSFSR. Certain pol... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
10: ...up. He insisted the Mormons should settle in a location no one else wanted and felt the isolated [[Gr...
12: ...l conflicts over grazing rights, water access and campsites with travelers using the established [[Ore...
14: ... 1846. A few days later, the Carthage Convention called for establishment of a militia that would for...
17: ...ained 73 wagons, draft animals, and livestock and carried enough supplies to provision the group for o...
23: ...ner Party|Donner-Reed party]] on their journey to California the previous year. As the vanguard compan... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ut this time of year around AD 30-33. (''Easter'' can also refer to the season of the church year, las...
4: ...ughter of the Passover lambs (perhaps for theological reasons). This would put the Last Supper slightl...
6: ...]] and [[historian]] [[Bede]], this month was dedicated to the [[pagan]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostr...
59: ...lar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The precise date of Easter has often bee...
61: ...stern Orthodox churches use the original [[Julian calendar]], their dates are not usually aligned in t... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
2: ...mage = [[image:Guinea_1.jpg|250px|Guinea Pigs]] | caption = }}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Caviidae]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Caviinae]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''Cavia''}}
13: ''Cavia porcellus''<br> - Guinea Pigs (18488 bytes)
2: ...mage = [[image:Guinea_1.jpg|250px|Guinea Pigs]] | caption = }}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Caviidae]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Caviinae]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''Cavia''}}
13: ''Cavia porcellus''<br> - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: :''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)...
4: ...]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding [[Pr...
8: ...brew Bible|Hebrew Old Testament]], where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]]...
10: ...ital, [[Susa]], and geographers after [[Ptolemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily centred in t...
19: ...s dating to beginning of the [[Akkadian Empire]], ca. [[2300 BC]]. - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
6: ! Category
35: | [[Macau]] (?m鮯澳门 – Macau)
43: ...azija/Абхазия)
77: ...a]] (Adygeja/Адыгея – Adyge/Адыг&...
83: ...1103; – Burjaad/Буряад) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...e science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systematics|biological systematics]].
9: ...ner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...rd Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advances in classification due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the ...
13: ...ral theology. The approach he took to the classification of plants in his [[Historia Plantarum]] was a...
17: ...or his introduction of a method of modern classification; he created systematic zoology and botany in ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
17: | [[Geographic coordinate system|Location]]: || {{coor dm|59|56|N|30|20|E|region:RU_typ...
33: ..._spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...69;д, [[1914]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the...
38: ... "window to Europe", it served thenceforth as the capital of the country during the [[Russian Empire|i...
40: ...#1089;еверная столица... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
4: ...to a historical [[dynasty]] or bloodline. In some cases the royal family may claim to hold authority b...
6: ... of monarchy alongside the symbolism of democracy can lead to division over the apparently contradicto...
9: ...er by acclamation of the ruling or of the warrior caste of a clan or group of clans: kings of the Fran...
11: ... [[England]], this process began with the [[Magna Carta]] of [[1215]], although it did not reach democ...
14: ...but not to allow [[education]] and rapid [[communication]] to flourish. The economic structure of such... - Muscle (12774 bytes)
8: **[[cardiac muscle]]: found within the [[heart]]
16: ... metabolism]] and [[mitochondria]] and hence more capable of endurance activities (activities that don...
17: .... Type II fibers are further divided into two sub-categories :
18: ...s. They're also called the couch-potato fibers, because when a person excercises regularly, type IIx f...
19: ...sustain an effort longer than the type IIx fibers can (for up to 3 minutes in highly trained athletes)... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
15: | [[1103 Sequoia]] || [[November 9]], [[1928]]
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
30: ...nova of the year [[1054]], and identified the optical counterparts of various [[radio astronomy|radio]...
32: ...[[Apollo asteroid|Apollo-class asteroid]] [[1566 Icarus]] (whose perihelion is closer than that of [[M...
34: ... Russell Lectureship]] of the [[American Astronomical Society]] in [[1958]].
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