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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
1: ...[image:ogrody_semiramidy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Gardens of Semiramis, 20th century interpretation]]
3: ...[[Babylon]] were considered one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. They were both supposedly buil...
5: ...t completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ... possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to th...
8: ...'s History of the Ancients program The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. --> - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitr...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
12: ...bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Republican]... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...ави́цкая}}); born [[August 8]], [[1948]], in [[Moscow, Ru...
3: ...tra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[188...
3: ...ged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; ...
5: ...) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation o...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial differential equation]]s (t...
9: ...to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...ervatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nik...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group w...
11: ...). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work t...
15: ...f a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occ... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...er of debate. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish Septemb...
6: ...il [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 August]] [[1945]] ([[V-J Day]]).
8: ...Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians]] to a new degree. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[...
10: ...d States' military occupation of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Co...
16: ...ed in the war, more or less voluntarily, on the side of the power that in their neighbourhood was the ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...ndonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Bangladesh]].
4: ... Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
15: ...e and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...nd]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north fr...
19: ...y. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region. - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ... strong presidency, was approved by referendum in December [[1993]].
4: ...dered alternatives. As the transition period extended into the mid-[[1990s]], the power of the nationa...
8: ...blics' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the uni...
10: ... voicing), which made possible open discussion of democratic reforms and long-ignored public problems ...
12: ...ularly elected as president in June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 pe... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
4: ...4]], most notably in [[Kirtland, Ohio]], [[Independence, Missouri]], and [[Nauvoo, Illinois]]. However...
6: ...s Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Under Young's leadership, about 13,000 Mormon citizens of Nauvoo set ...
10: ... and felt the isolated [[Great Basin]] would provide the Saints with many advantages.
12: ...blished [[Oregon Trail]] on the river’s south side.
14: ...ne.<ref>Bennett, p. 6.</ref> To try to meet this deadline and to get an early start on the trek to th... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...iday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...n]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover l...
6: ... fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any link.
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59: ...ed on a [[lunar calendar]] similar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The preci... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rodentia]]}}
22: ...lution]]ary offshoot, and therefore a different order.
24: Despite their common name, the animals are not [[pig...
27: ...red usually by roasting; the general opinion considers them similar to rabbit in taste. They also play...
29: ...ead relative to the body, a stout neck, and a rounded rump with no tail of any consequence. - Guinea Pigs (18488 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rodentia]]}}
22: ...lution]]ary offshoot, and therefore a different order.
24: Despite their common name, the animals are not [[pig...
27: ...red usually by roasting; the general opinion considers them similar to rabbit in taste. They also play...
29: ...ead relative to the body, a stout neck, and a rounded rump with no tail of any consequence. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...southwestern [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], wi...
5: ... Empire]] that succeeded it, and may thus be considered the starting point of the [[history of Iran]].
8: ...], where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...n provincial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', w...
13: ...ndus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language are attes... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
1: Several countries have autonomous entities inside their territory, usually giving autonomy to ethni...
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38: | 1 autonomous province under international law
43: ...azija/Абхазия)
55: | [[Sardinia]] (Sardegna) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[g...
7: ...lle]], translated and abridged Aristotle's book ''de Anima'' (''On Animals'') into Arabic. His origina...
9: ...nce in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (15...
11: ...g this knowledge to classify living beings bear a debt to the research of medical anatomists, such as ...
13: ...toria Plantarum]] was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomou... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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13: ...stricts of Russia|District]]: || [[Northwestern Federal District|North West Russia]]
15: ...ia|Subdivision]]: || [[Federal cities of Russia|federal city]]
23: | [[Population density]]: || 7691 persons/km�
25: | [[Altitude]]: || 3 m - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: ... use the terms "democracy," "republic," and "presidency.") -->
4: ... monarch involves inheritance according to an [[order of succession]], usually within one [[royal fami...
6: ... symbolism of monarchy alongside the symbolism of democracy can lead to division over the apparently c...
9: ...kings, Achaemenid kings of Persia. Other monarchs derived their power by acclamation of the ruling or ...
11: ...iderable power. There are also recent ([[2003]]) developments in [[Liechtenstein]], wherein the regna... - Muscle (12774 bytes)
13: ... the smooth muscles and the striated muscles include: the fibers of the smooth muscles are not arrange...
15: Muscles within the skeletal muscle are also divided into two subtypes:
17: ... of your strength. Type II fibers are further divided into two sub-categories :
18: ...ibers (at least a fraction of them does). Thus, sedentary people have a higher proportion of type IIx ...
22: ...] are distributed throughout the muscles and provide feedback sensory information to the [[central ner... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
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15: | [[1103 Sequoia]] || [[November 9]], [[1928]]
23: '''Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade''' ([[March 24]] [[1893]] - [[June 25]] [[1960]])...
28: ...eda galaxy]] for the first time, which led him to define distinct "[[stellar population|populations]]"...
30: ...mnant of the supernova of the year [[1054]], and identified the optical counterparts of various [[radi...
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