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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ... Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as t...
5: ... completely substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions.
7: ...hing similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of raising the water to the required height.
13: ...d not hang but rather grew on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II...
15: ...he flat, sun-baked terrain of [[Mesopotamia]] depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
22: ...d as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
5: ...ngland]] and [[Henry of Blois]], [[Bishop of Winchester]].
7: ...Henry I of England]]; they were probably the youngest of the Conqueror's children. She was a high-spir...
9: ...d Meaux in [[1089]], making him one of the wealthiest men of his day. He was a proud and self-indulgen...
12: # Guillaume, Count of Chartres
16: # Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard, Earl of Chester - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...459.jpg|thumb|right|230px|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ... of [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] and Empress of [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. Wit...
5: ...to minister Gluck of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to...
7: ... Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she converted to [[Orthodoxy]] an...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enl...
4: == Life before becoming empress ==
5: ...er, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine...
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ...s. A legislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this doc... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...s.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...[[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine ...
9: ...es with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordina... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... thus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[19...
7: ...on worked to improve the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and ...
11: ...s' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined. - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: '''Anna Comnena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of the [[Byzantine E...
3: ... she exclaimed that "nature had mistaken their sexes, for he ought to have been the woman."
5: ...s she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
9: ===References===
11: ...tml The Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928 - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...woman in space some 19 years after [[Valentina Tereshkova]].
3: ...was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
1: ...age:Tereshkova.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Valentina Tereshkova]]
3: ...#1085;ти́на Влади́мир&...
5: ...hanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...a]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...he [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
3: ... managed to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particu...
5: ...stronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another A...
7: ...tion]]s (the [[Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]...
11: ...ours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...#1043;убаидулина''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]...
3: ...in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959...
5: ...s in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[music...
7: ...roup with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
11: ... on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date. - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...iangle|triangular]] body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs).
5: The modern balalaika is found in six sizes:
18: ...ma, while a [[plectrum]] is used on the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it i...
26: ...with the nature of the Central Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier bal...
28: ..., sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed the [[Tsar]], the [[Russian Orthodox Ch... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...]], and the [[Central Asia|Central Asian]] countries [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Turkmenista...
3: ... sq km (16 per sq mi). Population in [[2005]] was estimated at 15,100,500 [http://www.stat.kz/en/info/...
9: ...9;ахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
34: | '''Largest city'''
37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]''' - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...tion of 2005|revolution]] and President Akayev's resignation on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the politic...
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6: native_name = (Kyrgyzskaya respublika) |
13: official_languages = [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Russian lan...
17: ...r_titles = [[President of Kyrgyzstan|President]]<br> [[Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan|Prime M... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Altho...
4: ...]''' is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. th...
9:
11: ...e the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...which require densely populated settlements - cities. - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...sion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. [[August 9]], [[1945]]]]
2: ... every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in [[World War I]] were involve...
4: ...ino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue th...
6: ...ctory]] Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [...
8: ... of World War II casualties by country|died as a result of the war]], including acts of genocide such ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ... de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
5: |+ <big><big>'''Charles de Gaulle'''</big></big>
10: | [[President of France]]
19: | [[Georges Pompidou]]
31: - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles_Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...ust 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo ...
6: ...on the line [[St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
11: ...ned by Donald Hall and custom built by Ryan Airlines of [[San Diego, California]]. He needed 33.5 hour...
13: ...ited States]]. On [[March 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic tran...
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