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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
15: ...cided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
19: ...ng upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size...
21: ...esented an amazing spectacle: A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
35: ** [[The Hanging Garden]] ([[Film]])
57: [[uk:Сади Семирамі... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
8: ... carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] point...
11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#769;ньевна Сави́цка&...
3: ...y 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
45: ...welchen Tanz eine einfache Holzrassel f?h vollf?Слушишь т...
60: *''Figures of Time (Фигур... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...: '''Лариса Семёновн...
5: Born '''Larissa Diriy''', she first practiced [[ballet]], but turned to gymnastics...
9: ...medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault compe...
11: ...of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze.
13: ...a retired after the [[1966]] World Championships, finishing second with the Soviet team, and became a ... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
1: ...nd Montenegro''' ([[Serbian language|Serbian]]: Србија и j...
3: ...es and currencies. The country does not have a unified capital anymore, dividing its common institutio...
5: ...;едница<br/>Србија и j...
22: | '''[[Official language]]'''
56: ...c]] and [[Latin alphabet]]). More languages are official at various local levels.<br/> - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
2: ...least as far back as the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]]), but it was also widely used throug...
5: ...basketry, or a writing surface. This latter usage finds its way into English in such words as ''biblio...
10: ... outer rind is first stripped off, and the sticky fibrous inner [[pith]] is cut lengthwise into thin s...
13: ...sive papyrus was often reused, writing across the fibres on the ''[[verso]]'' [http://www-user.uni-bre...
15: ...include the [[Elephantine papyri]] and the famous finds at [[Oxyrhynchus]] and [[Nag Hammadi]]. The [[... - California (63989 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
32: ...Zone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylig...
44: ...tate symbols please verify your changes against official California Government Code sections 420-429.8...
55: ... = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
89: ...]]; see [[economy of California]]). The state's official nickname is "The Golden State" in reference t... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
9: ...e [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[...
11: ...ifest in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12t...
20: The trigger for the First Crusade was Emperor [[Alexius I]]'s appeal to ...
23: ..., with its sense that the highest good was to die fighting for the cause of the right deity, in a Chri... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
19: ... wrestling matches and foot races. More than one field researcher has reported witnessing meerkats in...
30: ...n noted to carry an element of meaning, with specific calls alerting to the approach of snakes, birds ...
32: ...he character [[Timon (Lion King)|Timon]] from the film ''[[The Lion King]]''.
41: [[bg:Сурикат]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...ilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[M...
15: ...in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
19: ...d the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to coloni...
23: ... revive, and organized its own war of reconquest, finally subjugating its enemies and annexing their t...
27: ...(title)|Caesar]]'', also written Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding are... - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...|illegitimate]] and only son of [[Robert the Magnificent]], [[Duke of Normandy]], and [[Herleva]], the...
14: ...asion. With the assistance of King Henry, William finally secured control of Normandy by defeating the...
18: ...ux]] and [[Robert, Count of Mortain]] played significant roles in his life.
29: This was the defining moment of what is now known as the [[Norman C...
38: ...e signatures of William I and Matilda (beside the first two large Xs) on the Accord of Winchester from... - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
7: ...of man, the purpose of Byzantine art was the glorification of [[God]], and particularly of his son, [[...
11: In place of the nude, the figures of God the Father, Jesus Christ, the [[Virgi...
19: ...iritual nature of his subjects. To this end simplification and stylisation were perfectly acceptable.
21: ...a Sophia]], a building of superior scale and magnificence to anything in the ancient world.
25: ...as not until all of these cities had fallen - the first two to the [[Arabs]] and Rome to the [[Goths]]... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...fer to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends arou...
4: ...ed by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover [[seder...
6: ...] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, althou...
59: ...oveable feast]]s'', in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the [[Gregorian calendar | Gregorian]]...
61: ...]] during the reign of [[Charlemagne]], when they finally adopted the Alexandrian method. Since wester... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
37: | [[Finland]]
103: ...утия – Sacha/Саха)
105: ...rth Ossetia-Alania]] (Severnaja Osetija-Alanija/Северная... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ... Latin]] by making [[Greek language|Greek]] the official language). Numismatists note the monetary ref...
8: ...; son in-law of Constantine I, brother-in-law and first cousin of Constantius II, grandson of Constant...
23: ...d [[474]] - [[491]]) – son-in-law of Leo I (first husband of Ariadne), father of Leo II
84: ...]]) – son-in-law of Constantine VIII (Zoe's first husband)
92: *[[Michael VI]] Stratioticus (ruled [[1056]] - [[1057]]) – chosen by Theodora - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...1099;}} and ''[[The Firebird|L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird)]]'' {{lang|ru|Жар-П...
12: ...hka's'' emphasis on [[polyphony|bitonality]], and finally to the savage [[polyphony|polyphonic]] disso...
19: ...t double-life, spending some of his time with his first family and the rest with Vera. Katerina soon l...
21: ...rom ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specific occasions and paid for generously.
25: ...th in [[1971]], unsuccessfully writing music for films. Stravinsky had adapted to life in [[France]],... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
42: ...ion) and the [[Northwestern Federal District]] (Северо-за...
52: ... the outdoor museum of [[Neoclassicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] ...
62: ...med for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, now hous...
70: ...chitect, [[Auguste de Montferrand]]. Another magnificent church in the [[Empire style]] is the [[Kazan... - Gemstone (7411 bytes)
1: ... (as in [[lapis lazuli]]) or [[Petrification|petrified]] material that when cut or faceted and polishe...
4: ==Charateristics and classification==
5: ...b>). Next, many gems are crystals which are classified by [[crystal system]] such as [[cubic]] or [[tr...
7: Gems are classified into different ''groups'', ''species'' and ''va...
9: ...ispersion (optics)|dispersion]], a certain [[specific gravity]], a certain [[Mohs scale of mineral har...
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