Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- 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 Семирамід... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ...
63: ... onto the hillsides where sturdy buildings are difficult to build, and accidents, mainly from heavy ra... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[...
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...72; I Алексеевна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[...
17: ...hikov, and the Supreme Privy Council. She was the first royal owner of the Sarskoje Selo estate, later... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
25: ...s, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some difficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a pro... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...tion of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]. ...
19: ... existing government. The idea seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La ...
25: ...this may be added that she was ever ready to sacrifice the prejudices of the woman to the duty of the ...
29: ...Sweden ceded to Russia all the southern part of [[Finland]] east of the river Kymmene, which thus beca...
39: ...lness of the empress, which began with a fainting-fit at [[Tsarskoe Selo]] (September 19, 1757), nor t... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [...
7: ...ditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and educating women about the ne...
13: ...et Ambassador to [[Norway]], becoming the world's first female Ambassador. She later served as Ambass...
15: Alexandra Kollontai is an unusual figure in the history of the [[Soviet Union]], as sh...
17: Kollontai was the subject of the 1994 TV film, ''A Wave of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kol... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...nd memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[S... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1085;а Цвѣтаева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – ...
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...Евге́ньевна Сави...
3: ...y 25]], [[1984]], cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...nion|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard ...
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...1085;а Ковалевская) ([[January 1...
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s... - 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: ...1103;нная трещотка)'' for six pe...
47: ...063;ет и нечет)'' for seven percussionists, including cy... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...1051;ариса Семёновна...
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 ... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
9: ...br>(Qazaqstan Respūblīkasy)<br>Республик...
25: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
28: | '''[[Official script]]'''
70: ...that is now Kazakhstan since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth ce...
76: ...great resentment against colonial rule during the final years of tsarist Russia, with the most serious... - Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
3: ...es and currencies. The country does not have a unified capital anymore, dividing its common institutio...
5: ...1072;вна заједница<br/>С&#...
22: | '''[[Official language]]'''
56: ...c]] and [[Latin alphabet]]). More languages are official at various local levels.<br/>
63: ...because of its perceived role in the wars. It was finally re-admitted to the United Nations in [[2000]... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...pects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space race]] between ...
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...hter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions ...
11: ...ace. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ... animal in orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vos... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...ld War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South East Asia]], and it continued in China...
20: ...ading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
22: ... States]], from December 1941. [[China]] had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions...
24: ...r in their neighborhood. Sovereignty was often difficult to maintain as many countries that did not di... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
9: ! align="left" | Office:
12: ! align="left" | Term in office:
33: ! align="left" | First Lady:
42: ...tion<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [...
50: ...ssful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).