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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ... at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look like fanciful descrip...
19: ...th earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are c...
21: ... green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the plain.
43: ...080; на Вавилон]]
53: [[pl:Wiszące ogrody Semiramidy]] - Steel (28384 bytes)
5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8:
15: ... to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensite, by contr...
23: ...dification process, and to produce shapes such as plate, sheet, wire, etc. It is then heat-treated to...
26: ...recovered from meteorite falls allowed ancient peoples to manufacture small numbers of iron artifacts. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
9: ...time between [[1080]] and [[1084]], probably in [[1083]]. Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in...
22: ...nerate''", and had his younger brother Theobald replace him as heir. Her son Stephen left Blois in [[1... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...90;ерина I Алексеевн... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...1072;ве́та (Елисаве́т)...
13: ...ured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the ...
19: ...ardie took a leading part in the revolution which placed the daughter of Peter the Great on the Russia...
23: ...ate as eight o'clock the next morning very few people in the city were aware of it.
25: ...r government. Her usually keen judgment and her diplomatic tact again and again recall Peter the Great... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very few "[[Old ...
5: At the time of the split in the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party...
7: ... new marriage, education, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized lat...
13: ...] gained power, he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appointed Soviet Amba...
15: ... nor executed by the Stalin regime, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influenc... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: '''Anna Comnena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of the [[Byzantine E...
3: ...ify her longing for power. Having married an accomplished young nobleman, [[Nicephorus Bryennius]], sh...
5: ...]] of her father's life and reign (1081-1118), supplementing the historical work of her husband. It is... - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...skaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Евг... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...#1085;ти́на Влади́мир&...
5: ... cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]]...
7: ...йка}} ). Even though there were plans for further female flights it took 19 years un... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...1074;на Ковалевская) ([[Ja...
7: ...lly completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s ...
15: ...istorically, and the friend was so impressed he implored Sophia's father to let her take private mathe...
17: ...] and is interred there in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
45: ...1072;нцует для тебя оk... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...'' (<font lang="ru">балала́йка</font>) is a s...
18: ...n the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] ...
20: ...e contrabass' strings, it is not uncommon for the plectrum to be made of a leather [[shoe]] or [[boot]...
26: ...e modern saz, which allows for the [[microtonal]] playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian mus...
30: ...act that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its u... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
9: ...y)<br>Республика Каза...
76: ...1086;е Управление) in St. Petersburg. ...
84: ... mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs took place in [[Almaty]] to protest the methods of the [[...
91: ... standards. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Min... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ia]]. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[T...
52: ...201 BC]]. The earliest ancestors of the Kyrgyz people, who are believed to be of [[Turkic]] descent, l...
54: ...ry draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, caused many Kyrgyz to flee to China.
58: ...d [[Kyrgyz alphabet]] was introduced, which was replaced by [[Latin script]] in [[1928]]. In [[1941]] ...
72: ...[[referendum]] asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office. He received 96.2% of the v... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ... decisions for groups. Although it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed ...
4: ...tical behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's...
14: ...bes the transformation of human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an u...
18: ...t was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of [[Feudalism]] a...
23: ...r between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebian]] general [[citizens]]. It also contained t... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualties by country|die...
10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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54: ...ivisions in preference to the static theories exemplified by the [[Maginot Line]].
56: ...ble exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a major role in de Gaulle's career.
63: ... were in favor of continuing the war. He took the plane back to [[Bordeaux]] (provisory seat of the Fr... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
10: ...ian.JPG|thumb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
11: ...]]-[[May 21]], [[1927]] in his single-engine [[airplane]] ''[[Spirit of St. Louis|The Spirit of St. Lo...
13: Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the ''[[Orteig Prize]]'' of $25,00...
22: ...9. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her...
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