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- 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... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ...escendants, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]], played a major role in medieval history by creating ...
5: ...est. When Malik Shah died in [[1092]] the empire split, as his brother and four sons quarrelled over t...
33: * [[Kerman Shah]] [[1073]]-[[1074]]
34: * [[Sultan Shah of Kerman|Sultan Shah]] [[1074]]-[[1075]] - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognis...
8: ...eir governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...were known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'...
12: ...f Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the...
40: ...l freedom of the high seas, and violate the principle ''extra territorium jus dicenti impune non paret... - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...through the eighth century. They in turn were displaced by a group of Scandinavians, the [[Varangian...
15: ...be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[1...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu...
37: ...he struggle. It is estimated that over 200,000 people have died in this conflict. Minor conflicts also... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
10: ...es, and Russian branches of trade unions, for example. As the titular nationalities of the other fourt...
12: ...ecutive office, the presidency, following the example of Gorbachev, who had created such an office for...
16: ...by Yeltsin, combined with the irresolution of the plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three da...
18: ...ed full independence, and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's ...
22: ... executive powers for one year so that he might implement his economic reforms. In November 1991, he a... - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
8: ...rus II) bridge]], is 1090 meters long, and was completed in [[1988]] about five kilometers north of th...
10: ...nel]] is under construction and expected to be completed in [[2008]]. Approximately 1,400 meters of th... - Easter (31700 bytes)
4: ...he [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought o...
63: ...d Western churches. The reform was proposed for implementation starting in [[2001]], but it was not ul...
69: ...lations for the date of Easter can be somewhat complicated. See [[computus]] for a discussion covering...
73: ...mining the holiday's date were also used. For example, [[Quartodecimanism]] was the practice of settin...
89: ...gy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent "Feast of Feasts" in the [[... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
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24: ...20 different species, the one most familiar to people is ''C. porcellus'', the common guinea pig. The ...
27: ...siders them similar to rabbit in taste. They also play the role of evil-spirit collector in traditiona... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
6: ...inued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The...
19: ... March [[1827]] Darwin made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that black spores o...
22: ...clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to explore the wonders of God's creation.
26: ...t Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders...
27: ...anted to study natural history in the tropics and planned to visit [[Madeira]] with some class-mates u... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
9: ...e place where [[Christ]] had lived and died. In [[1074]], [[Pope Gregory VII]] called for the ''milites ...
12: ... Anatolia into Great Seljuk, but this empire was split apart by civil war after the death of [[Malik S...
26: ...d Italy as well. Urban tried to forbid certain people (including women, monks, and the sick) from join...
28: ===The People's Crusade===
29: ''Main article: [[People's Crusade]]'' - Guinea Pigs (18488 bytes)
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24: ...20 different species, the one most familiar to people is ''C. porcellus'', the common guinea pig. The ...
27: ...siders them similar to rabbit in taste. They also play the role of evil-spirit collector in traditiona... - List of autonomous entities (9309 bytes)
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93: ...арача́ево-Черке́...
101: ...] (Mordovija/Мордовия)
105: ...ania]] (Severnaja Osetija-Alanija/Северная Ос...
109: | [[Tuva]] (Tyva/Тыва) - Pterosaurs (10375 bytes)
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24: ...tologists to study. The first find in the Araripe Plateau was discovered in 1974.
38: ...The presence of fur (and the demands of flight) imply that pterosaurs were warm-blooded ('[[endotherm]... - Capricornus (6733 bytes)
10: ... the [[Tropic of Capricorn]], a term which also applies to the line on earth where the sun is directly...
14: ... equinoxes, the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in Capricorn, but the astrolo...
16: The planet [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] was discovered in this constellati...
19: ...as transformed into the [[cornucopia]] or horn of plenty. Some ancient sources claim that this derives...
32: ... [[exaltation_(astrology)|exaltation]] of [[Mars_(planet)|Mars]]. Its polar opposite is Cancer. Each a... - Chemical equilibrium (5726 bytes)
1: ...its rate of decomposition. [[Le Chatelier's principle]] describes qualitative predictions that can be ...
14: ...y on [[temperature|temperature]]. One important implication of that is the possibility of shifting an ...
16: ...ons since the expressions for each step just multiply together in order to compose the global process ...
18: ...tem. The dependance of thermodynamic potentials explains why equilibrium constants are related to it....
26: ...hich can then be neglected. Note that all this applies to a reaction at constant temperature only. F... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...1074;ич Стравинский}}) ([[...
7: ...Time magazine]] as one of the most influential people of the century.
14: ... displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifes...
23: ... of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, [[Otto Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenber...
25: ...lectual and professional life in the USA. When he planned to write an opera with [[W. H. Auden]], the ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
31: | [[License plate]]: || 78, 98
40: ... it often "the Northern Capital" (северная ст...
42: ...[Northwestern Federal District]] (Северо-запа...
60: ...pg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the [[Winter Palace]] at right]]
62: ... of Russia|Emperor Paul]] in 1797–1801 to replace the earlier Summer Palace. The Tauride palace ... - Green alga (4059 bytes)
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13: ...the [[Charales]], the closest relatives of higher plants, full differentiation of tissues occurs.
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