Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway railroad system in much of the United States (except the Northeast) and in S Canada, created in 1995 from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and the Santa Fe Pacific Corp. (see Santa Fe RR ). The Burlington Northern RR, with headquarters in Fort Worth, Tex, was itself created (1970) from the merger of four older regional railroads: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR (est. 1864), the Northern Pacific Railway (1864), the Great Northern Railway (1857), and the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway (1905). In 1980, Burlington Northern acquired the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (chartered 1849). By the late 1990s the system had over 34,000 miles of track in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. In 1999 the system announced a $6 billion merger with the Canadian National Railway to create the largest railroad in North America, but in 2000 the deal was scrapped after the U.S. Surface Transportation Board froze all such mergers.
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A BROTHER IN VOLHYNIA.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...neighbors. We changed clothes before dinner. Misha read his poems to us. He wanted to become a writer, to describe our life in Volhynia. Mama was very proud of him. She took walks with us to the bridge, and we watched our reflections in the Styr River. The...
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Painter, dreamer, governor, spy
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...corners of eastern Europe, the province of Volhynia must be among the oddest and most forgotten...impassable roads and its lonely villages, Volhynia now lies in the north-west corner of...border. But before the second world war Volhynia was one of the easternmost provinces...
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Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kritika; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of 1918-21. Appointed governor of Volhynia by Pilsudski, Jozewski did his best to put these precepts into practice: his Volhynia Experiment reduced tensions with and...than cooperation prevailed. Even in Volhynia itself, the army, and other key elements...
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Letters
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...committed against the Jewish population in Volhynia, the ethnically Ukrainian region of...to drive the Polish population out of Volhynia, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacred...worst Ukrainian violence occurred in Volhynia in 1943, those cleansing operations...
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A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of a small region in today's Zhytomyr oblast' (a part of Volhynia) from about the mid 1920s to just after the end of World War...and Ukrainian Insurgent Army toward the Polish population of Volhynia. These policies, and the actions which followed from them...
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Babel's Revenge
Newspaper article from: The Jerusalem Report; 3/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...yellowing rye, virginal buckwheat is standing on the horizon like the wall of a faraway monastery. Silent Volhynia is turning away, Volhynia is leaving, heading into the pearly white fog of the birch groves, creeping through the flowering hillocks...
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...myriad substantive conclusions may be mentioned. Galicia-Volhynia and Suzdal-Vladimir did not complete the formulation of their...after the Mongol destruction of Kyivan Rus', and Galicia-Volhynia advanced its claims first, in the thirteenth century; Plokhy...
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A History of Ukraine
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ascertaining the incontestable continuity of the Galicia-Volhynia's social institutions and culture with regard to Kievan traditions...territory was controlled by the Tartars, while in Galicia-Volhynia the specific features of the former culture and social institutions...
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The Legend of Pinsk
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and in Olevsk, Ovrucz, Baracze, and Iczomyrz in north Volhynia. At the end of October 1648, the city was invaded by Khmielnitski...Russia, White Russia and Lithuania, its river-roads to Volhynia, Dniepr and Russia enabled trade and industry to grow; while...
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Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...voice in the narrative is Sheptytsky's; other key figures that interacted with Sheptytsky, from the Orthodox Archbishop of Volhynia Evlogii to the Ukrainian nationalists of the 1930s, are presented solely through the prism of Sheptytsky's opinion. The...
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Volhynia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Volhynia , Ukr. and Rus. Volyn, Pol. Wo...said to have stood on the Western Bug. Volhynia's early history from c.981 coincides...the grand duchy of Halych-Volodymyr, Volhynia was divided (c.1388) between Poland...
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Trade Routes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...salt was hauled from Halych in Galicia-Volhynia to Kiev. Later, the importance of the salt of Galicia-Volhynia to not only the Kievan Rus, but also...trade west of the Crimea. Galicia-Volhynia's power and influence, based on the...
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Lutsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...000), capital of Volyn region (see Volhynia ), Ukraine, a port on the Styr River...Luchesk, it is one of the oldest cities of Volhynia. It was the main fortress of the Luchan...Veliki. Lutsk, together with all of Volhynia, was part of Kievan Rus until 1154...
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Kołłątaj, Hugo (1750–1812)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...thought, historian, and philosopher. Born in Dederkaly (Volhynia), the youngest son of an impoverished gentry family, he...Ko ł ł ą taj settled in Russian Volhynia, where, under discreet police surveillance, he continued...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...own, as the formerly powerful principalities of Galicia and Volhynia — heirs of the once mighty Kievan Rus' —...adding to its earlier Ukrainian possessions the Podlasia, Volhynia, Kiev, and Bratslav regions. All of the Belarusian lands...
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