Xenosauridae
Xenosauridae (xenosaurs, crocodile lizards; order Squamata, suborder Sauria) A family of robust lizards which enter water readily. They have a mixture of large and small scales. The family comprises the xenosaurs, three species of
crepuscular insect-eaters from the rain forests of Central America, and a single species from China,
Shinisaurus crocodilurus (crocodile lizard) which feeds on fish.
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Nikolai Pogodin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nikolai Pogodin , pseud. of Nikolai Feodorovich Stukalov , 1900-1962, Russian dramatist. Pogodin wrote many colorful, optimistic, and popular plays generally dealing with the theme of man's conquest of the machine. In Tempo (1930, tr...
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Pogodin, Nikolai Fedorovich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Pogodin, Nikolai Fedorovich [ Nikolai Fedorovich Stukalov ] (1900–62), prolific Soviet dramatist, writing mostly in the style of Socialist Realism . He was originally a journalist, and his first play Tempo (1930) was a documentary...
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Okhlopkov, Nikolai Pavlovich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Okhlopkov, Nikolai Pavlovich (1900–67), Soviet...adaptation of Gorky's The Mother in 1933 and Pogodin's Aristocrats (1934), for each of...Arbuzov's Endless Distance (1958), and Pogodin's The Little Student (1959).
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Khmelev, Nikolai Pavlovich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Khmelev, Nikolai Pavlovich (1901–45), Soviet actor and director, who joined...Peklevanov in V. Ivanov's Armoured Train 14–69, Zabelin in Pogodin's The Kremlin Chimes , and Tusenbach in Chekhov's Three Sisters...
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Peter I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...modernizer" or "westernizer," who forced changes upon his often reluctant subjects. In 1846 the Russian historian Nikolai Pogodin wrote: "The Russia of today, that is to say, European Russia, diplomatic, political, military, commercial...
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