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Russia Volgograd
Stalingrad, Volgograd/Russia See Volgograd.... Read more |
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Gubaidulina Composer Criticized by Professors Tagged as Avant-Garde Traveled to North America Milestone Birthday Honors Selected compositions Selected discography Sources Until the political situation changed in her native Russia, Sofia Gubaidulina struggled in obscurity as a... Read more |
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John Lloyd Stephens
John Lloyd Stephens 1805-52, American author and traveler, b. Shrewsbury, N.J., grad. Columbia College, 1822. His travels (1834-36) in Europe, the Middle East, and Central America provided the material for a number of studies. By far the best are Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petraea, and... Read more |
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Jewish Colonization Association
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION Philanthropic organization (also known as the ICA and the PICA, or Palestine Jewish Colonization Association) founded in 1891. Baron Maurice de Hirsch founded the ICA to assist Jews in Europe and Asia to flee persecution and go to countries in the Western... Read more |
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Tidal power
tidal power. The twice daily ebb and flow of the tides have the potential to provide considerable amounts of renewable energy. The first attempts to harness tidal energy were the tidal mills; the earliest found in Northern Ireland date from the 7th century. The principle is that water is stored... Read more |
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Russia Company
RUSSIA COMPANY In the early modern period, different branches of international trade were controlled by large groups of merchants linked in a single company with its own charter, monopoly rights, membership, directors, and regulations. The Russia Company (also known as the Muscovy Company), founded... Read more |
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Kara
Kara , river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course.... Read more |
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov
Butlerov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (b. Chistopol, Kazanskaya [now Tatarskaya, A.S.S.R.], Russia, 6 September 1828; d.a Butlerovka, Kazanskaya, Russia, 17 August 1886) chemistry. Butlerov |
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Ordzhonikidze
Ordzhonikidze, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine All towns are named after Grigory (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze†. One town in Russia formerly with this name has been renamed Denisovka and one in Tajikistan is now Kofarnihon. Perhaps the most famous Russian city temporarily bearing this name is now... Read more |
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Livonian War
LIVONIAN WAR The Livonian War (1558–1583), for the possession of Livonia (historic region that became Latvia and Estonia) was first between Russia and the knightly Order of Livonia, and then between Russia and Sweden and the Polish–L... Read more |
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