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  • spires, once thought to be giant rubies mined in Siberia, are actually colored glass. The Kremlin stars are the five-pointed red stars installed in ...
    12 KB (1,706 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
  • Strait, linking Alaska in the United States and Siberia. This would be a vital link in the great project of creating a single land transit route spanning ...
    11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
  • the punishment for which was exile to Siberia for life. The emergence of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, however, prevented his case ...
    13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
  • in the Soviet Army were forcibly exiled to Siberia and Central Asia, where ... whose expansion into and exploration of Siberia was motivated primarily ...
    59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
  • did they lack any hint of a plan to deport Jews to Siberia, in fact they called for the creation of a Jewish newspaper. The real text of the famous letter ...
    12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
  • translated into English as My Exile to Siberia (2 vols., 1855). ... * __________. My exile in Siberia. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1855. ...
    24 KB (3,543 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
  • version, Isaac Babel died in a prison camp in Siberia on March 17, 1941. His archives and manuscripts were confiscated by the NKVD and lost. Many of ...
    11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
  • probably the same people who inhabited Siberia. Since few archaeological sites in this period have been found, little is known of the early ...
    12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
  • England, Africa, Japan, and back to Russia via Siberia as the secretary of Admiral Putyatin. His travelogue, a chronicle of the trip, The Frigate Pallada ...
    12 KB (1,938 words) - 06:35, 11 March 2024
  • copper deposits in South Africa, Ontario, and Siberia. Although the proportion of palladium in the nickel-copper ores is low, the processing of large ...
    13 KB (1,749 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
  • Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dimitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva). Mendeleev was the ...
    13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
  • A bog is a freshwater wetland characterized by acidic peat deposits and by moisture provided by precipitation (rain and snow) rather than groundwater ...
    13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
  • deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is also the world's longest freshwater lake and one of the world's oldest lakes, having ...
    12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
  • were executed or forcibly resettled to Siberia, where a large portion were ... minorities were deported to Gulags in Siberia. Stalin also sent all Russian ...
    33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
  • the Buryats living in Transbaikalia and Siberia (Subarkhan) continue to ... *Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam. Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of ...
    26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
  • in parts of Africa, Scandinavia, Siberia, southwestern North America, and Australia. ==Technique== [[Image:Haljesta.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Composite ...
    25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
  • Ryumin. Other Decembrists were exiled to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Far East. Suspicion also fell on several eminent persons who were on friendly ...
    14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
  • *Khanty Ocean, the ocean between Baltica and Siberia. *Mirovia, the ... *Ural Ocean, the ocean between Siberia and Baltica. ==Extraterrestrial ...
    25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
  • were sent to the Gulag labor camps in Siberia and elsewhere. The restrictions were loosened somewhat after Stalin's death in 1953 but the ...
    14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 2023
  • The development of the periodic table of the elements parallels the development of science and our understanding of the physical universe. It ...
    15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023

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