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- on the front line before he was captured by the Russians in 1915. He had a relatively easy time in the Russian concentration camps, in which the Czechs ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
- #039;s population in 2000, Uzbeks 15.3 percent, Russians 1.1 percent, Kyrgyz 1.1 percent, and others made up 2.6 percent. Tajik is the official language ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- The charred remains were found by the Russians and secretly buried at the SMERSH compound in Magdeburg, East Germany along with the bodies of ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 04:47, 23 March 2024
- After a failed revolt in Bulgaria, the Russians intervened to assist their fellow Slavs and defeated the Ottomans in February, 1878. The terms ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- During one Soviet counter-attack, the Russians lost an entire division ... sealing the ring around Stalingrad. The Russians filmed this linkup for later ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ... of 1877-1878. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- #039;s population. Other ethnic groups include Russians (9.0 percent) concentrated in the north and Uzbeks (14.5 percent) living in the south. Small ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- After all, the sacrifice made by the Russians and the Chinese is enormous, and they are ready to risk all. The same could be said of the other ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- miracle, as did the American squad in 1960, the Russians are expected to win the Olympic gold medal for the sixth time in the last seven tournaments." ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- consciousness of self. But it suits the Russians and is as familiar, natural ... Under the title "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" Duranty ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- Russia was a multi-ethnic empire. Nineteenth-century Russians saw ... was an attempt to secure the support of Russians. Weeks, 475. ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- monetary indemnity were claimed from China by the Russians, Germans, French, and British. The experience of the events leading up to and surrounding this ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- are decorated with greenery, and among the Russians the clergy and faithful carry flowers and green branches in their hands during the services. ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Safavid Persians, Russians and the Soviet Union. ... around 99% of the population. Ethnic Russians and a minority of Kurds ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- a Moscow press conference, she declared that the Russians were "just like us." In Artek, she chose to stay with the Soviet children ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- had been spying on the Japanese military for the Russians. He was about to be decapitated as a "public example." The other Chinese gathered ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Caspian coast a favorite vacation spot for Russians. ==International Disputes== There are three major issues regulated by the Caspian Sea status: ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- the firm that discovered the hacking said Russians were stealing email credentials ... Prague rendezvous to the claims that Russians hacked Vermont's power ...75 KB (10,024 words) - 01:22, 21 September 2022
- Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised in Canada and became a naturalized ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- and the rest are Tungusic-speakers, Chinese, and Russians. Most, but not all, Russians left the country following the withdrawal of economic aid and ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya ( Надежда Константиновна Крупская , scientific transliteration ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- is said to derive from the period the Russians first encountered the people ... European cultures were introduced. The Russians ended slavery, brought the ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- been destroyed by bombing or when the invading Russians burned the German fortification where it was stored. It is presumed lost. It was re-created in 2003 ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- others theorize that it was destroyed by the Russians in a secret confrontation.Ed Offley, [http://members.aol.com/bear317d/scorpion.htm "The USS ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- but later even Poles, Ukrainians and southern Russians. The Janissaries started accepting enrollment from outside the devshirmeh system first ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- sequence in Nevsky is a battle between the Russians and the Teutons that takes place on the ice. Nevsky is also noteworthy for Eisenstein's close ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- Orthodox Christianity between Georgians and Russians was acknowledged, and Georgia’s primate, the Catholicos, became Russia’s eighth, permanent archbishop ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- diverse population. This gives many native Russians a chance to live with and encounter people from different cultures, ethnicities, and religions, sometimes ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- teachers on a great scale, the first to send young Russians abroad to be educated, the first to allow Lutheran churches to be built in Russia. Having ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- In 1480, Ivan III had finally broken the Russians free from Tatar control ... The film struck such a chord with Russians, watching on their standard ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- bі́tva, Battle of Grunwald) by Russians, *Гру́нвальдзкая ... Due to the participation of the Smolensk regiment in the battle, Russians ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- Latin and Greek Churches (1054)" and the Russians "quickly learned to despise the Catholics as 'heretics'." ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- would later say that he wished the Russians were building their own ... not pressed for an early H-bomb test, the Russians' own development might ...41 KB (6,221 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Lithuanians, Letts, Belarusians, and Russians. Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent of the world's Jewish ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- in Kandahar, they split up. One of the Russians was directly escorted to ... and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- received the education commonly given to young Russians of good family at that time: a smattering of a great many subjects and exposure to the chief modern ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- wooden racks for shells to be shipped out to the Russians. With the added work hours, and responsibility, Gene got sick with pneumonia, an illness that ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- * Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999. ISBN 978-0486409054 ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- Håkon also entered negotiations with the Russians regarding border dispute and signed a treaty establishing their Northern boundary. In 1240 ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- poetry "inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight against Stalinism during the Cold War." Raymond H. Anderson, [https://www ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- * The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais, 1872 ) * The Fur Country ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- than half of the army went to fight the Russians on their border, and the ... one hundred thousand troops against the Russians, called the Battle of Sarikamis ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- in 1650s, which ended with a Qing victory. The Russians invaded the northern frontier again in 1680s. After series of battles and negotiations, the two ...20 KB (3,187 words) - 17:31, 14 May 2024
- in an article entitled "The Russians Have Fixed World Chess" ... * Plisetsky, Dmitry, and Sergey Voronkov, ed. Russians Vs. Fischer ...53 KB (7,890 words) - 08:45, 16 November 2023
- | ethnic_groups = 68.4% Estonians,24.7% Russians,1.9% Ukrainians,0 ... it as their first foreign language. Some Russians residing in Estonia do not ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- *The Future Is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians (1960), published under the pseudonym "Joseph Novak" *No Third Path (1962 ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- as Denali, meaning “The High One,” while Russians called it Bolshaya Gora, or “Great Mountain.” It received its current name in 1896, in ...19 KB (2,921 words) - 09:33, 28 January 2024
- of collaboration; and slave labor (primarily Russians and eastern Europeans) being brought to the islands to build fortifications. The Royal Navy ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- In the summer of 2007, the Russians claimed a “great scientific discovery” that involved “more than 100 scientists on board the Akademik ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- is that Russian literature is not only written by Russians. In the Soviet times such popular writers as Belorussian Vasil Bykov, Kyrgyz Chinghiz Aitmatov ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- and Arctic tourism expeditions. The Russians have commented that a nuclear reactor that sinks, such as the similar reactor involved in the Kursk ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Despite having little connection with Saint Patrick or Ireland, Russians ... com/politics_and_society/2017/03/20/why-russians-celebrate-catholic-saint ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- percent of Uzbekistan's population in 1996, Russians 5.5 percent, Tajiks 5 percent, Kazakhs 3 percent, Karakalpaks 2.5 percent, Tatars 1.5 percent ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Norman Naimark writes in The Russians in Germany: A History of the ... * Norman M. Naimark. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- of Sitka. Despite these efforts, the Russians never fully colonized Alaska ... who encroached on territory claimed by Russians, were also becoming a force ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- in defense of his Orthodox subjects, and the Russians began to interfere regularly in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire. This, combined ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- after the war, the US wanted to make the Russians withdraw from Austria, and the Russians wanted to keep Austria neutral, therefore there was ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- * Russians and other non-local landlords were allowed to remain in the Hetmate, but no new peasants could be brought in from the North. ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- failed to create a Ukraine free from the Russians." ... 1999, ISBN 0521311985). as the White Russians—representative of the ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- jpg "Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev"] went ... jpg « Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev »] * [https://www ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- intervention in Russia, arguing that the Russians were contributing to the ... other revolutionaries showed to the Russians. The latter believed the ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- first Allied commander to make contact with the Russians as they advanced from the East. Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Russians refer to the event as the "Caribbean Crisis." Cubans refer to it as the "October Crisis." ==Background== ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- become a Russian proverb, whose origin many Russians do not even recognize. [[Image:O henry museum 2007.jpg|thumb|The O. Henry Museum in Austin ...22 KB (3,541 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- The second largest ethnic group was Russians, who in 2006 formed roughly ... of the Soviet period altered this. Russians, Jews, and Armenians were ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- issued a fatwa in which he stated that once the Russians were ejected from Afghanistan, it would not be permissible for us to take sides." ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- city’s economic growth. It was taken by the Russians after the Siege of Danzig in 1734. By 1754, Danzig had a population of 77,000, the largest of any ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original ... cities of northeast Russia, routed the Russians at the Sit' River, ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- At the end of the Second World War, the British and Russians experimented ... and twin torpedoes. It was sold to the Russians, but proved unstable, ran ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- without British military support. After the Russians sent an uninvited diplomatic mission to Kabul in 1878, tensions renewed and Britain demanded that ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- trading post two years prior. Though the Russians' initial assault (in ... across the Indian River at site of the Russians' landing. In September ...47 KB (7,545 words) - 03:50, 1 May 2023
- on speed and quickness was introduced by the Russians and Italians. The new focus on speed and the introduction of the electronic scoring machine ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- fighting the Poles, the Danes, the Swedes, the Russians of ancient Novgorod, and the Lithuanians (last Europeans to convert to Christianity). ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- always voted for freeing Hess while knowing the Russians would overrule it, but when Gorbachev came to power this became less likely, thus the "need ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- offensives were to be mounted by the Russians in the East, the Italians ... had to sustain operations against the French and Russians. ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- cultures from those of the dominant nations (Russians, Germans, Austrians, Turks, etc.). Patriotism, nationalism, revolution and armed struggle for independence ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Chinese tanks equipped with the 105 mm gun. The Russians have also displayed a similar if more advanced system in the Reflex. The system involves an ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- German scientists from being captured by the Russians. The scientific advisor to the Operation was the Dutch-American physicist Samuel Goudsmit, who ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- attempts to maintain scientific secrets from the Russians would be of little benefit to the U.S. since they would probably obtain such secrets anyway ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- Ukrainians but also Circassians, Russians, Belarusians and Poles, ... The Russians were defeated in 1662. The War for Ukraine ended with ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- of this theme, and was a prime example of what Russians call poshlost, characterized by banality and venality. ==Early life== Fyodor Sologub was ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
- streak in modern sports history. (In 2002, Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze were forced to share gold with Canadians Jamie Salé and ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- The arrival of the Russians on May 9 put an end to the constant nightmare. Once he was certain that his workers were out of danger, Schindler ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- include Hui Chinese, the Kirgiz, the Mongols, the Russians, the Xibes, the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Tatars, the Daurs, and the Manchus. ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- racist because of its connection with white Russians. James Cone admits that his interest in Marxism for social and economic change was renewed in the ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- Genovese, Tatars, Ottomans, and Russians. The oldest processed gold in the world, arguably left by Old Europeans, was found in Varna, and the ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- :6th – German and Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Russians retreat in panic, sacking the town of Tarnopol. Arrest of Bolshevik leaders ordered. ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- The Russian Civil War caused some 3 million Russians, Poles, and Germans to migrate out of the Soviet Union. World War II and decolonization also ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- by accepting ethnic minorities as Russians, he reversed his position. Weber advocated democracy as a means for selecting strong leaders. He viewed ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- Ukrainians but also Circassians, Russians, Belarusians and Poles, ... population, while most of remainder are Russians with small numbers of Belarusians ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- It’s A Wonderful Life to 200 million Russians who celebrated an American holiday tradition with the American people for the first time in Russian ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- By April, the whole battalion was captured by the Russians. After several months at the hospital, Broz was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- Limmat, attacked and totally defeated the Russians and their Austrian allies ... Limmat, attacked and totally defeated the Russians and their Austrian allies ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- polls indicate that a majority of Russians are pleased with the result of the individual aims of perestroika, Gorbachev's chief legislative ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- nations. The fur trade was also practiced by the Russians on the northwest coast of North America. After the French and Indian War, the British were ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- was to secure Hokkaidō before the Russians extended their control of the Far East beyond Vladivostok. Kuroda Kiyotaka was put in charge, and ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- Khwarizm. Timur supported Tokhtamysh against Russians and Tokhtamysh, with armed support by Timur, invaded Russia and in 1382 captured Moscow. After the ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин|p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- near dissolution, was coming to effect by the Russians declaration of war on April 24, 1877 and following Russian victory by February 1878. Abdul ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
