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  • it broke up into eight separate khanates: Siberia Khanate, Qasim Khanate, ... the 1550s. By the end of the century the Siberia Khanate was also part of ...
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  • overran large parts of Russia, including Siberia, often called Tartary. Taking ... and Caucasians in the Caucasus. Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the Turkic ...
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  • Oirat princes fled north into southern Siberia seeking the protection of ... from their encampments in southern Siberia to the pasture lands off ...
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  • crane, spends the spring and summer in Siberia, where their eggs hatch ... population, which once nested in western Siberia and wintered in India, was ...
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  • ===Immigration to the Russian Far East and Siberia=== with Korea. Many peasants, considering Siberia a land with a better standard ...
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  • inland Norway, and Russia (especially Siberia), as well as parts of the ... on the northern hemisphere in eastern Siberia. The southernmost part of ...
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  • to the impact of large extraterrestrial object in Siberia and/or near Chesapeake Bay. The Oligocene-Miocene boundary is not set at an easily identified ...
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  • 000-year-old (or older) fossils found in Siberia. The fossils unearthed from ... 84°68′ E) in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, uncovered a small bone ...
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  • points to an East Asian base, probably in Siberia, as the origin for the Japanese ... second expansion from the area of Northern Siberia), which suggests geographical ...
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  • [[Image:Okhotsk from Siberia.jpg|thumb|250px|The north shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, from Magadanskaya Oblast, Siberia, 2008.]] [[Image:Okhotsk ...
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  • of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe, forest-steppe ... outburst floods in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. Boulder, Colo: Geological ...
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  • from Wales, in Alaska, to Cape Dezhneva, Siberia. The four expedition members ... of a bridge between Alaska and Siberia, or alternatively a tunnel ...
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  • held sway in some areas (especially Siberia, Ukraine and the Crimea ... the Czechoslovak Legions who were stuck in Siberia (local Bolshevik governments ...
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  • of the katorga system that operated in Siberia. During the leadership of ... forced labor camps (katorgas), operated in Siberia as a part of the penal system ...
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  • but including the easternmost portions of Siberia. They are culturally and ... the Yupik peoples—the Naukan of Siberia, the Yupik of Siberia in ...
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  • activities." He was sent to Kolyma in Siberia, also known as "the land of white death." He was already in jail awaiting sentencing ...
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  • After escaping exile in Siberia, where he was sent as punishment for ... and condemning him to life-long exile in Siberia, if he was ever captured ...
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  • shore is less than 40 miles from Siberia's Chukchi Peninsula. Many believe St. Lawrence Island is one of the last remaining non-submerged ...
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  • the mammoth period. the Chukchi people of Siberia may have migrated from the ... during summer. Dry and heated air from Siberia comes to the island periodically ...
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  • one or more large bolides (meteoroids) in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake ... one or more large bolides (in present day Siberia and Chesapeake Bay). Improved ...
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  • After his arrest and exile to Siberia, his work took a dramatic shift ... ===Exile in Siberia=== Dostoevsky was arrested and imprisoned on April ...
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  • may occur from several locations other than Siberia, notably Uruguay and Zambia. More recently, certain gems (usually of Bolivian origin) that have ...
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  • Bishkek is connected to the Turkestan-Siberia Railway by a spur. ... Moscow, and long-distance trains leave for Siberia (Novosibirsk and Novokuznetsk ...
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  • of White Army commander Kolchak's defeat in Siberia and Denikin's defeat in the south of Russia, they decided to flee Petrograd. On December ...
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  • Imperial Japanese Army to invade Russian Siberia, for the purpose of establishing ... there was an eventual invasion of Soviet Siberia, during which it would advance ...
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  • migrating to Korea from Manchuria and Siberia. That type of pottery typically ... from northeastern China as well as from Siberia and Scythian bronze styles ...
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  • and the adjacent region of southeastern Siberia across the Amur River. By ... ruled over Manchuria, southeastern Siberia, northern and central Han ...
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  • are common in Scandinavia, Patagonia, Siberia, and Canada. Among the most ... Valley lakes of eastern Africa and Lake Baikal in Siberia. ...
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  • Another part moved across southern Siberia to the southern Urals and ... Siberian rivers of Ob and Irtysh in southern Siberia. The Qing (or ...
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  • |langs= Yupik languages, English, Russian (in Siberia) |rels=Christianity ... to have their origin in eastern Siberia and Asia, arriving in the ...
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  • [[Image:Rika Tura.jpg|thumb|270px|The Tura River in Siberia, where ... Tobolsk guberniya (now Tyumen Oblast) in Siberia. He had two known siblings ...
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  • Vrubel was born in the Omsk, (Siberia), in a military lawyer's family. He graduated from the Law Faculty of St Petersburg University in ...
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  • over 1,300 miles between Alaska and Siberia. Anthropologists are not certain of their exact origins (Siberia or Subarctic) but most believe they ...
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  • anomalously high. Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia remained independent continents ... the Ordovician, the continents Laurentia, Siberia, and Baltica were still ...
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  • html#19 Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia and Far East: Nivkhi] Arctic Network for the Support of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian ...
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  • and tens of thousands were deported to Siberia. The price for suppression ... to death. Gesya Gelfman was sent to Siberia. The tsar was killed by ...
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  • northern forests) of Eurasia (Scandinavia to Siberia) and in North America. Both reindeer and caribou are the same species, but semi-domesticated, domesticated ...
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  • were found preserved in permafrost in a tomb in Siberia and dated to 600 C.E. For a long time, the economy of what is now Canada was based on ...
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  • and later to Porfiry. He is sentenced to Siberia where he apparently finally ... After his confession she follows him to Siberia where she lives in the same ...
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  • in the east; and to the Lena River in Siberia in the west. ... River in Canada to the Lena River in Siberia, usually in shorter coastal ...
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  • derived mostly from some males that arrived from Siberia, settled down, and mated with American black cuck ancestors (Kulikova et al. 2005). ...
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  • of Gondwana to the south, the continent of Siberia to the north, and the early formation of the small supercontinent of Euramerica in the middle. ...
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  • :* Picea obovata Siberian Spruce. North Scandinavia, Siberia. Often treated as a variant of P. abies (and hybridises with it) but distinct cones. ...
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  • Pazyryk Carpet was discovered in a frozen tomb in Siberia and has been dated between the sixth and third century B.C.E. Recovered ancient Egyptian ...
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  • steppes of Mongolia, as well as some parts of Siberia and China. They have a distinctive heart-shaped white patch on their rump area. The males have ...
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  • Legions overthrew Bolshevik rule in Siberia, Urals and the Volga region ... Volga-Kama region. However, most of the Siberia and Urals regions were controlled ...
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  • identify Shambala with certain valleys of southern Siberia. The 14th Dalai Lama has given many Kalachakra initiation ceremonies, which are intrinsically ...
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  • massif and associated ranges, and from eastern Siberia to Sakhalin Island and to Hokkaido Island in Japan. The steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) goes as ...
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  • sources are the Lake Baikal region of Russia, Siberia, Angola, Burma, Pakistan, United States (California and Colorado), Canada, and India. ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the punishment for which was exile to Siberia for life. The emergence of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, however, prevented his case ...
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  • in the Soviet Army were forcibly exiled to Siberia and Central Asia, where ... whose expansion into and exploration of Siberia was motivated primarily ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • translated into English as My Exile to Siberia (2 vols., 1855). ... * __________. My exile in Siberia. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1855. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • probably the same people who inhabited Siberia. Since few archaeological sites in this period have been found, little is known of the early ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • copper deposits in South Africa, Ontario, and Siberia. Although the proportion of palladium in the nickel-copper ores is low, the processing of large ...
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dimitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva). Mendeleev was the ...
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  • A bog is a freshwater wetland characterized by acidic peat deposits and by moisture provided by precipitation (rain and snow) rather than groundwater ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • were executed or forcibly resettled to Siberia, where a large portion were ... minorities were deported to Gulags in Siberia. Stalin also sent all Russian ...
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  • the Buryats living in Transbaikalia and Siberia (Subarkhan) continue to ... *Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam. Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of ...
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  • in parts of Africa, Scandinavia, Siberia, southwestern North America, and Australia. ==Technique== [[Image:Haljesta.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Composite ...
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  • Ryumin. Other Decembrists were exiled to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Far East. Suspicion also fell on several eminent persons who were on friendly ...
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  • *Khanty Ocean, the ocean between Baltica and Siberia. *Mirovia, the ... *Ural Ocean, the ocean between Siberia and Baltica. ==Extraterrestrial ...
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  • were sent to the Gulag labor camps in Siberia and elsewhere. The restrictions were loosened somewhat after Stalin's death in 1953 but the ...
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  • The development of the periodic table of the elements parallels the development of science and our understanding of the physical universe. It ...
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  • comprise some from mid-Cambrian deposits in Siberia and a few rare specimens from Cretaceous amber (Grimaldi and Engel 2005). The Siberian tardigrades ...
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  • who traveled to see him in Obdorsk, Siberia. At the same time, the ... * community leaders currently held in prison or in exile in Siberia ...
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  • that America could operate 1,000 bombers from Siberia after the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan (Vladivostok is in the Russian Far East, not ...
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  • their five children, were held captive in Siberia and executed on July 17, 1918. Many eggs were destroyed or confiscated at that time. Only ...
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  • and alpine regions of Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia; they are also native to Russia and the Baltic countries. The wolverine is ...
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  • Irkutsk, while his mother was traveling across Siberia to Vladivostok, where his father, a Red Army political commissar was stationed. Rudolf was raised ...
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  • over the vast region of Manchuria and parts of Siberia was overthrown by the Khitan invasion in 926, and the majority of its people came to Goryeo ...
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  • 1997. Shamanic worlds: rituals and lore of Siberia and Central Asia. Armonk, NY: North Castle Books. ISBN 1563249731 *Brent, Peter. The Mongol ...
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  • economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America. In recent centuries, fur farming, notably of ...
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  • by Alaska, on the west by Russia's Siberia and Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, and on ...
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  • Tsar of Astrakhan, King of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesos ... government moved them east to Tobolsk, in Siberia in August 1917. They remained ...
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  • activities in 1897 and 1900, sent to Siberia, but escaped both times. He then went to Berlin, before returning to participate in the failed 1905 ...
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  • garnet of this composition that is found in Siberia. Other shades include cinnamon brown (cinnamon stone variety), red, and yellow. Because of its inferior ...
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  • Astana (Kazakh: Астана; former names include Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpg|thumb|300px|Solzhenitsyn in 1974]] Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр ...
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  • A Fabergé egg is considered to be any one of the sixty-nine [https://www.wintraecken.nl/mieks/faberge/eggs/eggs.htm List of Fabergé eggs] Mieks ...
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  • Natan Sharansky ( נתן שרנסקי , Натан Щаранский , born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky Анатолий Борисович ...
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  • forcibly deported either to labor camps or Siberia, where half of them perished; ... studying early historical sites in Siberia are contributing much to ...
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  • Dersu Uzala, made in the Soviet Union and set in Siberia in the early twentieth century, was the only Kurosawa film made outside Japan and not in Japanese ...
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  • The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 between Subutai's reconnaissance unit and the combined ...
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  • Soviet occupying powers suffered either death in Siberia (Talvik and playwright Hugo Raudsepp) or a combination of repression, a ban on publication ...
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  • what is now the U.S. The elk of southern Siberia and central Asia were once ... * Jacobson, E. The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia: A Study in the ...
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  • he was sent on a recital tour of small towns in Siberia. Rostropovich emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974 with his wife and children, settling ...
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  • B.C.E. and was discovered in a frozen tomb in Siberia.[http://www.houseofpersianrugs.com/education/paz/Pazyryk.htm Pazyryk Carpet.] House of Persian ...
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  • Image:Gorskii_03965u.jpg|Windmills of Western Siberia, taken by Prokudin-Gorskii, c. 1910 Image:KinderdijkMolens klein.jpg|The windmills of Kinderdijk ...
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  • closely related snow sheep (O. nivicola) of Siberia. Another group is more closely related to domestic sheep and includes the Asiatic mouflon (O. orientalis ...
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  • plotted to assassinate Stalin. He hid himself in Siberia until 1940, when he joined the Red army. He took part in World War II as a tank driver and a ...
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  • the city by mountains from extremely cold air from Siberia. The average maximum daytime temperature in January of 44.6°F (7°C), rising to an average ...
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  • to populate Eastern Russia, Central Asia, and Siberia. Other diasporas have occurred as people fled ethnically directed persecution or oppression: ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Pravda Adolf Hitler.jpg|thumb|right|]] Pravda (Правда, "The ...
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  • and some industrialized parts of Siberia and the Ural region. However, Tula retained its leading role in this trade. By that time, four shapes ...
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