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…not know what I was or going to be. But once in middle school I told my teacher I was a Russian dog. She called my parents and boy was I in deep dog doodoo. 13) In the Christian religion we pray to saints do you ever pray to “saints?” Yes, I pray…

…administration and also organized the first standing army in Europe. As the Ottoman Empire began to collapse under its own weight in the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a battleground for rival European powers, wedged as it was between the Russian and Austrian…

…a member of the Russian elite. After an evening at a friend's, he learns the story of an old countess who is known to hold an invincible secret at playing cards. This Countess resides with her niece, Lisa. Hermann decides to manipulate Lisa and allows her…

…, or EVA (extravehicular activity), was made back in 1965 by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Since Leonov's historic 10-minute space walk from his Voskhod spacecraft, space walks have become a more common feature of shuttle and Mir space station mission…

…controls the people. In October, 1962, these two types of government collided, spawning the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Russians spent an undisclosed amount of money on offensive and defensive military equipment that was shipped to Cuba (Almasi). This must have…

…is going on Napoleon has taken control and is ready for any objections. Napoleon eventually gains total power and symbolizes a despotic ruler. In this book Napoleon represents 'Stalin and his counterpart in the Russian Revolution. Napoleon always has to have…

…casualties. One man, Vassilli Zaitsev, changed the tide of the war. This sharp-shooter can single-handedly take out various enemy soldiers with his sniper rifle. After word got out of this young Russian, people started to believe in victory. They said "Yes, we can…

…of all his succeeding life. Only this couple months reversal his life from ordinary high school student, future coalminer to "Rocket boy", future NASSA engineer. His life was changed by Russian Sputnik, which overpowered in the sky above his town…

…In George Orwell's Animal Farm, power and control of the farm shifts from Mr. Jones to Snowball and from Snowball to Napoleon. Each, no matter how well their leadership, was corrupted by power in some way as compared to Russian leaders of the time…

…army was stopped its tracks by the onset of a vicious Russian winter. Temperatures dropped to 31 degrees below zero that day, and the next day to 36 below. The Germans were not equipped with winter gear, the panzers (Fast German tanks) broke down…