Papers 2721-2730 of total 5282 found.
Category: /Literature/English
…later because she could now express herself by broken English. <Tab/>Anzia Yezierska was born in 1883 at Russia. She was Russian, and she immigrated to United States as a young girl. Like other immigrants who lived in New York, her family lived…
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…. In contrast, Stalin was by necessity interested in European affairs, but only to the point of concern to the USSR. Russian foreign policy was fundamentally Leninist in its concern to keep the USSR out of war. Stalin wanted to consolidate Communist power…
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…Alliance. After Bismarck was fired in 1890, his successors could not keep up his strong alliances. France saw this opportunity, and in 1891, formed the Franco-Russian Entente. It became a formal alliance three years later. From 1902 to 1907, Britain formed…
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…that Russian secret service, the KGB, had a report of the Manhattan project, the secret plan of the USA to develop the atomic bomb. (search.epnet.com) It was written by Klaus Fuchs, brilliant physicist of German origin that worked in the project of Los Alamos, New…
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…the Russians and Turks went at it, and Russians with Polish Catholics, and finally, British and Spanish. According to one of the books that I read, Muslims didn't have the same zeal as Christians had. So, it was Spanish Catholics and British Protestants…
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…and Russian emperors in 1872 called the Dreikaiserbund (the league of three emperors). In 1879 Germany formed another alliance secretly with Austria to gain an ally that shared a border and three years later were joined by Italy to form the triple alliance…
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…and in the long run. In 1994, the price of aluminum plummeted; because of a global slowdown in the growth of demand for aluminum, mainly due to new soda can design which used substantially less aluminum, and the cutback in aluminum used for producing Russian military…
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Category: /History
…with Russian officials on sharing information about each other's military bases and arsenals in order to ease the tensions of The Cold War. The Russians disagreed, but the meeting still ended on a positive note, despite their refusal. <Tab/>In 1956…
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…not defeat the Magyars, the emperor asked help from the Russians, a foreign nation without much to do with the revolutions. The Russians, however, agreed to help, and crushed the insurgency with a formidable force of 140,000 men. This brings us to our next…
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….' Nadsat has chiefly Russian origins. Many of the words were chosen because of their forceful sound, as a symbol of the attitude of the nadsats, or teens. For example, 'grahzny bratchny' sounds much more harsh than 'dirty bastard,' although one is a literal…
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