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He dressed head to toe in appare Neil Alden Armstrong August 5, — August 25, was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. A graduate of Purdue University, Armstrong studied aeronautical engineering with his college tuition paid for by the U. Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in , and a naval aviator the following year. In September , he was hit by anti-aircraft fire while making a low bombing run, and was forced to bail out.
He was also a participant in the U. Air Force's Man in S Within the lyrics, the narrator expresses great happiness on returning home, where "the Ukraine girls really knock me out" and the "Moscow girls make me sing and shout". The song opens the double-disc album The Beatles also known as the "White Album" and crossfades into "Dear Prudence". Propelled throughout by McCartney's uptempo piano playing and Harrison's lead guitar riffs,[4][5] the lyrics tell of the singer's great happiness on returning home, where "the Ukraine girls really knock me out" and the "Moscow girls make me sing and shout" and are invited to "Come and keep y Life and work Vejvoda was born and died in Zbraslav.
He learned to play the fiddle and flugelhorn in a band led by his father. Later he played these instruments in a military band. He started to compose in the s while he worked as a bartender in a pub owned by his father-in-law. This catchy tune became a hit and allowed Vejvoda to pursue music as a full-time professional.
Draughts British English or checkers[2] American English is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque. From the standard starting position, both players can guarantee a draw with perfect play. General rules Draughts is played by two opponents, on opposite sides of the gameboard. One player has the dark pieces; the other has the It was established on September 9, In and , the last two years of the Second World War the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held.
Instead, in the ceremony was held twice: The Soviet Navy Russian: The influence of the Soviet Navy played a large role in the Cold War , as the majority of conflicts centered on naval forces. The Soviet Navy was divided into four major fleets: The Caspian Flotilla was a smaller force operating in the land-locked Caspian Sea. After the dissolution of the Soviet Un The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles, as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.
Despite such background politics, to the Chinese public Mao Zedong proposed a belligerent attitude towards capitalist countries, an initial rejection of the Soviets' peaceful-coexistence policy, which he perceived as Marxist revisionism by the Russians. The history of the Soviet Union between and covers the period in Soviet history from establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in He sought to destroy his enemies while transforming Soviet society with aggressive economic planning, in particular a sweeping collectivization of agriculture and rapid development of heavy industry.
Stalin consolidated his power within the party and the state and fostered an extensive cult of personality. Soviet secret-police and the mass-mobilization Communist Party served as Stalin's major tools in molding Soviet society. Stalin's brutal methods in achieving his goals, which included party purges, political repression of the general population, and forced collectivization, led to millions of deaths: It was first shown in from January 24 to May 8 at the New York MoMA, then toured the world for eight years to record-breaking audience numbers.
List of The Man from U. Contact us for rights and issues inquiries. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Less than a quarter century later the Soviet Union not only had official relations with the majority of the nation-states of the world, but had progressed to the role of a superpower. Planners regarded collectivization as the solution to the crisis of agricultural distribution mainly in grain deliveries that had developed from He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery and had a big interest in chess problems.
According to Steichen, the exhibition represented the "culmination of his career. It was first presented there in after restoration of the prints. In , the mansion became the property of the liberal statesman and jurist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and as such the house hosted many important political meetings, including the final session of the National Congress of Zemstvos It was also in this mansion that novelist Vladimir Nabokov was born in Currently, the first floor of the house contains the Nabokov Museum, dedicated to the author's life.
History of the House V. Nabokov who became owner of the house in As such it hosted many important political meetings. It is a medium to large townhouse, built in the 19th century, in the Neo-Renaissance style for the Polovtsev family. Between and the October Revolution the house was the property of the liberal statesman and jurist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, who had obtained it as a dowry of Elena Rukavishnikova. He was the father of Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. He was murdered in Berlin on 28 March by far-right Russian monarchists. Early life Nabokov was born in Tsarskoe Selo, into a wealthy and aristocratic family.
He studied criminal law at the University of St.
Petersburg and taught criminology at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence. Nabokov married Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova in with whom he had five children. Their eldest son was the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed Role in the founding of the UN The Soviet Union took an active role in the United Nations and other major international and regional organizations. From the creation in to , there was a Western majority in the UN. Other nations joining the UN were limited. The new states were often just beginning to understand what is their own st Den lille havfrue is a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul.
The tale was first published in and has been adapted to various media, including musical theatre, anime and a Disney animated film. Plot summary The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father the sea king or Mer-King , her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. When a mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world one at a time every year.
As each returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human beings. When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celeb Hezbollah has the armed strength of a medium-sized army. In , Jane's assessed that Hezbollah had more than 25, full-time fighters and perhaps 20,—30, reservists. Hezbollah's military budget runs about one billion dollars per year. The group's strategy against Israel uses rockets as offensive weaponry combined with light infantry and anti-arm Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub ; Uzbek Cyrillic: She starred in the Yahoo!
Screen series Other Space. Wikispecies has information related to Nabokovia Nabokovia is a Neotropical genus of butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of Vladimir Nabokov, who extensively studied the Polyommatinae subfamily. It began during and was part of the first five-year plan.
The policy aimed to consolidate individual landholdings and labour into collective farms: The Soviet leadership confidently expected that the replacement of individual peasant farms by collective ones would immediately increase the food supply for the urban population, the supply of raw materials for processing industry, and agricultural exports.
Planners regarded collectivization as the solution to the crisis of agricultural distribution mainly in grain deliveries that had developed from In , Sater agreed to cooperate with investigators into international money laundering schemes. He has a sister, Regina. The family emigrated to Israel when Felix w They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country, and the only Summer Games to be held in such a country until in Beijing, China.
Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games — the smallest number since Led by the United States at the insistence of U. President Jimmy Carter, 66 countries boycotted the games entirely because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Some athletes from some of the boycotting countries they are not inclu Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 , first satellite Sputnik 1 , first animal in Earth orbit the dog Laika on Sputnik 2 , first human in space and Earth orbit cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 , first woman in space and Earth orbit cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6 , first spacewalk cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2 , first Moon impact Luna 2 , first image of the far side of the moon Luna 3 and unmanned lunar soft landing Luna 9 , first space rover Lunokhod 1 , first sample of lunar soil automatically extract His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.
Hanssen was born in Chicago. His father, a police officer, was emotionally abusive to him during his childhood. In Hanssen married his wife Bonnie, a strict Roman Catholic. He converted to Catholicism and became heavily involved in the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei.
He hovered between varying academic pursuits and jobs before joining the FBI in Three years after joining, Hanssen approached the Soviet GRU to offer his services, launching his first espionage cycle which lasted until Hanssen restarted his espionage activities in and contin He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.
Vostok 1 was his only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash. Gagarin later served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was subsequently named after him.
Gagarin died in when the MiG training jet he was piloting crashed. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honor. Early life and education Yuri Gagarin was born 9 March in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk renamed Gagarin in after his death. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series. Released nineteen years after the previous film, the film is set in , pitting Indiana Jones Harrison Ford against Soviet agents—led by Irina Spalko Cate Blanchett —searching for a telepathic crystal skull.
The filmmakers intended to pay tribute to the science fiction B-movies of the s era. To maintain aesthetic continuity with the p In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Finland into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries.
Germany invaded Poland on 1 September Stalin waited until 17 September before launching his own invasion of Poland. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Es He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature. Life He was born to a Kyrgyz father and Tatar mother. Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker.
In his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in The future author studied at a Soviet school in Sheker.
He also worked from an early age. At fourteen he was an assistant to the Secretary at the Village Soviet. He later held jobs as a tax collector, a loader, an engineer's assistant and continued with many other types of work. In he began studying at the Animal Husbandry Division of the Ki Tsentral'noye televideniye SSSR; abbr. Initially, the service was operated, together with the national radio service, by the Ministry of Culture. Later it was operated by the Gosteleradio committee, under the Communications Ministry and the Information and Press Ministry, and later a Council of Ministers-controlled network of television and radio broadcasting.
Radio was the dominant medium in the former Soviet Union, however, in the s preparations for television were in full swing. On 1 October , the first television sets were made available to the public The term refers to two related genres: Easterns Osterns , set usually on the steppes or Asian parts of the USSR, especially during the Russian Revolution or the following Civil War, but presented in a style inspired by American western films.
Henry first published in The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony.
It was first published in book form in the O. Arvydas Romas Sabonis Lithuanian pronunciation: Recognized as one of the best European players of all time, he won the Euroscar six times, and the Mr. Playing the center position, Sabonis won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics, in South Korea, for the Soviet Union, and later earned bronze medals at the Olympic Games and Olympic Games, while representing Lithuania.
He retired from professional basketball in Sabonis is considered one of the best big man passers, as well as one of the best overall centers, in the history of the game. Russian humour gains much of its wit from the inflection of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations.
As with any other culture's humour, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and wordplay to political satire. Typical of Russian joke culture is a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots and plays on words. Jews Jewish humor is a highly developed subset of Russian humor, largely based on the Russian Jews' self-image. These Jewish anecdotes are not the same as anti-Semitic jokes.
As some Jews say themselves, Jewish jokes are being made by either anti-Semites or the Jews themselves. Instead, whether told by Jews or non-Jewish Russians, these jokes show cynicism, self-irony, and wit that is characteristic of Jewish humor both in Russia and elsewhe In the new government formed the Red Army, which then defeated its various internal enemies in the Russian Civil War of — The years —21 saw defeats for the Red Army in the Polish—Soviet War —21 and in independence wars for Estonia —20 , Latvia —20 and Lithuania — Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik Russian: Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few players who achieved distinction in another career while playing top-class competitive chess.
He was also a pioneer of computer chess.
Botvinnik was the first world-class player to develop within the Soviet Union, putting him under political pressure but also giving him considerable influence within Soviet chess. From time to time he was accused of using that influence to his own advantage, but the evidence is unclear and some suggest he resisted attempts by Soviet officials to intimidate some of his rivals. Botvinnik also played a major role in the organization of chess, making a significant contribution to the design of the World Chess Championship system after World War II and becomin The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for samozashchita bez oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defence without weapons".
Sambo is relatively modern, since its development began in the early s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand-to-hand combat abilities.
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays is a collection of four dramas by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, first published in The plays were collected. Vladimir Nabokov (), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's.
The pioneers of sambo were Viktor Spiridonov and Vasili Oshchepkov. Oshchepkov died in prison as a result of the Great Purge after being accused of being a Japanese spy. Western Bloc led by the USA and its allies. Non-Aligned and neutral countries. It's an interesting comparison with The Event written in the late 30s , as in the former you see some uncertain ea The four stars are mainly for The Event, which takes up about half the book. It's an interesting comparison with The Event written in the late 30s , as in the former you see some uncertain early steps, while in the latter you see a genius whose powers are in full bloom.
The two short verse dramas also predating Mary don't really do it for me, but the essays are enjoyable. Aug 03, Christopher Sutch rated it liked it. I know he thought he could do it all, but he never really had a good grasp of the art of playwriting, let alone the translation of text into the visual realm of the theater. This volume contains four plays. The title play and two short verse dramas are very early works from the mids and can be dismissed as youthful experiments. I base this conclusion on the two essays on theater also contained in this volume, based on lectures Nabokov gave at Stanford, in which he is generally grumpy and pessimistic about the modern theater for instance, he deplores the breaking of the fourth wall: Finally, the introductions to the pieces, written by Nabokov's son and translator Dmitri, reveal the son to be even more reactionary and ridiculous than his father in many matters his deploring of the "new" violence in drama and on screen, for instance, is based on a misreading of Nabokov's second essay in this volume on Tragedy.
Feb 18, Roxana rated it liked it Shelves: Nabokov is a better writer of novels and short stories than of theatrical prose, but these are really interesting reads - particularly the brief, lovely The Grand-dad though it would read better as a short story than a theatre piece -- I can't imagine anything being gained by performance , and certain moments of The Event the absurd private eye and the metatheatrical moments, along with the truly Nabokovian ending, are marvelous.
Still, if you're not already a fan, these plays won't make a go Nabokov is a better writer of novels and short stories than of theatrical prose, but these are really interesting reads - particularly the brief, lovely The Grand-dad though it would read better as a short story than a theatre piece -- I can't imagine anything being gained by performance , and certain moments of The Event the absurd private eye and the metatheatrical moments, along with the truly Nabokovian ending, are marvelous. Still, if you're not already a fan, these plays won't make a good introduction to his work.
The accompanying essays, from Nabokov's own lectures on theatre, are similarly interesting but not entirely in the way he meant. Mostly they read like a grumpy old man deploring anything newfangled and modern, but what's really of interest in them is the fact that, while one of the best things about The Event is the porous, malleable fourth wall that allllmost is broken A worthwhile read for a Nabokov fan, but if you're only going to read one or two or ten pieces of his writing, opt for the non-theatre pieces.
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