The reasons behind celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23 are unclear, as the date does not coincide with any historical event. Russia first celebrated this day in 1922 as the fourth anniversary of the Red Army. However, Russian leader Vladimir Lenin signed a decree for the ...
Groundhog Day: Directed by Harold Ramis. With Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky. A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
(most likely from German) all derive from Gaius Julius Caesar’s cognomen. Likewise, in the Slavic languages, terms such as the Czech “Car” and the Russian term “Царь,”“Tsar,” derive from Caesar, as do the words for “emperor” in Macedonian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovenian. ...
Military parades were held in 28 Russian cities to mark the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) against Nazi Germany, an integral part of World War II. The Soviet Union lost roughly 27 million people, both soldiers and civilians, according to official statistics.■ Veterans attend ...
"Russian security forces arrested a man who tried to hijack a plane," 俄罗斯安全部队抓获了一名企图劫持飞机的男子。 "Hackers hijacked the accounts of nearly one million users from the social networking website," 电脑黑客从这个社交网站上劫持了将近一百万个...
Phillip the Fair, King of Spain – where Jews had been expelled in 1492. Phillip’s mother was Marie of Burgundy. In this case the Jews merely seemed to have gotten caught up in the dynastic swirl that was so much of European History prior to the French Revolution. ...
The history of Poland Independence Day can be traced back to November 11, 1918, when Józef Piłsudski assumed control of a newly sovereign Polish government following the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires in the aftermath of World War I. As a member of the Europe...
Russian officials routinely bristle at criticism of the Red Army's actions in the war, denouncing the comments as attempts to “rewrite history.” An online substitute for the processions took place Saturday, showing streams of photos of veterans submitted by relatives. A full military parade of...
The famous ‘Bastille day 2000’ flare is still one of the best examples of a solar flare which was well observed by several space- and ground-based observatories and studied in detail extensively by many researchers. The modern observations of the Sun i