albeit larger than life size scale), of a woman who might be “Mother Russia”. But if you then look south, down the main axis of the monument, your jaw will drop. The monument stretches over a distance of about half a kilometer. ...
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the present endemic population is restricted to Northern Canada and Greenland. In the last century, muskoxen have been reintroduced to Northern Quebec, Norway, Russia, Southwest Greenland, and Alaska (see Fig.1). The
and the lyrics for “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” became “I’m gonna save the world for Wall Street/Gonna fight for Russia, too/I’m fightin’ for democracy/I’m fightin’ for the Jew.” As for the smash hit “Little Sir Echo,” by the time Schwedler finished with it, it ...
(the idea of introducing a bovine model into the artist’s studio stems from Courbet, who brought a bull into his short-lived studio academy in the 1860s). Only at the very end of the 19th century, in the relatively liberated and open atmosphere of Repin’s studio and circle in Russia...
He announces that he is no longer at the university and does not know if he will ever be able to publish again, and that his two sons are prisoners in Russia. With the letter is a photograph of Heidegger, with the following dedication on the back: Für Alexander Dragomir zur Erinnerung ...
In a testament to his proximity to political power, Kurtyka died in April 2010 after the presidential plane in which he travelled with then Polish President Lech Kaczyński and several other high-level officials crashed on its way to a ceremony in Smolensk, Russia. For anticommunist entrepreneurs...
The stalked jellyfish (Staurozoa) is an extraordinary clade within medusozoan cnidarians in which the medusa is attached to the substrate unlike the pelagic jellyfishes which compose the rest of the medusozoans. Along with this remarkable feature, staurozoans are characterized by an extremely low...
Etkind revises Kant’s position vis-à-vis the European imperial hegemony. In the period when Königsberg changed hands between Prussia and Russia, he argues, Kant was a colonial subject. This unique subaltern experience helped him to formulate his ethical and political philosophy, including his ...
[27,30]. In Germany and Denmark, it has been known asTeufelrübeanddjævelroe‘devil’s turnip’, and in south Russia as паралисьзнаярепа ´paralysing turnip’, most probably referring to its toxicity [2,18,31]. Croatian names also refer to turnip, e.g.repa ...