1.(Placename) a republic in NW Asia: the region was acquired by Russia from Persia in the early 19th century; became the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936 and gained independence in 1991; consists of dry subtropical steppes around the Aras and Kura rivers, surrounded by the Caucasus...
The first successful mission was the 1964 trip by the Mariner 4, a United States craft that returned 21 images of the planet. From then on, the United States, the former USSR, Japan and the European Space Agency have all launched missions to the planet Mars. In the following sections, we...
In this way, it's the antithesis of communism, which abolishes class distinctions. Fascists believes that clearly divided classes are necessary to avoid any hint of chaos, which is a threat to the State. The State's power depends on the maintenance of a class system in which every person ...
Sony readers supported BBeB until 2010 after which this format was replaced by EPUB (a format that was initially released in 2007). On the ebook distribution side, Sony and some large Japanese publishers created a joint venture called “Publishing Link” where users could purchase books from the...
It was assumed that, other conditions being constant, the diffusion effect would be proportional to the surface area of the specimen immersed in the liquid. For this purpose, the surfaces of the specimens, in the stressed state, were arbitrarily divided up into a free surface and a nonworking...
Eventually, the Rubik’s cube fell out of popularity in the United States and many other western countries; however,it remained popular in China and what was then the USSR because the trend had picked up later in Communist countries around the world. The popularity of the cubes in Communist ...
Ironically, in this pre-globalization era, there was more genuine cross-cultural fertilization in Europe than there is today, when globalization too often means Americanization. Millions of people across the continent bought the song which only came third for Italy in the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest...
A key component of Obama’s rise to power is rooted in Chicago, the Jewish breeding ground of Obama’s political career. A prime Jewish patron of Obama’s political ambitions was and remains, Abner Mikva, former Chicago Congressman, Federal judge and White House counsel to Bill Clinton. Mikva...
What is the Korean Demilitarized Zone? World War II devastated not just Japan, but the Korean Peninsula, and in 1945, the United States and the USSR captured the peninsula and ended Japanese rule there. Korea was divided into two occupation zones that were intended to be temporary. However, ...
"The Russians were always concerned about how far NATO enlargement was going to go. It's one thing for Poland to come in, or the Czech Republic to come in. That's not such a big deal. But there was always a ...