Once the Arctic Ocean is free of ice, all heat absorbed by the water will go to raising the temperature of the water, some of which will then escape to the atmosphere, warming the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean, and further warming the land areas surrounding the Arctic Ocean. A third f...
Map created by Wikimedia user Alphathon, click for larger versionThe map above is written in German and shows the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of the
Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan, as well as the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union before Tajikistan's independence. The mountain is named after Ismail Samani, a ruler of the Samanid dynasty. It is located in the Pamir Range....
arriving due to a number of factors, including a strong domestic economy and pogrom outbreaks of violence against Jews in the Russian Empire, says Vincent Cannato, associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of American Passage: The History of Ellis ...
Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city, high in the Andes of Peru. At 2,430 metres above sea level, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is often referred to as “The Lost City of the Incas”, is one of the most familiar symbols of the Incan Empire, and is one of the most...
It will be of interest to those researching the development of the Russian energy sector and issues of energy security and energy policy. For students of economics and political science at the undergraduate level the book will augment and complement the core materials in their courses on energy ...
Russian Empire predates Soviet Union. This is when real Russian expansion took place. In fact, Soviet Union conceded some of the Russian Empire land grabs: Finland, Poland, parts of Turkey. This is barely compensated by taking East Prussia from Germany, South Sakhalin and few tiny islands from...
Unlike America, Russians have a reputation for tolerating appalling casualty figures — and yet the war in Afghanistan destroyed the Soviet Empire. Which only proves that crude number comparisons explain nothing at all in warfare today, particularly when that war is an...
She just refused to comply and get out of the way of Hillary and magically became a Russian Asset. It’s unreal. The idea, I suppose, is to make liberals, regular normal people, afraid of stepping out of line because they’ll be smeared as right-wing or worse. But we all know the...
It’s not just that it is chronologically the earliest of what we’ve called second-order regimes of domination; aside from the much later Inca Empire, it’s also just about the only case where the two principles that came together were sovereignty and administration. In other words, it’s...