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The lieutenant general — the phrase meaning: rank, military rank of the highest officers in armed forces of a number of the states; the serviceman having a rank, a military rank "lieutenant general". For a number of power departments of ...

Imperial Derptsky university (with 1802), Imperial Yuryevsky university (with 1893) — one of the oldest universities of imperial Russia, nowadays Tartusky university in Estonia. The Yuryevsky university, former derptskiya, was founded ...

Robert John "Matt" Lang (English Robert John Mutt Lange, [læ ŋ]; sort. On November 16, 1948, Zambia) — the musical producer. Bryan Adams, Maroon 5, Shania Tveyn, Nickelback, Lady Gaga and Muse worked with Def Leppard, AC/DC, Britney Spear...

Gus-Khrustalny the area (earlier Gusevsky the area) — an administrative and territorial unit (area) and municipality (the municipal area) in the south of the Vladimir region Russia. Administrative center — the city of Gus-Khrustalny (isn'...

Filip Dzhindzherich (English Philip Derstine Gingerich; sort. On March 23, 1946, Goshen, Indiana, the USA) — professor of paleontology, professor of geological sciences, professor of biology, professor of anthropology, the director of the...

Cardboard (фр. carton, from ital. cartone, from carta — paper), the folder, polish (a thick, glossy cardboard, a Bristol cardboard, etc.) — the thickest paper, thickness sugar and wrapping. The clear boundary between paper and a cardbo...

Evangielista Torricelli (ital. Evangelista Torricelli; On October 15, 1608, Faentsa — on October 25, 1647, Florence) — the Italian mathematician and the physicist, the pupil Galilee. It is known as the author of the concept of atmospheric...

Alexander Aleksandrovich Panchenko (sort. On April 14, 1971, Leningrad, the USSR) — the Russian philologist and the specialist in folklore, the researcher of the Russian sectarian movements, national Orthodoxy and city folklore. Professor...

Rona Natascia Mitra (English Rhona Natasha Mitra, sort. On August 9, 1976, London, England) — the British actress, model and the singer. Works, mainly, in the USA, I gained the greatest fame as the actress of TV series. I was born in t...

Linux (/ˈlɪnəks/[ˈlɪnəks] or [ˈlɪnʊks]), Linux) — family of Unix-like operating systems on the basis of a kernel of Linux including this or that set of utilities and programs of the GNU project, and, perhaps, other components. As well as ...

Constitutional democratic party ("Party of National Freedom", "to. - party", "the constitutional democrats", "party of cadets", later "cadets") — large centrist political party in Russia at the beginning of the XX century. The decision...

Mikhail Vladimirovich Degtyaryov (sort. On July 10, 1981, Kuibyshev, RSFSR, the USSR) — the Russian state and political figure, the candidate on elections of the head of Samara (2006) and elections of the Mayor of Moscow (2013), the membe...

D12 (it is also known as D-Twizzy and Dirty Dozen) — American hip-hop group of Detroit, the State of Michigan. D12 headed charts of the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Russia. The group was created in 1996, but the true popularity reached...

Vagankovsky cemetery — one of the most extensive and popular Moscow cemeteries. It is located in northwest part of the city, near the square the Krasnopresnensky outpost on Sergey Makeev Street, 15. Occupies the space of 47,9 hectares. Th...