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Fort Ross was founded by the Russian-American Company in 1812. Most of the Fort's buildings are reproductions. Most of the Fort's buildings are reproductions. The one original structure remaining from the Russian settlement, the commander's house, is a National Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places .
The present name of Fort Ross [5] appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. [6] The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...
[33] An 1816 report by the Russian-American Company's Board of Directors said that it was establishing a settlement to introduce agriculture.(page 33, After December 16, 1813: A report to Emperor Alexander I from the Russian American Company Council, concerning trade with California and the establishment of Fort Ross) [34] Before establishing a ...
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Brigadier General Nibal Madhat Badr is a former Syrian army officer during Ba'athist Syria.. Badr is originally from the port city of Tartus. [1] On 1 July 2017 she was appointed to the rank of Brigadier General and became the first female general officer in the Syrian Armed Forces.
Exactly 1,000 days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighboring nation, Ukrainian forces fired eight U.S.-made ATACMS missiles into Russian territory on Tuesday, U.S. officials ...
The fort was used in the 12th and 13th century, and would later turn into a small castle. C. 110 bone fragments with graffiti have been found and they include inscriptions and pictures of warriors and weapons. The runic-like inscriptions are only three to six letters long and some can be interpreted.
In January 2007, Artistic Media Partners, Inc. agreed to sell WSHY and sister station WBTU (93.3 FM) to entrepreneur Russ Oasis, for $3.8 million. When the deal was made, it flipped formats to Regional Mexican as 106.3 "El Sol" (Sol is Spanish for "sun") under a local marketing agreement that was approved and took effect on March 6, 2007.