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The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
With surplus food stocks created by agricultural development, creation of distinct worker classes and a division of labor would automatically trigger creation of the state form. [ 65 ] A third voluntary hypothesis, particularly common with some explanations of early state development, is that long distance trade networks created an impetus for ...
In the spring of 1916 the King proclaimed Andrija Radović as prime minister, but he resigned a few months after his proposal of union with Serbia was rejected. He created in 1917 the National Committee for Unification with Serbia, which found support from Nikola Pašić's Serbian Government. In 1918 the Allies took control of Montenegro and ...
Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. [4] [5] [6] Volcanic outgassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen. Much of Earth was molten because of frequent collisions with other ...
[2] [3] The first summit in 2009 featured the founding countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, where they co-opted the name BRIC and formed an informal diplomatic club [4] where their governments could meet annually at formal summits and coordinate multilateral policies. [5] [6] In April 2010, South Africa attended the 2nd BRIC summit as ...
Theia, an ancient planet, collided with Earth to form the moon, scientists believe. A new study suggests Theia could have also formed mysterious blobs called large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs.
The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was deutsche.wikipedia.com (created on Friday 16 March 2001, 01:38 UTC), [47] followed after a few hours by catalan.wikipedia.com (at 13:07 UTC). [48] The Japanese Wikipedia, started as nihongo.wikipedia.com, was created around that period, [49] [50] and initially used only Romanized Japanese.
A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath. Natural arches commonly form where inland cliffs, coastal cliffs, fins or stacks are subject to erosion from the sea, rivers or weathering (subaerial processes).