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Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)
Kyiv, labelled Kiou, in a detail of Ortelius's 1562 map "Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio" (Description of Rus, Muscovy, and Tartary). Kyiv became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471 ...
Kyiv hosts many universities, the major ones being Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, [141] the National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", [142] Kyiv-Mohyla Academy [143] and the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. Of these, the Mohyla Academy is the oldest, founded as a theological school in 1632, but ...
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
KyivNotKiev is an online campaign to persuade English-language media and organizations to exclusively use Kyiv (derived from the Ukrainian-language ' Київ ') instead of Kiev (derived from the Russian-language ' Киев ') as the name of the Ukrainian capital.
Satellite images showed a Russian military convoy north of Ukraine's capital that stretched for about 40 miles. On Tuesday, a television tower was hit. 'Better to die than become a part of Russia ...
1939 - Staff of the Consulate of Poland in Kyiv arrested by the Soviets following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. [23] 1940 - Soviet executions of Polish officers and intelligentsia during the Katyn massacre. [24] German troops entering Kyiv in 1941. 1941 22 June: German invasion of the Soviet Union starts, with Kyiv ...
As Russian troops draw closer to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv's mayor is both filled with pride over his citizens' spirit and anxious about how long they can hold out. In an interview with The ...