Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Museum of Florida History is the U.S. state of Florida's history museum, housing exhibits and artifacts covering its history and prehistory. It is located in the state capital, Tallahassee, Florida, at the R. A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, [1] named for Robert Andrew Gray. A mastodon skeleton on display at the Museum of ...
During the Kalmyk deportations of 1943, codenamed Operation Ulussy (Операция "Улусы"), the deportation of most people of the Kalmyk nationality (as well as Russian women married to Kalmyks, but not Kalmyk women married to people of other nationalities) in the Soviet Union (USSR), around half of all (97–98,000) Kalmyk people ...
In 2020, the murder rate in Russia was 4.7 per 100,000 people, according to Rosstat (the Russian Federal State Statistics Service). [2] According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the homicide rate was 7.3 in 2020 compared to 10.9 in 2016, a significant decrease over the previous 20 years (in 2000, the homicide rate was 28.1), and only slightly higher than the United ...
Last battle of the Russo-Kazan Wars where the forces of Tsar Ivan IV (The Terrible) besieged the city of Kazan and killed the city's population once taken. Massacre of Novgorod: 1570 Novgorod: 2,000-15,000 Attack launched by Tsar Ivan IV (The Terrible)'s oprichniki on the city of Novgorod, Russia. Fire of Moscow (1571) May 1571 Moscow, Russia ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Vodka is Russia's national alcoholic drink, and the country leads the world in vodka consumption per capita, and so Russians are viewed as drinking vodka on a daily basis or in heavy doses. [3] Vodka has been blamed for 8,000 alcohol related deaths in Russia. [4]
It is the oldest museum in Pinellas County. [2] The mission of the museum is to collect, preserve, and communicate the history and heritage of Florida with an emphasis on St. Petersburg and the Pinellas peninsula. [2] The museum hosts a variety of traveling exhibits, evening events, guest speakers, and more.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia lowered flags to half-mast on Sunday for a day of mourning and swiftly charged two suspects after gunmen killed scores of people at a concert outside Moscow in the ...