The spitzer space telescope was launched in 2003 and it was originally supposed to be a 2.5 year long mission but it is still orbiting in space now! Being made up of three low temperature science instruments. The spitzer telescope is an copper telescope that studies the early universe, young galaxies and forming stars, and is used to detect dust disks around stars, considered an important directory of planetary information. This mission was the fourth and final observatory under NASA’s Great Observatory
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Soviet-type socialism” (2). Pechatnov is justified in saying this as the Soviet Union’s system of command economics where the government controls all major aspects of economic production has some major flaws contributing to the economic inferiority of Russia to the USA. These limitations led to an increase in black markets which then led to problems such as loss of revenue for the government and created a lack of competition as there was no incentive for individuals to compete due to the governmental
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The cold war was an era of great tension between the United States and Russia spanning from 1947 to 1991 which caused many changes in our nation’s foreign policy and views of communism on the Homefront. Some of our nation’s most significant changes in foreign policy that shifted towards containment of communism include the creation of the Truman Doctrine, implication of the Marshal plan, creation of the NATO group, and the use of the CIA in espionage and ensuring the safety of the United States
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Since 1914, Germany had been fighting a two-front war. The eastern front was the war between Germany and Russia. By 1917, Tsar Nicholas II was in personal command of the army, since all his officers had deserted him. Russia’s involvement in World War I result in many causalities. Russia suffered heavy losses against Germany, offset partially by consistent victories against Austria-Hungary. The defeats on the battlefield led to growing dissatisfaction with the war. The people began to feel hostility
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Immigration Story Florentiy Lvovich Florentiy Lvovich was born on the 10th of June 1939 in Moscow, Russia. His father was one of the first Soviet engineers, working in a textile factory as one of the most important engineers who worked there. His father died in 1961 in Moscow. His mother also worked as an engineer in the same textile factory where her husband worked. She died in 1984 in Moscow. Florentiy had 3 brothers and 1 sister. His oldest brother, who was 14 years older than Florentiy, served
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The Red Square, a place of ceremonies and through the years, the scene of capital punishment, anarchy, shows, and speeches. In its early years, Red Square was home to a variety of salespeople, convicts, and drunks. The Red Square was known as a town of cabins, shacks and cots near the Kremlin. “As Muscovite power and wealth expanded by the late 1400’s, Prince Ivan III ordered the area now known as The Red Square- which at the time was a slum or shanty town housing poor peasants and criminals- cleared”
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Since its appearance on the radar of the western world, Russia has always presented a mystery to other nations. Winston Churchill famously described it as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” (Churchill). One particular period of interest in the tumultuous history of this enigmatic country: the Kievan Rus. To truly understand all the available points and facets of this period, one should examine how it came to be as well as the varying ideas and theories that have been formulated
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Hazel Treumann March 2, 2018 Period 9 Argumentative Essay: Breaking Stalin’s Nose Quickly pacing through the hallway, Sasha tries to protect the dominant banner. Slamming the banner into the statue, Sasha was suddenly filled with fear. Because he was given the great honor of carrying the statue, Sasha knew he was in deep trouble. The purpose of historical fiction books is to educate the reader about the past while using fictional characters. Breaking Stalin’s Nose achieves that goal as well
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The Russian Revolution of 1917: Guts over Fear The Russian Revolution was not only one revolution; it is a collective term for the tier of revolutions in Russia in 1917. The revolutions not only dismantled the Tsarist autocracy but also led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. The two revolutions swept through Russia and ended centuries of imperial rule and set in motion political and social changes that later led to the formation of the Soviet Union. The Emperor was forced to abdicate
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Russia’s Slow Industrialization Russia, the biggest country in the world, is located in northern Eurasia. During the period of both the Tsars’ and the Soviet Union’s rule, Russia was about 22,400,000 square kilometers big (Etty). It contains different kinds of landscape, such as steppe, mountains, semi- desert and etc. At the start of 19th century, Russia had the population of 125 million people. Russia has many natural resources, for example, coal, fuel, natural gas, oil, different kinds of metals
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