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111Fyodor Rostopchin — Count Fyodor Vasilievich Rostopchin ( ru. Фёдор Васильевич Ростопчин) (3.12(23).1763 1.18(30).1826) was a controversial Russian statesman. He appears as a character in Leo Tolstoy s War and Peace , in which he is presented very unfavorably.Fyodor …
112Georg von Cancrin — Count Yegor Frantsevich Kankrin (Russian: Егор Францевич Канкрин, 16 November, 1774 10 September, 1845) was born Ludwig Daniel von Cancrin in Hanau. He accompanied his father, the mineralogist Franz Ludwig von Cancrin, to Russia in 1797, joining… …
113Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov — Count Alexander Matveyevich Dmitriev Mamonov (Russian: Александр Матвеевич Дмитриев Мамонов, 30 September 1758 11 October 1803, buried in Donskoy Monastery) was a lover of Catherine II of Russia from 1786 to 1789.A scion of the Rurikid family… …
114half link — Every chain has rollers which are connected by side plates or keepers. When counting the number of links in a length of chain, it is easiest to count the number of side plates on one side of the chain and multiplying the number by two. When a… …
115calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …
116Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
117Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
118France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
119Austria — Austrian, adj., n. /aw stree euh/, n. a republic in central Europe. 8,054,078; 32,381 sq. mi. (83,865 sq. km). Cap.: Vienna. German, Österreich. * * * Austria Introduction Austria Background: Once the center of power for the large Austro… …
120Counting Single Transferable Votes — The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system based on proportional representation and preferential voting. Under STV, an elector s vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate. After candidates have been either… …
