Kremlin - Kremlin Kremlin is the Russian word for "citadel" and can refer to any major fortified complex found in Russian cities, but it is used almost exclusively for the Kremlin Palaces and Kremlin Cathedrals overlooking Red Square in Moscow. History The site orginates from the first settlements in the area on Borovitsky Hill where the Neglinnaya River flowed into the Moskva River. From the 11th century there was a significant fortified structure on the hill. The city was greatly extended by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky in the 12th century. The fortress was named the Kremlin in 1331. Between 1366-1368, during the rule of Dmitri Donskoi, a white-stone citadel was constructed. By the 15th century the principalities of Russia were united under Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow, who.
Kremlin, Montana - Kremlin, Montana Kremlin is a town located in Hill County, Montana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 126. Geography \nKremlin is located at 48°34'17" North, 110°5'9" West (48.571398, -110.085927)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.2 km˛ (0.4 mi˛). 1.2 km˛ (0.4 mi˛) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 126 people, 47 households, and 35 families residing in the town. The population density is 108.1/km˛ (277.8/mi˛). There are 57 housing units at an average density of 48.9/km˛ (125.7/mi˛). The racial makeup of the town is 99.21% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific.
Kremlin, Oklahoma - Kremlin, Oklahoma Kremlin is a town located in Garfield County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 240. Geography \nKremlin is located at 36°32'52" North, 97°49'56" West (36.547642, -97.832236)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 km˛ (0.2 mi˛). 0.6 km˛ (0.2 mi˛) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 240 people, 98 households, and 72 families residing in the town. The population density is 370.7/km˛ (949.9/mi˛). There are 112 housing units at an average density of 173.0/km˛ (443.3/mi˛). The racial makeup of the town is 95.00% White, 1.67% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.42%.
Kremlin Colonel - Kremlin Colonel The Kremlin Colonel is a cocktail made from vodka, mint leaves, lime juice, and sugar syrup..
Arsenal (Kremlin) - Arsenal (Kremlin) A pretty big triangular building close to the edge of Moscow's Kremlin that faces the red square (the top of the building features a pole with a Russian flag that is very prominent on the red square). This building was traditionally the armoury of the fortress. However in the 20th centry it was converted to government offices and now features a museum where many of the past Czar family's treasures are shown to the public (albeit access is heavily regulated). Some of its exhibits include the "Shapka Monomacha" (Monomach's Hat) which is Russia's version of Europe's Golden Crown (it's made of some really small animal's leather, very fuzzy, and crowned with some of the world's biggest diamonds set in gold)..
The Cardinal of the Kremlin - The Cardinal of the Kremlin The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan. It is a sequel of sorts to The Hunt For Red October, based around the development of the Strategic Defence Initiative and its Soviet equivalent, covering themes including intelligence gathering and counterintelligence, political intrigue, and guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Notable for its outrageous (yet plausible) conclusion and the increasing predominance of pro-military, pro-law enforcement views endorsed in Clancy's writing..
Operation Kremlin - Operation Kremlin During World War II, Fall Kremel (Operation Kremlin in German) was a German deception operation which falsely portrayed that the 1942 German summer offensive would be aimed at Moscow. In fact, the actual offensive Operation Blue was directed at oil fields in southern Russia. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kazan - the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka rivers in central European Russia. The city has a beautiful kremlin as well as an Old City dating back to the 15th century. The Kazan' State University was founded in 1804 and has had prominent students as Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Kazan' was founded in the 14th century AD and it soon became the capital of a powerful Tatar khanate. In 1552 the city was annexed by Russia under Ivan Grozny. It was largely destroyed in 1774 due to a revolt by border patrol troops and peasants under the leadership of Don Cossack ataman (captain) Yemelyan Pugachev, but was rebuilt soon thereafter, during the reign of Catherine the Great. It remains an important center of Tatar culture. Population (1999): 1,091,500. A metro.
Kolomna - in the Moscow Oblast region. It has a citadel (which is called kremlin like the one in Moscow). This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kremvax - Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, and referred to it frequently in his own postings. Eventually he even.
January 14 - 1972 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark's accession to the throne. 1972 - Sanford & Son premieres on NBC. 1978 - Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. 1984 - Ray Mancini defeats Bobby Chacon by a knockout in three to retain his WBA boxing world Lightweight title in Reno. 1985 - Martina Navratilova wins her 100th tennis tournament. 1990 - The Simpsons debuts on FOX as a regular series with the episode "Bart the Genius". 1993 - David Letterman announces he was moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS. 1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear.
John Clark - (and staged his own death right under his Coast Guard friend's nose) in Without Remorse; helped a Soviet official's wife and daughter defect in The Cardinal of the Kremlin; rescued a Japanese politician who became prime minister in Debt of Honor; rescued an abandoned secret military unit in Clear and Present Danger; tracked down the source of a bioterrorism plague in Executive Orders. Compare: Jack Ryan.
John Huston - the Devil (1954) Moby Dick (1956) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) The Roots of Heaven (1958) The Unforgiven (1960) The Misfits (1960) The Secret Passion (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) Night of the Iguana (1964) The Bible: In The Beginning (1966) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Sinful Davey (1969) A Walk with Love and Death (1969) The Kremlin Letter (1970) Fat City (1971) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) Battle For The Planet of the Apes (1973) The Mackintosh Man (1973) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Wise Blood (1979) Victory (1980) Annie (1982) Under the Volcano (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Dead (1987).
Vladimir Putin - should be destroyed. His United Russia party won a landslide victory in the 2003 parliamentary elections. In March 2004, the Presidential elections are due. It is expected that Putin should comfortably win re-election to the Presidency for his second and final term. He is not permitted under the Constitution to run after his second term (although following the 2003 parliamentary elections he gained a sufficient majority to change the Constitution). It is said that there are two factions operating within Putin's Kremlin. One, the siloviki, is associated with the more nationalist elements of the military and security services. The other, tagged the Family, are people linked with former President Boris Yeltsin and the oligarchs who prospered during his term in office. These two factions often fiercely disagree, as they did in.
Head of State - Fifth French Republic. In the French case, where parliament is controlled by the party which the President belonged to, the President is usually the dominant political player in government. Where, however, the 'opposition' to the President control parliament, given that the government is answerable to parliament, the President has little choice but to share power with an 'opposition' government. When this occurs, it is called Cohabitation. In practice, the government controls the internal policy agenda, with the President limiting his role to foreign affairs, subject to the government. Symbolic role As the above quote by Charles de Gaulle indicates, one of the most important roles of the modern head of state is being a symbolic national symbol of the nation. In most countries portraits of the head of state can be.
Hill County, Montana - age of 18, 11.60% from 18 to 24, 26.00% from 25 to 44, 21.40% from 45 to 64, and 12.80% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 99.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.40 males. The median income for a household in the county is $30,781, and the median income for a family is $38,179. Males have a median income of $29,908 versus $19,874 for females. The per capita income for the county is $14,935. 18.40% of the population and 15.30% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 23.30% are under the age of 18 and 9.00% are 65 or older. Cities and towns.
Hotline - than to preselected destinations. Various priority services that require dialing are not properly termed "hotlines." Perhaps the most famous hotline linked the White House with the Kremlin during the Cold War. It was established in 1963 after the Cuban missile crisis made it clear that reliable, direct communications between the two great powers was a vital necessity. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C Hotline Connect is a pioneering file sharing and peer-to-peer tool which offers central servers over the Hotline protocol, and several clients. The Hotline Software, now under the company Hotsprings Inc., services version 1.9.1 and has released the source code to the public. OpenSprings.org is the web site devoted to public input to the software External Link Hotsprings Inc. OpenSprings.
Garfield County, Oklahoma - median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 93.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.40 males. The median income for a household in the county is $33,006, and the median income for a family is $39,872. Males have a median income of $29,921 versus $20,791 for females. The per capita income for the county is $17,457. 13.90% of the population and 10.50% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 19.70% are under the age of 18 and 10.40% are 65 or older. Cities and towns \n*Breckenridge\n*Carrier\n*Covington\n*Douglas\n*Drummond\n*Enid\n*Fairmont\n*Garber\n*Hillsdale\n*Hunter\n*Kremlin\n*Lahoma\n*North Enid\n*Waukomis.
Golden ring - in Russian history. The towns have been called "museums under open sky" and feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th-18th centuries, including kremls (fortresses such as the Kremlin in Moscow) Monastaries, cathedrals and churches. These towns are among the most picturesque in Russia and prominantly feature Russia's famous onion domes. Although there are some discrepencies with respect to the names of the cities that are included in the ring, most include Sergeev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov-Valiky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanova, Gus Khrustalny, Sudzal, Vladimir, Rybinsk, Uglich, and Alexandrov. Many of these cities are to be found along the M8 highway or can be reached from Yaroslavl Vaxhal..
Fall Blau - covered the northern regions of the operation near Voronezh, while Maus detailed the attacks into the Caucasus, and Siegfried the attack on Stalingrad and the Volga. Blau was often used to describe the entire operational plan as well, and has generally been used this way in historical studies. See Kremlin..
