1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. 1998 - Events. January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths. January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants. January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubl ...

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• 1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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• 1998 - Templeton Prize

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1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). 1971 - Events. January 1 - British Divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom Januar ...

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1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. (click on link for calendar) 1913 - Events. January 30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station. February 3 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax. February 3 - Trial of the remnants of ...

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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). 1978 - Events. January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

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The name of Constantinople is an honorific eponym referencing its founder, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Constantine established the Greek city of Byzantium as the second capital of the Roman Empire on May 11, AD 330, naming the city Nova Roma (New Rome). That particular name, however, enjoyed little common use, and it was as the 'City of Constantine' (Constantinopolis) that it ...

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The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world. The English service broadcasts 24 hours a day. Unlike the BBC's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...

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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. Balkans - Definitions and boundaries. Balkans - Balkan Peninsula. The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are surrounded by ...

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The Bahri dynasty or Bahriyya Sultante المماليك البحرية was a Mamluk dynasty of Kipchak Turk origin that ruled Egypt from 1250 to 1382 when they were succeeded by the Burji dynasty, another group of Mamluks. Their name means 'of the sea', referring to them ruling from al-Manyal island in the Nile (Bahr al-Nil) off Cairo. In 1250, when the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub died, the Mamluks owned by sultan killed his owner's heir, and the Mamluk general Aybak (who ruled 1250 - 1257) married Shajar al-Dur ...

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The Axis Powers were those opposed to the Allies. The 3 major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Empire of Japan, referred to themselves as the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis". At their zenith, the Axis powers ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, but they were ultimately defeated at the end of World War II. Like the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, and some nations entered and later left the Axis during the course of the war. Major Axis powers ...

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Baba Yaga (Czech Baba Jaga, Polish Baba Jaga, Slovene Jaga Baba, Macedonian Баба Рога, Russian Бáба-Ягá, Bulgarian Баба Яга, Ukrainian Баба Яґа, Serbian: Baba Roga) in Slavic mythology is the wild woman, the dark lady and mistress of magic. She is also seen as a forest spirit, leading hosts of spirits. The word baba in most Slavic languages means ...

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Banjska Monastery (pronounced Bine-ska to rhyme with Mine-ska) is a Serb Orthodox Monastery near Zvečan in the north of Kosovo and Metohia, Serbia and Montenegro. The monastery, along with St. Stephen's Church was built between 1313 and 1317 and was founded by the Serb King Stefan Uroš II Milutin, one of the most powerful Balkan rulers of the period and one of the most powerful rulers of the entire Nemanjić dynasty. Milutin built the church as his burial place and it is there that he was first laid to rest. However, following the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 his body was moved to Trepča and then in 1460 to ...

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Barking is the one of the noises most commonly produced by dogs. Bark dog - Why dogs bark. Although dogs are a subspecies of the wolf, Canis lupus, their barking constitutes a significant difference from their parent species. Although wolves do bark, they do so only in specific situations. According to Coppinger and Feinstein, dogs bark in long, rhythmic stanzas but adult wolf barks tend to be brief and isolated [1]. D ...

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Balkan linguistic union or Balkansprachbund is a name given to the similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology found in the languages of the Balkans, which belong to various Indo-European branches, such as Albanian, Greek, Romance and Slavic. While the common vocabulary between each language is relatively small, the grammars of the languages have a high degree of similarity, among which the adoption of a standard case system and a movement toward analyzation. Balkan linguistic union - History< ...

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The Battle of Manzikert occurred on August 26, 1071 between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turkish forces led by Alp Arslan, resulting in the defeat of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes. Battle of Manzikert - Background. During the 1060s the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan allowed his Turkish allies to migrate towards Armenia and Asia Minor, where they sacked cities and plundered farmland. In 1064 they destroyed the Armenian capital at Ani. In 1068 Romanus IV led an expedition ag ...

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The Book of Veles (also: Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook, Isenbeck's Planks, Велесова книга, Влес книга, Влескнига, Книга Велеса, Дощечки Изенбека, Дощьки Изенбека) is claimed to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history. It contains religious passages and accounts of history interspersed with religious morals. The earliest events in the book could be dated around 7th c ...

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• Book of Veles - An alternative history of a forgery
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• Book of Veles - Plank 2/B
• Book of Veles - From Plank 7/A
• Book of Veles - Plank 11/A
• Book of Veles - From Plank 26/B

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Boris and Gleb, Christian names Roman and David, were the first Russian saints. According to two 11th century Lives of Boris and Gleb (assigned to Nestor the Chronicler and Jacob the Monk), they were children of Vladimir the Great who liked them more than his other children. Both were murdered during the internecine wars of 1015-1019 and glorified by the Russian Orthodox church in 1071. Numerous churches are dedicated to them, e.g., the Borisoglebsky Abbey near Rostov. The Primary Chronicle says that their mother ...

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Boris I Michail or Boris I Michael (Bulgarian Борис I Михаил)(died May 2, 907) was the khan from 852 to 889 and first Christian ruler of Bulgaria. Michael became part of his name after his baptism in 864. He was son of Khan Presijan of Bulgaria. Boris kept the borders of his country essentially unchanged with diplomacy and alliances with the Frankish king Charles the Bald, Prince Rostislav of Moravia, the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, and eventually King Louis the German even though suffering defeats. ...

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Brother Bear is the forty-third film in the Disney animated feature canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida and released on November 1, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. In it, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle with it he provoked in which his oldest brother is killed. He tracks down the bear down and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, change the boy into a bear himself as punishment. Originally titled Bears, it was the third and ...

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The Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България), or Bulgaria, is a country in the southeast of Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north along the river Danube. Bulgaria - History. Main article: History of Bulgaria In the late 7th century a branch of the Bulgars led by Khan Asparuh migrated into the northern Balkans, where they merged wi ...

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