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How is The Ukraine Similar To Russia?
The Ukraine is a region in the southwest part of the Soviet Union. It borders on the Black Sea and on some of the nations of eastern Europe. Its name comes from u-kraj, “at the border”, which is what the region was once called by Polish people.
At various times, parts of the Ukraine belonged to [...]
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Leave a commentDid a Meteorite Cause The Tunguska Event or Was It a UFO?
Tunguska is a sparsely inhabited region of forests and swamps in central Siberia. It’s a good thing that the region is sparsely settled. For on June 30, 1908, Tunguska was the scene of one of the most powerful explosions that ever occurred on earth, an explosion whose cause remains a mystery.
On that morning in 1908, [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Is The Largest Lake In The World?
The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on earth. It is more than four times as large as Lake Superior, the second largest lake. But the Caspian Sea was once much larger, and today, its area continues to shrink.
The Caspian Sea is surrounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.
An inland sea once covered the [...]
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Leave a commentWhat City Is Known As The “Venice of the North”?
Early in the eighteenth century, Russian Czar Peter I decided to build a new city to serve as an outlet for Russia on the Baltic Sea. The site he chose was on the Neva River, near the gulf of Finland.
Because the region was very swampy, the city had to be built on piles, pillars sunk [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Country Has The Deepest Permafrost?
Permafrost is permanently frozen soil. It is found in regions where the winters are very cold and the summers are not warm or long enough to allow the soil to thaw.
A region of eastern Siberia, near the Lena River, has the deepest permafrost yet discovered on earth. The ground there is continually frozen to a [...]
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Leave a commentIs the Greek Legend of Jason And The Argonauts True?
The story of Jason and the band of Greeks known as the Argonauts is one of the oldest and best-known legends of ancient Greece.
According to the legend, a Greek prince named Jason was charged with the task of finding and returning to Greece the golden fleece, the skin of a golden ram. The ram had [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Part of Siberia Has No Mountains?
The Urals is a range of mountains that runs north and south across the Soviet Union, dividing the European part of that nation from the Asian part.
But if you traveled east from the Urals, you would leave mountains behind for a long time. As there are almost no mountains or even hills between the Urals [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Frozen Woolly Mammoth Was Good Enough to Eat?
Before this century, scientists knew that a large, elephant-like creature called the mammoth had once roamed the forests of Siberia and other parts of the world.
Ancient cave paintings depicting these creatures had been found, and mammoth tusks had been dug up from the earth. But not until 1900 did scientists have a chance to see [...]
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Leave a commentWhich Is the Tallest Statue on Earth?
No, the Statue of Liberty isn’t the tallest statue on earth. But it does have one thing in common with the statue that lays claim to that title.
The world’s tallest statue, on a hill near the Russian city of Volgograd, is also the figure of a woman, like the Statue of Liberty. But instead of [...]
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Do Pygmy Elephants Exist Or Are They A Myth?