Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

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Skobelev instructs NCOs to raid a Turkish trench at night and bring back the dead

Military literature is, of course, a world entirely apart. Let me quote one witty passage about Skobelev. Having gathered the non-commissioned officers in his tent, he proposed that they creep by night into a Turkish trench and frighten the Turks away from the Russian camp: "Get to the

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Nemirovich-Danchenko describes an episode from the Turkish campaign, during the distribution of St George Crosses, when General Skobelev refused an officer from one of the companies that had wavered in battle

Nemirovich-Danchenko describes an episode from the Turkish campaign, during the distribution of St George Crosses, when General Skobelev refused an officer from one of the companies that had wavered in battle. “YOU may well deserve it; let them recommend you for a personal cross. But now I am giving

Dust jacket of Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko's Skobelev: a general on a white horse raising a sword, with soldiers and a banner. A purple Rare Book band runs across the top.

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Cover of Nemirovich-Danchenko's book Skobelev from the Rare Book series

V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko (the brother) described the life of his friend General Skobelev. The biographical details in the book are rather meagre, but the accounts of the military campaigns are thorough, and there are extracts from letters

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There is a well-known passage from a Lotman lecture on the psychological and social causes of boorishness, which applies equally to the modern hooligan and, as it turns out, to many a civil servant

There is a well-known passage from a Lotman lecture on the psychological and social causes of boorishness, which applies equally to the modern hooligan and, as it turns out, to many a civil servant. A simple formula explains the defiant, odious conduct of people who knowingly destroy what is

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A series of notes on artworks and cultural treasures lost in the war, for Victory Day

For some time I have been studying the subject of cultural losses in the war years, and for Victory Day I have decided to prepare a series of notes on the treasures of art and culture that our country has lost. Over the weekend I shall share the stories that

Painted sculpted bust of a man in dark clothing with red sleeves on a gilded pedestal.

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Niccolò Machiavelli on religious practices in the interests of the sovereign

Machiavelli wrote that religious practices should be used solely in the interests of the prince. How fortunate that we do not forget his precepts. And happy birthday, Niccolò!

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A Word Was Put In for Terekhov, Too

A word was put in for Terekhov, too. Incidentally, an interesting manual for anyone wishing to find out something about their ancestors

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Horse censuses of 1882 and 1888 on the number and quality of horses in Russia

I would like to share a curious article on horse-breeding in the nineteenth century from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary:. Of the approximately 60,456,000 horses in the world, namely 32,253,400 in Europe, 4,125,400 in Asia, 656,000 in Africa, 20,909,000

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Book page with a Kurdish poem titled “Oktjabr!”, number 37, printed in Latin script.

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Kurdish Poem About October in Latin Script from a Publication of the Same Years

For comparison: a Kurdish socialist poem in Latin script, from a publication of the same years. Here is Oktyabr, the soap of the proletariat, no less!

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On the Latinisation of the Turkic Languages: A Page from a Kurdish Children's Book Published in Armenia in the 1930s

On the Latinisation of the Turkic languages: a page from a Kurdish children's book published in Armenia in the 1930s. I have no idea what it means, but it reminded me of the Captain Second Rank in "Ivan Denisovich".

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Mandrake

Mandrake. Drawing from the Greek treatise "On Medicinal Substances". This copy dates from the 10th century, although the original was written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD and was copied for 1,500 years