Russia, Imperial

After completing his medical studies in 1721, he applied for a chair at Basle, but like his father before him, he lost out in a lottery. Disappointed with his lack of success, he accepted an invitation from Catherine I, Empress ol Russia, to become Professor of Mathematics at the Imperial Academy in St. 

Dr. Basil T. Fedoroff, scientist and engineer, who worked at Picatinny Arsenal from 1946—1961 and served as an Arsenal consultant from 1961—1975, died in Miami, Florida on 29 December 1976 at the age of 85. Dr. Fedoroff, who was best known as the Chief Editor of the Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items , Volumes 1 to 7 (1960—1975), was bom in Merv, Russia on 8 January 1891. He graduated from the Imperial Tomsk Institute of Technology as a chemical engineer in 1914, and earned his doctorate in the same field from the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1940... 

While no book on the subject could be exhaustive, The Bathhouse at Midnight does describe and assess all the literary sources of magic, witchcraft, astrology, alchemy, and divination from Kiev Rus and Imperial Russia, and to some extent Ukraine and Belorussia. Where possible, Ryan identifies the sources of the texts (usually Greek, Arabic, or West European) and makes parallels to other cultures, ranging from classical antiquity to Finnic. He finds that Russia shares most of its magic and divination with the rest of Europe... 

Professor Komarewsky was born in Moscow in 1895. With characteristic acceptance of the vicissitudes of fate, he let neither service in a bomber squadron in the Imperial Russian Navy nor the turmoil of a bloody social revolution interrupt his early scientific education and development in Russia and Germany. He was particularly fortunate in his associations with two of the great masters of catalysis. First, as a pupil of N. D. Zelinsky, he received an invaluable indoctrination in catalysis, particularly in regard to dehydrogenation and low-pressure reactions. Second, as a fellow worker with V. N. Ipatieff, he became familiar with high-pressure techniques applied to catalytic reactions. 

Lewisite is the most important of the organo-arseni-cal CW agents. Exposure to lewisite is quite painful, and onset of symptoms occurs rapidly (seconds to minutes) (31) in contrast to sulfur mustard for which a latency period occurs of several hours between exposure and symptoms (32). Although it is not known to have been used as a CW agent, lewisite is still considered a potential threat due to the relative ease of production and its rapid onset of action. Moreover, substantial stockpiles of lewisite are present in the United States, Russia, and in China abandoned by the Japanese Imperial Army. This may constitute a potential hazard for public health (33). The toxicity of lewisite is inter alia caused by the high affinity for the vicinal di-thiol system present in dihydrolipoic acid, a component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, as is the case for other arsenicals (34). This prevents the formation of acetyl coenzyme A from pyruvate. 

Ely, Christopher. 2000. Critics in the Native Soil Landscape and Conflicting Ideals of Nationality in Imperial Russia. Ecumene 7(3) 253—70. 

Moon, David. 1996. Estimating the Peasant Population of Late Imperial Russia from the 1897 Census A Research Note. Europe-Asta Studies 48(1) 141-53. 

Pallet, Judith. 2000. Imagining the Rational Landscape in Late Imperial Russia. Journal of Historical Geography 26(2) 273-91. 

The wedro of Russia (10 stof or 30 Russian pounds) = 12.29 litrori, or 21 pints 12 ounces 12i drachms imperial. 

Mendeleev received the Davy Medal (with Meyer in 1882) and the Copley Medal (in 1905), but Russia s Imperial Academy of Sciences refused to acknowledge his work. He resigned his university position in 1890 and was... 

Of course, many populations in other circumstances claim to be disenfranchised or suppressed. They will argue that they too have been subjected to colonialism. However, they are excluded from application of the concept. For example, Chechnya argued that it was forcibly incorporated into Russia during the period of imperialism and colonially exploited. Nevertheless, its claims to colonial self-determination were simply brushed aside on the international stage. Some politicians in Kosovo were tempted to make a similar argument in relation to Serbia. Again, this... 

A system of measurement used in Imperial Russia contained a unit of length called the archine or arshin. It was equivalent to a distance of 28 inches and was in use until the mid-twentieth century. Many of the rifles used by the Soviet army in World War II and afterward had been fitted with sights scaled to that unit of measuremenL The phrase worth its weight in gold comes from the use of a grain of wheat as the unit of measurement for the precious metal. 

Vinylidene chloride monomer is produced commercially in the United States by The Dow Chemical Co. and PPG Industries. The monomer is produced in Europe by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. and Solvin. The monomer is produced in Japan by the Asahi Chemical Co., Kureha Chemical Industries, and Kanto Denka Kogyo Co. Commercial suppliers of VDC copolymers include The Dow Chemical Co. in the United States and Solvin in Europe. Asahi Chemical Co. and Kureha Chemical Industries are suppliers of VDC resins in Japan. Additional manufacturers of exclusively VDC latexes include W. R. Grace and Rohm Haas in the United States, and Scott-Bader in Europe. Local suppliers of VDC resins have also been reported in Russia and the People s Republic of China. 

The conversion of Russia s Imperial ambitions with its desire for dramatic territorial expansion dates to the reigns of Peter and Catherine in the eighteenth century. Russian writers sentenced to exile were henceforth typically banished from the country s political and cultural centres to such provincial peripheries as the Caucasus and Siberia. Given that exile and home are interdependent terms, the very concept of internal exile implies that vast areas of the Russian empire have been perceived as other or foreign chuzhoi). In a cultural tradition that tends to see literature as the social conscience of the nation and hence inextricably linked with the... 

Miller, Martin A., Freud and the Bolsheviks Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1998), p. 37. 

The United States was the pioneering country of chemical engineering. A curriculum in chemical engineering was started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1880. The old Europe followed the trend, starting from Denmark, Great Britain, and Imperial Russia. 

Yeliseev, A.I. 1883. A bout so-called the vavilonakh in the north of Russia. News of Imperial Russian geographical society. 19 12-16. 

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