Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Esperanto was invented by Dr. L. Zamenhof, a physician of Bielostok, Russia, where the clash of four races (Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews), suggested the necessity for a neutral tongue. Esperanto was first published in 1887, seven years after its predecessor, Volapük, which it has now supplanted...
North of Eastern Siberia, an island 70 miles long, 40 miles wide, consisting chiefly of naked rocks, and inhabited normally by nothing but polar bears, is claimed by Russia, Canada, the United States; and there is a possibility that Japan may come into the controversy...
...French press took occasion to retell the story of how the world's most noted pianist was expelled from Russia after playing for Tzar Alexander III. The gist of this tale...
Alexander III: " You are a great artist and an honor to Russia...
Colonel Alexander Schwartz, ex-Tzarist officer, challenged Senator Brookhart of Iowa, recently returned from Russia, to a debate on the recognition of the " Lenin-Trotzky Government...