Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest of the tall ships is the 375-ft. Russian bark Kruzenshtern, built in 1926 and, like most of the others, used as a training ship for naval cadets. The oldest is the American barkentine Gazela Primeiro, built in 1883 as a fishing vessel and now owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage...
...wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land?" No, we shall not, was the answer, and so there came the thousands of Irish starved by the potato famine of 1845, and thousands more of Germans oppressed after the uprisings of 1848, and still more thousands of Russian Jews afflicted by the czars' pogroms, and then in 1882 Congress passed the first immigration laws barring lunatics, convicts and Chinese laborers. The principle of "selectivity" had been born...
...Russian Souls. The most painfully uprooted are the political refugees, and in recent times that has meant
...that Catherine is just beginning to enjoy peace, at the age of 47, the absolute mistress of everything from Kiev to Kamchatka has found a new specimen of what the Russians call a vremenshchik (man of the moment). He is Pyotr Zavadovsky, 37, her private secretary, who has moved into the traditional consort's suite just below the Empress's own chambers (and connected to them by a green-carpeted circular stairway). Where does that leave His Serene Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black...
...wore bonnets with spotted ribbons (to simulate the pox). Empress Catherine of Russia summoned an English doctor to inoculate her and her courtiers (for which she paid him a fee of ?10,000 plus ?2,000 for expenses, an annuity of ?500 for life, and a barony in the Russian empire). Despite these successes, critics kept insisting that inoculation spread the disease. As a result, the practice was banned at one tune or another in almost all the colonies. The New York law of 1747, for example, "strictly prohibits and forbids all [doctors] to inoculate for the small...