Benjamin Freiman (right) from Marijampol (now in Lithuania), and another Jewish soldier in the tsarist army, Kronstadt, Russia, ca. 1890s. Photograph by U. Ia. Iakovlev.
Napoleon Bonaparte. He was the Emperor of France and also the King of Italy as Napoleon I.His actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Bonaparte was born in Corsica.
The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe).
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On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986.
Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program.
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Alaska: Geographical and historical treatment of Alaska, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government. At an elevation of 20,310 feet, Alaska’s Denali is North America’s highest peak.
This document gives a chronology of computing at Columbia University, as best I can piece it together, written mainly in Jan-Feb 2001, updated periodically since then (time of last update listed above).