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Timeline: USSR
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to to Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika 1900s 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 1990s Next Timeline 1917 Bolshevik Revolution:…1999 Women's World, Olympic and American Field Events Records
Field Events Event Mark Date Set Location High Jump: World 6-101/4 Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria Aug. 30, 1987 Rome Olympic 6-8 Louise Ritter, USA…State of the Union Address: Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 11, 1944)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 11, 1944) To the Congress: This Nation in the past two years has become an active partner in the world's greatest war against human slavery. We have joined with like-…Movies and Film: Foreign Films
Foreign FilmsMovies and FilmFilm Financing, Production, and DistributionProduction, Distribution, ExhibitionDistributionExhibition(ists)Stars' BucksIndependent Films TodayForeign FilmsSome Films…John Foster DULLES, Congress, NY (1888-1959)
Senate Years of Service: 1949-1949 Party: Republican DULLES John Foster , a Senator from New York; born in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1888; attended the public schools of Watertown, N.Y.;…Famous Trains: Europe and Africa
by Mike Rozett Trans-Siberian Express 1898 Traveling between Moscow and Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian Express makes the longest regular train trip in the world…Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Biography
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Russian President Born: 2/1/1931 Birthplace: Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk),…Movies and Film: Some Soviet Movies Worth Watching
Some Soviet Movies Worth WatchingMovies and FilmEastern European Film HistoryVolga Displays: A Brief History of Russian FilmmakingOther Eastern European Cinemas: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, PolandAvant-…Economic Domino Theory
by Tasha Vincent Is there a Vaccination for the Asian Economic Flu? When the currency crisis in Thailand began in the summer of 1997, most Americans watched with detached interest. When…World's Largest Subway Systems
Below is a list of the largest subway systems in the world by annual ridership. The table also provides the passenger route length of each system and the date the system opened. CityDate…