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.... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...enus was successfully made from two points, on separate islands, but while the astronomers were making their calculations one of the ship's store room... ...ohn Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD. The mo... ...itish commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux had taken f... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe... ... of ice that disputed his further passage northward. In the harbor was a small Russian village and garrison, and to this place the remains were taken ... ...h ships soon penetrated as far as Nova Zembla, and did a large trade along the Russian coast. FROBISHER'S STRANGE DISCOVERIES. While rapid progress wa... ...een determined by the land explorations of Behring while in the service of the Russian government, and endeavor to make a way from the west to the eas...

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... never-again-repeated burst of energy exploded out of a minuscule point. Astronomers call it “the Big Bang.” Just as a seed and an egg join to form... ... and translated into eight languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, f rench, Turkish, and german. Prof. Laitman also presents regular...

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...l, the existence of super- dense neutron stars is outside of doubt between astronomers. Gravitational waves at frequencies of 10 2 –10 4 Hz should als... ... the Universe. This problem has been under considerable discussion between astronomers and physicists over last decade, and remains open. Rotations of... ...1. Chapiro I. S. New “nuclei” built on nucleons and anti-nucleons. Nature (Russian), 1975, No. 12, 68–73. 12. Davic R., John K., Jordan M., Rabounski ...

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...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ...ll of an idea! like the rugged ease her off a little, ease her off! rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros or the there she goes! meet her, meet h... ...s, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geolo...

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...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ... universe be but for that subjection to fixed laws which, according to the astronomers, so Louis tells me, rule the spheres! It is not or- der of whic... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer...

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..., that the re- cent improvements in science and mechanics have enabled the astronomers to make. Fortunately, he gave his discourses somewhat of the pr... ...nation of his hearers some just notions of its size, though so familiar to astronomers, produced a deep and unexpected impression on me. “Our instrume... ...ces that are ever paid for such articles—for to tell you the truth certain Russian princesses employ her in all these little matters. Have you thought... ...at the void of heaven. It was glittering with those bright stars which the astronomers tell us are suns of other systems, and the scene gradually drew...

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...hich is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scientific of astronomers. For the man of science, equally with the populace, talks of th... ...e, sufficiently argues that the verses must have ploughed as deeply as the Russian knout. Vitriol could not scorch more fiercely. And yet the whole pa...

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...difices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them... ...often possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is th...

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...edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them... ...often possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast Fish, whereof possession is th...

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..., ‘S’il nest pas tant sort peu impertinent?’ The advance of some German or Russian nobleman spared me further efforts. We were on shore, listening to ... ...ay, and we in our old Germany hold that the mind advances notwithstanding. Astronomers condescending to earthly philosophy may admit that advance in t... ... close of the aristocratic season there, he renewed an acquaintance with a Russian lady, Count- ess Kornikoff, and he and I parted. She disliked the M...

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...e learned, and often the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learn... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th... ...est. The audience being over, Dubois came from his cabinet, conducting the Russian minister, and immediately saw his sofa so well ornamented. He saw n...

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...Ivanovitch as soon as Stepan Arkadyevitch had left them. “What a typically Russian, Slav nature! Only, I’m afraid it won’t be pleasant for Vronsky to ... ... had believed in his earliest childhood, and ninety-nine hundredths of the Russian people, all the working people for whose life he felt the deepest r... ...ristians, but simply children, women, old people, feel- ing is aroused and Russians go eagerly to help in stop- ping these atrocities. Fancy, if you w... ...e time of the Bulgarian atrocities, I couldn’t make out why it was all the Russians were all of a sudden so fond of their Slavonic brethren, while I d... ...hould have been 49 Tolstoy silent, but now we have heard the voice of the Russian people, which is ready to rise as one man and ready to sacrifice it... ...h, and I’m right in saying that the stars move. 57 Tolstoy “And could the astronomers have understood and cal- culated anything, if they had taken in... ...lways alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observatio...

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...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...ight (as it literally was in its commencement)—to the T artar siege of the Russian fortress Koulagina—the bloody engagement with the Cossacks in the m... ...sses at Ouchim—the surprisal by the Bashkirs and the advanced posts of the Russian army at Torgau—the private conspiracy at this point against the Kha... ... Vice-Khan, by the express appointment, and with the avowed support of the Russian Government. He was now about eigh- teen years of age, amiable in hi... ...alous surveillance of an irresistible lord paramount, in the person of the Russian Czar, gave a fiercer edge to the natural unamiableness of the Kalmu... ...ort of tax or fine levied for remunerating their own risks; and that great astronomers, as necessarily far trav- ellers into space, are entitled to a ... ...Glasgow, the stars are conscious of being watched every- where; and if all astronomers do not publish their observa- tions, all use them in their spec... ...e interplanetary ether, and other rarities, which the professional body of astronomers would naturally keep (if they could) for their own private enjo... ... a new one exclusively for this occasion, may be doubtful. What it is that astronomers think, who are a kind of ‘cosmogony men,’ the reader may learn ...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global ... ...c. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans... ... district. “That’s how it always is!” Sergey Ivanovitch interrupted him. “We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it’s our strong point, really, the... ...ell swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style. The old curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs lade... ... in their high boots with obvious timidity, she skated towards him. A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his arms and bowed down to the ground, ... ...ht in saying that the stars move. Part VIII — Chapter 19 769 “And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken in... ... always alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on obser v...

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...sting in its way, of course, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fa... ...nastery he met this elder. I must digress to explain what an “elder” is in Russian monas- teries, and I am sorry that I do not feel very competent to ... ... an elder are not the ordinary “obedience” which has always existed in our Russian monasteries. The obligation involves confession to the elder by all... ...rely at seeing his face. Oh! he understood that for the humble soul of the Russian peasant, worn out by grief and toil, and still more by the everlast... ...ext to these costly and artis- tic engravings were several of the roughest Russian prints of saints and martyrs, such as are sold for a few farthings ... ...I think, flying round the earth without knowing why, like a satellite. The astronomers would calculate the rising and the setting of the axe; Gatzuk w...

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...man, I may have intelligence for the private ear of the States’ College of Astronomers of far more importance than the details, however wonderful, of ... ...s- 68 Poe in Five V olumes pecial antipathies to certain burgomasters and astronomers. Don’t understand at all. Secondly. That an odd little dwarf an... ...anquillitatis, Mare Faecunditatis, etc., given to the dark spots by former astronomers, Mr. L. has entered into details re- garding oceans and other l... ...ds of the shrill voice. Spoke quick and unevenly. Thinks it the voice of a Russian. Corroborates the general testimony. Is an Italian. Never conversed... ...has no knowledge of the En- glish.’ The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but ‘has never conversed with a native of Russia.’ A second French...

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...c body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr... ...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ...oroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ e...

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...could have been no retreat, and no retrieval of character. The greatest of astronomers, rather than seem ostentatious or unseason- ably learned, will ... ...th century. The merest possibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto...