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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Info For Students And Children

2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Info For Students And Children

2018 FIFA World Cup Russia 14 June to 15 July 2018 The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men’s national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded …

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Heaviest train pulled: Russia set World Record

Heaviest train pulled: Russia set World Record

Smolyaninovo, Russia – March 1, 2017 – Russian Powerlifting champion Ivan Savkin managed to pull a 288-ton electric train a total distance of 1.1 metres in Primorsky Krai’s village of Smolyaninovo, thus setting the new world record for the Heaviest train pulled. Photo: One of the world’s strongest “human tow trucks,” Vladivostok resident Ivan Savkin managed to pull a 288-ton …

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Russia sets World Record: Largest mobile skating ring

Russia sets World Record: Largest mobile skating ring

Moscow, Russia – December 8, 2016 – Figure skaters and hockey players from capital sporting schools tested a giant skating rink with an ice surface of 20,1 thousand sq.m at VDNH (the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), which sets the new world record for the Largest mobile skating ring with artificial ice surface. Photo: Figure skaters and hockey players …

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Russia Guinness World Record: Largest Greek Salad

Russia Guinness World Record: Largest Greek Salad

Moscow, Russia – October 8, 2016 – Petros Lambrinidis, a Greek chef from Crete, managed to create a gigantic 20-tonne salad with the help of over 1,000 volunteers in Moscow’s Red Square, thus setting the new world record for the Largest Greek Salad (Largest Salad), according to the World Record Academy. Photo: Petros Lambrinidis managed to create the gigantic 20-tons …

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Largest swimwear parade on skis: Russia breaks record

Largest swimwear parade on skis: Russia breaks record

Sochi, Russia – April 21, 2016 – More than 1,000 Russian skiers take to the Sochi slopes in bikinis and swimsuits in pursuit of breaking the Guinness World Record; the event was part of the BoogelWoogel mountain carnival at the site of the 2014 Olympics. Photo: Skiers and snow boarders descend from a slope as they attempt to break the …

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What is the Russian avantegarde movement?

The term avante garde refers generally to art for the sake of social progress. But sometimes, the term is also used to refer to experimental and innovative art without any specific social purpose. The term is used with the former meaning in Russia, which experienced a great art reform in the period 1917-1932 in the wake of the Russian revolution. …

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Beetroot: Plant Encyclopedia, Sugar Beet, Taproot, Nutrition, Facts

Beetroot: Plant Encyclopedia, Sugar Beet, Taproot, Nutrition, Facts

Beetroot — Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), a member of the Chenopodiaceae family, is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar. Species: Beta vulgaris Subspecies: Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris Cultivar group: Conditiva Group Origin: Sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima) Cultivar group members: Many Beetroot: Plant Encyclopedia The sugar beet is directly related to the beetroot, …

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Agniveer Scheme: Let us look at it differently and objectively

Agniveer Scheme: Let us look at it differently and objectively

There are around two hundred nations in the world and each has tailored its defense needs and forces according to several strategic factors and most importantly the economic condition. One thing is clear: defending a nation is not a welfare scheme. “America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels”: Claudia Pemberton Agniveer Scheme: Every nation needs to …

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