The Russian–American Telegraph, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition and the Collins Overland Telegraph, was an attempt by the Western...
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America Other topics Alaska boundary dispute Flag of the Russian-American Company Alaskan Creole people Russian Americans Russian–American Telegraph Slavic...
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Western Union (redirect from American Telegraph Company)
Lincoln. The firm additionally formed the Russian–American Telegraph Company in an attempt to link America to Europe, via Alaska, into Siberia, to Moscow...
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Perry Collins (category Russian colonization of North America)
visionary behind the Russian-American Telegraph of 1865–1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait...
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The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group...
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navigation. In 1866, the construction of the Russian-American Telegraph line to the Yukon gave Telegraph Creek its name. As early as 10,000 years ago...
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Relations between the Russian Empire and the United States predate the American Revolution, when the Russians began trading with the Thirteen Colonies...
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Bering Strait (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
America via the Bering Strait nearly became a reality in 1864 when a Russian-American telegraph company began preparations for an overland telegraph line...
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who, in 1866, explored the area in preparation for the failed Russian American Telegraph. The project was abandoned because of the success of the trans-Atlantic...
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Telegraphy (in Russian) Pavel Shilling and his telegraph- article in PCWeek, Russian edition. Distant Writing – The History of the Telegraph Companies in...
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neo-Nazis persecuting the Russian minority, and said that Russia's goal was to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine. Russian air strikes and a ground invasion...
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efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution...
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contacts between the Russian Empire and the new United States of America began in 1776. Russia, while formally neutral during the American Revolution (1765–1783)...
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Russian dressing is a piquant American salad dressing consisting of mayonnaise, ketchup, and other ingredients. Russian dressing is similar to Thousand...
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electromagnetic telegraph", PC Week, vol. 3, iss. 321, 29 January 2002 (in Russian). Brooks, David, "Indian and American telegraphs", Journal of the...
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André Balazs, hotelier and restaurateur Perry Collins, founder of Russian American Telegraph Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, daughter of Ogden Mills...
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Russo-Ukrainian War (redirect from Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014))
Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after, pro-Russian unrest erupted in eastern and southern Ukraine, while unmarked Russian troops occupied...
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Franklin Leonard Pope (category American explorers)
explorations related to the Collins Overland Telegraph, otherwise known as the Russian American Telegraph. After developing a system which tracked and...
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wooden-pole bridge using cable abandoned after the disbandment of the Russian–American Telegraph expedition. Hagwilget First Bridge Hagwilget Second Bridge List...
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Ivana Zelnickova and was cultivated as an "asset" by Russian intelligence since 1977: "Russian intelligence gained an interest in Trump as far back as...
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Russian roulette (‹See Tfd›Russian: Русская рулетка, romanized: Russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single...
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An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical...
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recording Performed by the Russian Presidential Orchestra Official orchestral instrumental recording (one verse) Performed by the Russian Presidential Orchestra...
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Hiram Sibley (category Use American English from September 2023)
later hoped to build a telegraph line from Alaska to Russia through the Bering Strait, the so-called Russian American Telegraph. However, this dream collapsed...
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timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine covers the period from 1 August 2024 to the present day. Two people were killed by Russian shelling in Nikopol...
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Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had the world's first commercial telegraph company. British telegraphy dominated international telecommunications...
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The Russian mafia (‹See Tfd›Russian: ру́сская ма́фия rússkaya máfiya [ˈruskəjə ˈmafʲɪjə] or ‹See Tfd›росси́йская ма́фия rossíyskaya máfiya [rɐˈsʲijskəjə...
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Anti-Russian sentiment or Russophobia is dislike or fear or hatred of Russia, Russian people, or Russian culture. The opposite of Russophobia is Russophilia...
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the Russians. It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet Union. Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation...
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of 1960 and 1984. Conversely, there was American influence in the Russian election of 1996. Thus, the Russian influence operation in 2016 was not entirely...
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