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2 days ago · Dezhnev's discovery was never forwarded to the central government, leaving open the question of whether or not Siberia was connected to North America. [4] The first sighting of the Alaskan coastline was in 1732; this sighting was made by the Russian maritime explorer and navigator Ivan Fedorov from sea near present-day Cape Prince of Wales on the eastern boundary of the Bering Strait opposite ...
3 days ago · True Detective. season 2. The second season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, began airing on June 21, 2015, on the premium cable network HBO. With a principal cast of Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, and Vince Vaughn, the season comprises eight episodes ...
2 days ago · The Battle of Warsaw was fought from August 12–25, 1920, as Red Army forces commanded by Mikhail Tukhachevsky approached the Polish capital of Warsaw and the nearby Modlin Fortress.
4 days ago · A monument to Semyon Dezhnev, which also functions as a lighthouse, stands on top of a low hill on the cape, the tip of a high, rocky headland. The closest settlement to the cape is the village ("selo" in Russian) of Uelen, also the Eurasian settlement closest to North America.
4 days ago · Isaac Davis (1726-1810) was a British seaman and sole survivor of the massacre of the crew of The Fair American. He became an advisor to Kamehameha I and helped form the Kingdom of Hawaii. Semyon Dezhnev (1605-1673) was a Russian explorer of Siberia and sailed through the Bering Strait actually 80 years before Vitus Bering.
4 days ago · Семён Миха́йлович Будённый ( 13 ( 25 ) апреля 1883, Козюрин, Калмыцкий округ, область Войска Донского, Российская империя — 26 октября 1973, Москва, РСФСР, СССР ) — советский военный деятель и полководец, один из создателей кавалерии в РСФСР и СССР и один из первых Маршалов Советского Союза (1935), трижды Герой Советского Союза (1958, 1963, 1968).
5 days ago · In 1648 seven vessels under the command of the Cossack Semyon Dezhnyov sailed east from the mouth of the Kolyma bound for the Anadyr River basin east of the Kolyma Mountains, which was rumoured to be rich in furs.
