Leonids

able to see the annual Leonid meteor shower with its peak happening close to dawn on the morning of November 18th, 2015. Researchers are predicting about 15 meteors per hour around the time of peak. According to researchers you may even be able to see a shooting star every three minutes on average. The moon will be a waxing crescent so the researchers predict that if you observe close to moon set around 10 p.m. chances are slim that you will see a meteor. The term Leonid refers to the tale of following

Native American Astronomy For many years astronomers and people alike have constantly heard about the observations and records of the Chinese and Europeans. No other culture can provide as much information as that gathered by the Chinese and Europeans, but there are many other cultures that observed and recorded the night sky, one of those being the Native Americans. During the last fifteen to twenty years archaeoastronomers have uncovered much concerning the beliefs and records of Native Americans

Leonid Afremov Artist Leonid Afremov was born on July 12, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus. He is a Russian-Israeli known for using palette knives to spread oil paint across the canvas. Growing up his parents noticed at a young age that he was gifted in art. In college, Afremov took as many classes as he could that had to do with the subject of art. He also took many private lessons from local famous artist. He became more knowledgeable about many artist such as Picasso, Monet, Dali, and etc. Afremov

Leonid Brezhnev, who took power after Khrushchev, attempted to reinstate Stalinism back into the Soviet Union. His reign created the neo-Stalinist period in Russia, albeit with a series of economic reforms that favored light industries and the production

knowledge into the lyrics and alert other people to the chaos going on around them. They also knew about the leaders of the time period and the things that they had done. During the Cold War Leonid Brezhnev took over the Soviet Union after Nikita Krushnev. Brezhnev began to take over other countries (“Leonid Brezhnev- Pushing”, 2000). Brezhnev believed that the Soviet Union

One artist that never fails to inspire me is Leonid Afremov. Afremov is still alive today and continues to create amazing works of art. He makes sure to put his whole heart into his work and the way he does this with his distinctive style stands out to me the most. Even when facing kidney damage and oppression, never once did he decide to quit his dream. Artist Leonid Afremov was born on the twelfth of July, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus. His parents are Bella Afremov, who worked in a metal factory

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) practice has been increasingly prevalent in modern infrastructure delivery and public service provision, such as in transportation, electric power, waste management, health care, and other industries (Broadbent and Iaughlin, 2004; Essig and Batran, 2005; Hodge and Greve, 2007; Wang, 2015; Zhang et al., 2015). Popularity of PPPs is mainly attributed to some inherent efficiency advantages (Grimsey and Lewis, 2007; Hart, 2003; Yang and Wang, 2013). Unlike conventional

An entire generation in Cold War Soviet Russia was born to a nuclear bomb, raised under the constant threat of war, and seemed doomed to suffocate by their own government, until they were emancipated by a life force that was as formidable as unlikely a savior. This paper discusses the role of the Beatles and their music in the cultural, political and social revolutions that took place Cold War Russia. Drawing upon various conversations and anecdotes that Leslie Woodhead discusses in his 2013 book

Moscow Summit, May 1972: Nixon & Brezhnev (The Era of Détente Begins) It is ironic that Nixon and Kissinger are identified with the beginning of détente, as first Nixon only intended to have limited accommodation with the Soviet Union. Nixon believed that no summit meeting without adequate preparation had the prospect for concrete agreements. Both Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger based their policies on the principles of negotiations, nuclear sufficiency and linkage. While Nixon was the quintessential

revolutions in the Central Asia and the Baltic states. The inability to keep up with the United States economically in the 1970s and 1980s along with the later reforms to improve the Soviet economy in Gorbachev’s term led to the downfall of the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev had taken over as the head of the Communist party in 1964 by replacing Nikita Khrushchev, an anti-Stalinist who strived for reform and modernization in the USSR. Brezhnev was an old Communist that wanted to keep the government and its policies