Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
A bicolor cat is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other colour, for example solid black, tabby, or colourpointed. There are various patterns of a bicolour cat. These range from the Van-patterned to a solid colour with a throat locket or medallion. Bicolour coats are found in many cat breeds, as well as being common in domestic longhair and domestic shorthair cats.
Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee. It was first released in 1996 and published by Victor Gollancz. It came in 137th place in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the most loved British books of all time, making it one of fifteen books by Pratchett in the Top 200.
Pionerskaya Pravda is an all-Russian newspaper. Initially it was an all-Union newspaper of the Soviet Union. Its name may be translated as "Truth for Young Pioneers".
Salihorsk or Soligorsk is a city in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Salihorsk District. As of 2024, it has a population of 97,818.
The 3M6 Shmel is an MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile of the Soviet Union. Its GRAU designation is "3M6" and its NATO reporting name is AT-1 Snapper.
Oleg Nikolayevich Trubachyov was a Russian linguist. A researcher of the etymology of Slavic languages and Slavic onomastics, he was considered a specialist in historical linguistics and lexicography. He was a Doctor of Sciences in Philological Sciences, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as the editor-in-chief of the Etimologiya yearbook. His works are on the etymology of Slavic languages and on East Slavic onomastics.
Leopold the Cat is a Soviet animated short film series about a good-natured and prudent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow tie even when swimming. Throughout the series, he has to deal with two mischievous mice, Grey and White. The animation was produced at T/O Ekran in 1975–1987 and its runtime is 87 minutes. As of 1987, there were 11 episodes in total. In 1995, most of the episodes were released on DVD.
Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.
Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev was a Soviet and Russian poet, a laureate of Lenin Komsomol Prize (1981), a USSR State Prize (1985), and Bunin Prize (2007).
Shebeke - are windows filled with coloured glass, created by Azerbaijani folk craftsmen from small wooden parts without glue and nails.
The Kórmchaia Book, also known as the Books of the Pilot (Russian: Ко́рмчая книга, Ко́рмчая from кормчий, Church Slavonic: кръмьчии 'helmsman, ship's pilot'; Pidalion or Nomocanon, are collections of church and secular law, which constituted guide books for the management of the church and for the church court of Orthodox Slavic countries and were also the transmission of several older texts. They were written in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic.
Elchin Safarli is an Azerbaijani novelist and journalist. He has published ten novels, written and published in Russian. Composer Asya Sultanova set some of his work to music.
"Boys" is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov.
The FC Istiklol 2020 season is Istiklol's twelfth Tajik League season, of which they are defending Tajik League and Cup Champions, whilst they will also participate in the Tajik Supercup and AFC Champions League.
The Front of National Revolutionary Action was a youth national-patriotic organization that existed in Russia at the end of the 20th century. Until the end of 1992, it was called the Union of Russian Youth (SRM).
Manifesto to the Ukrainian people with ultimate demands to the Ukrainian Rada is an official document of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, prepared by Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Lenin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Leon Trotsky, People's Commissar of Nationalities Joseph Stalin.
Marina Devovna Loshak is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. Director of the Pushkin Museum (2013-2023).
Andrey Viktorovich Malgin is a Soviet and Russian journalist, literary critic, publisher, blogger, and entrepreneur.
