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22 hours ago · NA: January 1988. Genre (s) Puzzle. tile-matching. Mode (s) Single-player. multiplayer. Tetris (Russian: Тетрис [a]) is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. [1] It has been published by several companies on more than 65 platforms, setting a Guinness world record for the most ported game.
22 hours ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
22 hours ago · The tiger is a carnivore and an apex predator feeding mainly on ungulates, with a particular preference for sambar deer, Manchurian wapiti, barasingha and wild boar. Tigers kill large ungulates like gaur [109] and opportunistically smaller prey like monkeys, peafowl and other ground-based birds, porcupines and fish.
22 hours ago · Kievan Rus'. Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] [11] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse ...
22 hours ago · Poland, [e] officially the Republic of Poland, [f] is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the seventh largest EU country, covering a combined area of 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi).
22 hours ago · Medieval and early modern era 1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, or pre-Petrian literature, to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization ...
22 hours ago · Plot In 1996, aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, Brock Lovett and his team search the wreck of RMS Titanic. They recover a safe they hope contains a necklace with a large diamond known as the Heart of the Ocean. Instead, they find only a drawing of a young naked woman wearing the necklace. The sketch is dated April 14, 1912, the same day the Titanic struck the iceberg that ...
