In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* Winston ; Robert W. Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot ( 1928 ) online edition

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

This Measure again was approved by large majorities in both the Convocations and the Church Assembly ; but a Resolution directing that it should be presented to His Majesty was defeated in the House of Commons on June 14, 1928 by forty-six votes.

The 1928 revised forms of Matrimony and Baptism were quite widely adopted, but those of other rites tended not to be ; the consequence, in practice, being very wide variation in liturgical practice from parish to parish, with very few churchmen adhering consistently to the strict observation of either the 1662 or the 1928 forms of worship.

Andrew R. Cobb also designed University of King's College buildings including the main building and chapel, 1928 ; dormitory, 1931.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

Lake Ladoga ( or ; in Finnish Nevajärvi ; ) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg.

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

Around 1927, the virtuoso's situation brightened ; he had exciting commissions from Diaghilev and made concert tours in Russia ; in addition, he enjoyed a very successful staging of The Love for Three Oranges in Leningrad ( as Saint Petersburg was then known ).

In 1922 Oleg Losev developed two-terminal, negative resistance amplifiers for radio ; however, he perished in the Siege of Leningrad.

; 1959, Leningrad – First performance of the Shostakovich orchestration

Julian Karol Sochocki (, ; February 2, 1842, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927, Leningrad, Soviet Union ) was a Polish mathematician.

* Leningrad 1960, board 1, 10 / 12 (+ 9 − 1 = 2 ), team silver ;

Sergei Kirov, head of the Party organisation in Leningrad, was killed in 1934 ; some believed his death was ordered by Stalin.

In response to the 10 February 1948 decree on so-called ' formalist ' composers, his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich was dismissed from his professorships in Leningrad and Moscow ; the then 21-year-old Rostropovich quit the conservatory, dropping out in protest.

They are the products of different design bureaus ; the T-80 is from the SKB-2 design bureau of the Kirov Factory ( LKZ ) in Leningrad while the T-72 is from the Uralvagonzavod factory in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

Some T-28s took part in the 1941 winter defence of Leningrad and Moscow, but after late 1941, they were rare in Red Army service ; a few were operated by enemy forces.

However, Smyslov's first attempt at adult competition outside his own city fell short ; he placed 12th – 13th in the Leningrad – Moscow International tournament of 1939 with 8 / 17 in an exceptionally strong field.

Keres struggled at Leningrad – Moscow 1939 with a shared 12th – 13th place ; he wrote that he had not had enough time to prepare for this very strong event, where he faced many Soviet stars for the first time.

The Soviet Chess Federation organized the " Absolute Championship of the USSR " in 1941, with the top six finishers from the 1940 championship meeting each other four times ; it was split between Leningrad and Moscow.

He won his first Soviet title at Leningrad 1963 ; he tied with Boris Spassky and Ratmir Kholmov in the tournament itself, then won the playoffs.

In 1973 he failed to advance from the Leningrad Interzonal ; he tied for 5th – 6th places with 10 / 17, with Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi winning.

Lake Onega ( also known as Onego, ; ; ; ) is a lake in the north-west European part of Russia, located on the territory of Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast.

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

Narayanan – AIR India Reporter 1988 Court Page No. 1381 ; 1988 Volume No. 3 SCC Court Cases Page No. 366 ; 1988 PLJR 78 – Although an affidavit may be taken as proof of the facts stated therein, the Courts have no jurisdiction to admit evidence by way of affidavit.

It is possible to prove many theorems using neither the axiom of choice nor its negation ; such statements will be true in any model of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZF ), regardless of the truth or falsity of the axiom of choice in that particular model.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

Medical Hypotheses, April 1999 ; 53 ( 4 ): 338 – 344.

Medical Hypotheses, 1997 ; 49: 303 – 306.

Alp Arslan ( ālp arslān ; ālb ārslān ; 1029 – 15 December 1072 ) was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty.

* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

* 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration ; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

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