In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).

Brest ( Берасце, Bierascie ;, earlier name Brasta ; ; ), formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug (" Brześć nad Bugiem " in Polish ) and Brest-Litovsk (" Brześć Litewski " in Polish, literally " Lithuanian Brest "), is a city ( population 310, 800 in 2010 ) in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet.

After the battles of Krupczyce ( 17 September ) and Terespol ( 19 September ), the new army started its march towards the Polish capital.

* Warsaw – Siedlce – Terespol – ( Minsk ) ( 160, 120 km / h ) – being upgraded to 160 km / h

* 1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.

File: Poland terespol. jpg | Old communist-era passport exit stamp from Terespol into Brest.

A number of Jews were removed from the assembly and were sent as slave labourers to the airport at Malaszewicze, near Terespol.

It is 51 km far from Brest and Chełm, 64 from Terespol, 86 from Lublin and 77 from Liuboml ( Volyn Oblast, Ukraine ).

Terespol () is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus.

Another crossing into Brest is located at Kukuryki northwest of Terespol.

File: Terespol. JPG | Train in Terespol.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's novel Oath of Fealty features an arcology.

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* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.

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* The 1984 Frederick Forsyth novel The Fourth Protocol features an elderly Kim Philby's involvement in a plot to trigger a nuclear explosion in Britain.

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* The novel The Integral Trees features long straight floating trees which are curved at each end in opposite directions, giving them the shape of the mathematical integral sign, but are themselves integral to the life cycle of the inhabitants.

* Chip Kidd's 2008 novel The Learners is about the Milgram experiment, and features Stanley Milgram as a character.

* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.

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* The 2005 Star Trek: Titan novel The Red King opens with the disappearance of a Romulan fleet and features Donatra, the Romulan commander featured in Star Trek: Nemesis, working alongside William Riker and his crew.

The novel Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards, set after The Ice Warriors and before Fury from the Deep, features the Second Doctor utilising the device to break through a concrete wall.

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Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

It had the features of a man bewhiskered by clumps of loose feathers.

The new editions of topographic maps being made by the federal government are excellent for orienting yourself to the natural features of the site.

The constant-temperature contours are much smoother than those observed at 4.3 mm by Coates ( 1959 ) and apparently the emission at 8 mm is not nearly so sensitive to differences in surface features.

Person To Person ventilates the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins -- both in Southern California ( Channel 5 at 10:30 ) KQED Summer Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello De Musica ( Channel 9 at 8:30 ).

This features the marching songs of several nations, recorded as though the various national bands were marching by your reviewing stand.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

The average overall albedo of Earth, its planetary albedo, is 30 to 35 %, because of the covering by clouds, but varies widely locally across the surface, depending on the geological and environmental features.

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

The WD-2 robot can change its facial features by activating specific facial points on a mask, with each point possessing three degrees of freedom.

Other technical features reveal a shaft driven behind the mask at the desired facial point, driven by a DC motor with a simple pulley and a slide screw.

The minimalist soundtrack features a memorable deep-toned electronic " heartbeat ", which quickens as the asteroid density is reduced by the player's fire.

Asteroids also features various sound effects, each of which is implemented by its own circuitry.

Anti-Altaicists Gerard Clauson ( 1956 ), Gerhard Doerfer ( 1963 ), and Alexander Shcherbak argued that the words and features shared by Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic were for the most part borrowings and that the rest could be attributed to chance resemblances.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

Axons are distinguished from dendrites by several features, including shape ( dendrites often taper while axons usually maintain a constant radius ), length ( dendrites are restricted to a small region around the cell body while axons can be much longer ), and function ( dendrites usually receive signals while axons usually transmit them ).

Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's Dorothy and Agatha and The London Blitz Murders ' by Max Allan Collins.

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Skeptics claim that many of the allegedly hominin-like features seen in the Ardipithecus material are found elsewhere among living and fossil primates, and that claims about its hominin status and locomotor habits are not adequately supported by the available evidence.

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* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.