Estragon tries to ask for some money, but Vladimir cuts him short, explaining that they are not beggars.

Vladimir tries to get Estragon to remember Pozzo and Lucky, but all he can call to mind are the bones and getting kicked.

Vladimir notices Lucky's hat, and tries it on.

Retrospectively, " networking " of " data " in the Russian language can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio ( besides, a 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the 19-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains predictions such as " friends ' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other " and " household journals " " having replaced regular correspondence " with " information about the hosts ’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations ").

Alexander Korzhakov, former chief of the RF president's security service, told journalists that Boris Berezovsky had tried to talk him into assassinating Vladimir Gusinsky, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, singer and Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon, and others ( Novy Vzglyad newspaper, 19 October 1996 ),.

Alexander Korzhakov, former Chief of the RF president's security service, told journalists that Berezovsky had tried to talk him into assassinating Vladimir Gusinsky, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, singer and Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon, and others ( Novy Vzglyad newspaper, 19 October 1996 ).

At least one sports writer, John Shea, and numerous callers on Giants talk radio believed the Giants needed to sign Vladimir Guerrero in 2003 to remain at the top of their division.

Given that many of these avant-garde artists were born or grew up in what is present day Belarus and Ukraine ( including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko ), some sources also talk about Ukrainian avant-garde.

It also is important to illustrate the story of Igor Grabar changing Joseph Stalin into Vladimir Lenin in this painting Alex Bakharev ( talk ) 06: 32, 24 February 2008 ( UTC )

In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan.

Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.

Vladimir Dedijer argued that this rejection was " one of the primary personal motives which pushed him to do something exceptionally brave in order to prove to others that he was their equal ".

His second wife, Anna Dmitrevna Lyubimova ( 1913-2010 ), who married him in 1944, bore him two daughters, Yelena ( who worked at the Institute of Party History ) and Vera ( who worked at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC ) in the United States, and a son, Vladimir, who was a Goskino editorialist.

In April 1917 Germany allowed Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia from his exile in Switzerland, and offered him financial help.

Estragon dozes off, but, after rousing him, Vladimir is not interested in hearing about his dream.

Vladimir sings him a lullaby.

Estragon's trousers fall down, but he does not notice until Vladimir tells him to pull them up.

He continually forgets, Vladimir continually reminds him ; between them they pass the time.

The boy in Act I, a local lad, assures Vladimir that this is the first time he has seen him.

When Vladimir asks what Godot does the boy tells him, " He does nothing, sir.

* March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak ; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.

Vladimir Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats.

Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems ( such as those of Vladimir Zworykin, Marconi-EMI and Philo Farnsworth ), Baird's early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention.

In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, collecting as many of the Norse warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return the next year marched against Yaropolk.

The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths.

As a result, medieval historians often confuse him with two more famous namesakes — Vladimir the Great and Vladimir Monomakh.

He was one of the numerous sons of Vladimir the Great, presumably his second by Rogneda of Polotsk, although his actual age ( as stated in the Primary Chronicle and corroborated by the examination of his skeleton in the 1930s ) would place him among the youngest children of Volodymyr.

As Vladimir Monomakh was the patron of the village of Vydubychi where his monastery is situated, the new edition glorified that prince and made him the central figure of later narrative.

As Vladimir Jankélévitch notes in his biography, " no influence can claim to have conquered him entirely.

As with the shortened rule of Vladimir Lenin, speculators have much room to advocate their favourite theories and to develop the minor cult of personality which has formed around him.

Possessed by the persona of her grandfather Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Alia fears that her mother, about to return to Arrakis, will recognize her " abomination.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a pioneering limnologist who was a contemporary of Tansley's, combined Charles Elton's ideas about trophic ecology with those of Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky to suggest that mineral nutrient availability in a lake limited algal production which would, in turn, limit the abundance of animals that feed on algae.

* 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet ( 20 metres ) from U. S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.

Estragon wants to hear an old joke about a brothel, which Vladimir starts but cannot finish, as he is suddenly compelled to rush off and urinate.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

Subsequent data gathering in the 1980s by historians Vladimir Žerjavić and Bogoljub Kočović showed that the actual number of dead was about 1 million.

" Although Christianity in Kiev existed before Vladimir ’ s time, he had remained a pagan, accumulated about seven wives, established temples, and, it is said, taken part in idolatrous rites involving human sacrifice.

" Ukrainian and Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys ( who may or may not have been Khazars ), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God.

Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote Moscow and Muscovites, about life in pre-revolutionary Moscow.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote about the " originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity " of creating chess problems and spent considerable time doing so.

On hearing about this, Andrey renounced his claims to Vladimir and Novgorod and returned to Gorodets.

Then, Yaropolk sent his men to Novgorod, from which his other brother Vladimir had fled on receiving the news about Oleg's death.

Vladimir soon found out about Sviatopolk's intentions and threw him, his wife and Reinbern in prison.

His and Otto Bauer's ideas about the legal protection of cultural minorities were taken up by the Jewish Bund, but fiercely denounced by Vladimir Lenin.

But shortly after his televised interview where he told about plans to restore constitutional order in Chechnya he was replaced in PM's position by Vladimir Putin.

Russian music: Starting in about 1966, a group of bards arose, most prominently including Vladimir Vysotsky, and Vyacheslav Shchurov organized a number of concerts for folk singers.

Saint Jovan Vladimir ( 990-1016 ), Prince of DukljaKingdom of Duklja, about 1100 AD

" Sowell described the role of uninformed citizens (" useful idiots ") in the rise of Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, arguing that the U. S. was on a " slippery slope to tyranny " because citizens weren't thinking about the issues.

While in Russian sources the islands are mentioned for the first time in 1646, the earliest detailed information about them was provided by the explorer Vladimir Atlasov in 1697.

According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels ( published by Wikileaks in November 2010 ): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man ’ s character.

In 1927, soon after the Schrödinger equation was introduced, Vladimir Fock wrote an article about its generalization for the case of magnetic fields, where forces were dependent on velocity, and independently derived this equation.

In Moldova's schools, the discipline about the state language is called " Romanian language ", though former Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin asked for it to be changed into " Moldovan language ".