The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times.During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbl...
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Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, ...
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Celebrities who fall on tough legal times can often rely on their fellow stars for support.Jodie Foster spoke out on Mel Gibson's behalf after his anti-Semitic tirade last summer. The cast of "The ...
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Prime Minister John Howard warned Thursday that water
allocations for farmers in the country's main agricultural region
will be cut unless substantial rain comes in the next two months to
ea...
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Barcelona (dpa) - Untouchable Rafael Nadal kept a firm Spanish
grip on the Barcelona Open trophy for a fifth straight year as he won
the title for the third consecutive occa...
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Sydney (dpa) - Sydney's Taronga has one of the best zoos in the
world but it's on the side of the harbour opposite the tourist hotels
and seeing everything would take the be...
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Barcelona (dpa) - Untouchable Rafael Nadal kept a firm Spanish
grip on the Barcelona Open trophy for a fifth straight year as he won
the title for the third consecutive occa...
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"Reviewing handset shipments for 2006, you would have to give a B+ for Effort but only C+ for Results," says Jake Saunders, Asia-Pacific research director for ABI Research. "Almost 294 million han...
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Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot share more than a few commonalities with fellow buzz band Voxtrot. Both rose to (semi-) prominence after releasing acclaimed non-albums, hailed as the darlings of SXSW b...
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Brussels (dpa) - The European Union's top foreign-policy official,
Javier Solana, congratulated Georgia on Monday for having held a
peaceful presidential election.
...
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President
George W. Bush on Monday congratulated Georgian leader Mikhail
Saakashvili for winning a presidential election that the
opposition has said ...
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The Al Gore boomlet, which has been gathering force in recent months, has crested in Ryan Lizza's New Republic piece this week, in which he argues that Gore is the only Democrat who can stop Hillar...
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov
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