Grand Princess Olga Kievan Rus from 912-945 was ruled under the Riurikid dynasty by Igor. Olga‚ a Viking‚ joined the Riurikid family when she married him. In 942‚ she gave birth to Igor’s son‚ Sviatoslav. In 945‚ Igor and his men extorted an unusually large tribute from the Derevlians‚ a Slavic tribe. Igor decided to return back for more but was ambushed and killed. From this‚ the Riurikid family’s control over Kievan Rus was on the brink of collapse as Sviatoslav was a mere toddler‚ necessitating
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business name to United Technologies Company to connote the span of its products‚ markets‚ and activities. Today‚ UTC is a conglomerate business‚ owning many major companies. These major companies include Otis Elevator Company‚ Pratt and Whitney‚ Sikorsky‚ UTC Aerospace Systems‚ and UTC Climate‚ Controls & Security. UTC is also notable for being a United States military contractor and contributing products such as the UH-40 Black Hawk helicopter. When considering buying stock in any conglomerate
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VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE Veronika was a young girl living in Ljubljana‚ in Slovenia. She was bored of her life and she decided to kill herself‚ she attempted to commit suicide. She was living in a room she rent for herself. On a November day‚ she ordered the room meticulously; she brushed her teeth and lay down. She decided to take sleeping pills in overdose. After she took most pills‚ she began to wait for the loss of consciousness and finally‚ her aim‚ death she waited for. While she was waiting
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three of them were engaged in the position of leaders‚ which was useless. However‚ there were some misunderstandings and disagreements even among these friends‚ such as the language of communication‚ since Roman wanted to speak English‚ while Sasha and Igor preferred Russian. When the amount of the team’s members increased with Henry and Dana‚ the work on the project became slower‚ because the intra-command communication was low. Also‚ the project participants could not determine the target audience of
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lunched by Igor Svyatoslavovich‚ against the nomadic tribe of Polovtsy in 1185. In comparison‚ the other piece of Russian literature The Zadonshchina tells a tale of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 led by Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy‚ and considered by the contemporaries to be a masterpiece during the late 14th century. Both equally important literatures described two different military campaigns with two Russian princes‚ regardless of the differences
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“The time that I spent in the army was formative for me. The army was all about ensuring that you properly led the people that were assigned to you‚ that you took care of them – that’s the approach I take every day as CEO.” – Joseph “Joe” DePinto‚ President & CEO‚ 7-Eleven Two corporate executives‚ Joseph “Joe” DePinto‚ 7-Eleven’s president and CEO‚ and Larry O’ Donnell‚ President & COO of Waste Management Inc‚ went undercover for a week to discover firsthand what or how it is working for the organization
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7.252 Hz. Four trials—each with a different sized‚ same massed object—took place where the object was pulled and allowed to rise and fall‚ while a sonic ranger motion sensor graphed the object’s position. The graphs created were transferred into Igor Pro‚ where a non-linear fit was created. From this fit‚ the damping constant of the object’s motion was given‚ and the effect of air resistance on the object was determined. A relationship was discovered between the object’s area and the effect air
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projects he decided to join hands with the Music Games International (“MGI”) founders and utilize their business plan as part of the school’s competition. MGI is a small entity‚ which was founded by three unique individuals. Two of the founders (Igor Tkachenko and Roman Yukab) are internationally accomplished musicians and composers. The third founder (Alexandra (Sasha) Gimpelson) is a 1987 MBA graduate from HBS. Other MGI members include Dana Soiman (HBS MBA student)‚ Dav Clark (MIT graduate
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a sad life he has and how he needs the dog to shut out the loneliness he feels. Igor‚ Alex’s “miniature brother” is in my opinion the saddest character in this extract‚ and the most vulnerable because of his young age. He is called the “clumsy one” because he is full of bruises; bruises given to him by his father. But the affection that Alex begins to unveil for Little Igor is touching and a nice change from how Igor is treated. Also‚ the theme of family and heritage is presented. The closeness that
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There’s this uninspiring and unwarranted obsession with keeping classic monsters alive on the big screen – at least in some way‚ shape‚ or form. Dracula lives on in various reincarnations‚ like in the tolerable animated Hotel Transylvania (Adam Sandler) series‚ and the recent live-action flick‚ Dracula Untold (Luke Wilson) Similarly‚ Frankenstein also continues to be the centerpiece of silver screen productions – for better or worse. He‚ like Dracula‚ stars in Hotel Transylvania (Kevin James)
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