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	Letter Motivation
		The letters paint an engrossing portrait of asoldier and husband who was trying to do his patriotic and familial duty, and of a wife trying to cope with loneliness and responsibility while longing for her husband's safe return.
		Letter of Credence - A Letter of Credence is a formal letter sent by one head of state to another formally accrediting a named individual (usually but not always a diplomat) to be their ambassador in the country of the head of state receiving the letter of credence.
		A letter of recall is the letter sent recalling an ambassador, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy.
	co8.muscyberspace.com /lettermotivation.html (1490 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kievian Letter
		The Kievian Letter is an early 10th century (or possibly 11th century) letter written by a Khazarian Jewish community in Kiev.
		The letter, a Hebrew-language recommendation written on behalf of one member of their community, was part of an enormous collection brought to Cambridge by Solomon Schechter from the Cairo Geniza.
		Linguists are interested in the letter because the names of the community members are of Turkic, Slavic, and Hebrew origins (for example, names such as: "Hanukkah," "Yehudah," "Gostata," and "Kiabar").
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kievian_Letter (905 words)

	Kievian Letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The letter, a Hebrew-language recommendation written on behalf of one member of their community, was part of an enormous collection brought to Cambridge by Solomon Schechter from the Cairo Genizah.
		The Turkic runiform inscription on the Kievian Letter.
		On the other hand, from the letter itself it seems that the Khazar authorities could do little to help the Jewish community of Kiev; the letter itself had ended up in Egypt, and the beleaguered alms-seeker had presumably travelled thousands of miles in his search for relief.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kievian_Letter (811 words)

	Letter to Armenian President Kocharian (Human Rights Watch Press release, )
		As the March 19 letter noted, some religious organizations that were subject to violent attacks in 1995 have been allowed to register; however, other organizations have not, among them, as the letter pointed out, the Jehovah's Witnesses.
		Statements by government officials about Jehovah's Witnesses cited in our January letter, together with the government's failure to prosecute or discipline those involved in the 1995 attacks on non-apostolic faiths, contribute to a climate of hostility in which this discrimination and violence is perpetrated.
		For instance, in our November 13, 1998, letter to Chief Procurator Agvan Hovsepyan, we requested information on the number of police officers investigated and convicted, the offenses for which these police officers were charged, the sentences they received and the facilities where they are currently serving their sentences.
	www.hrw.org /press/1999/jun/koch0617-ltr.htm (2587 words)

	Advocacy Letter
		Always a consummate professional, she was also a prominent social reformer whose interest in the environmental causes of disease and in promoting equitable living conditions developed during her years as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull-House.
		Chain Letter - Chain Letter Chain letter - A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to one or more new recipients.
		A chain letter can be considered a type of meme, a self-replicating piece of information that uses a human host to distribute copies of itself.
	ve47.healthyounger.com /advocacyletter.html (930 words)

	Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The letter said that this David was visited by envoys from Kievan Rus to ask about religious matters- this could be connected to the Vladimir conversion which took place during the same time period.
		However, it should be noted that the authenticity of this letter, the Mandgelis Document, was questioned by such scholars as D.
		A Kievian prince named Oleg (not to be confused with Oleg of Kiev) was reportedly kidnapped by "Khazars" in 1078 and shipped off to Constantinople, although most scholars believe that this is a reference to the Kipchaks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khazars (5810 words)

	Kievian Letter - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Kievian Letter is an early 10th century letter written by a Khazarian Jewish community in Kiev.
		Scholars are interested in the letter because the names of the community members are of Turkic, Slavic, and Hebrew origins (for example, names such as: "Hanukkah," "Yehudah," "Gostata," and "Kiabar").
		On the other hand, from the letter itself it seems that the Khazar authorities could do little to help the Jewish community of Kiev; the letter itself had ended up in Egypt, and the beleagured alms-seeker had presumably travelled thousands of miles in his search for relief.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Kievian_Letter (815 words)

	Kyiv [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Letter The Schechter Letter is a communique from an unnamed Khazar author to an unidentified Jewish dignitary.
		Men of letters The man of letters stood in many cultures for what we might take to be the contemporary intellectual; the distinction not having great weight when literacy was not fairly universal (and, incidentally, not assumed of a woman).
		Men of letters are also termed literati (from the Latin), as a group; literatus, in the singular, is hardly used in English....
	www.wikimirror.com /Kyiv (10066 words)

	Kievian - Qwika
		Kievian Letter The Kievian Letter is an early 10th century letter...
		During this Kievian period the Rus experienced a period of...
		Nestor was kievian and the Slavian South, Kiev and Podniprov...
	www.qwika.com /find/Kievian (405 words)

	Kievian Letter - Result for Kievian Letter - Meaning of Kievian Letter - Definition of Kievian Letter - Dictionary of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The '''Kievian Letter''' is an early 10th century letter written by a Khazar ian Judaism Jewish community in Kiev.
		The letter, a Hebrew -language recommendation written on behalf of one member of their community, was part of an enormous collection brought to Cambridge by Solomon Schechter from the Genizah#The_Cairo_Genizah Cairo Genizah.
		Scholars are interested in the letter because the names of the community members are of Turkic, Slavic peoples Slavic, and Hebrew origins (for example, names such as: " Hanukkah," "Yehudah," "Gostata," and "Kiabar").
	www.mauspfeil.net /Kievian_Letter.html (912 words)

	Khazars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Schechter Letter relates the story of a campaign against Khazaria by HLGW (Oleg) around 941; this calls into question the timeline of the Primary Russian Chronicle and other related works.
		A letter in Hebrew dated 4746 (985/986 CE) refers to "our lord David, the Khazar prince" who lived in Taman.
		The letter said that this David was visited by Russians to ask about religious matters- this could be connected to the Vladimir conversion which took place during the same time period.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Khazar (4818 words)

	Our Slavic Language
		After their Baptism they were forced to use Roman and Greek letters in the transcription of their Slavic words but these were not suitable...
		At once he formed the letters and proceeded then to write the words of the Gospel in Slavonic: 'In the beginning was the Word' (Jn.
		The invention of the Slavic letters and introduction of the Slavonic language into worship could be considered a genial work, a real miracle, since it surpassed all the literary attempts made in the Middle Ages.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /spirit/chap4.htm (1355 words)

	Khazars - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is from this letter that the preceding list is taken.
		It is not entirely ruled out that the Bulanids were in fact Khagans rather than Beks, though their power certainly appears to be that of the Beks.
		A short story in which a descendant of King David is sent by Hasdai ibn Shaprut to Khazaria and is a witness to the Rus' destruction of Khazaria.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Khazars (2956 words)

	Letter Motivation
		Her long minority, under so careful a guardian as Coulanges, had also raised her fortune to the amount of 100,000 crowns--a large sum for the most part, though François de Rabutin, the author of valuable memoirs on the Isle of Rhé in July 1627.
		Unlike any other text of its kind, this guide takes the reader from the diaries kept by Owen Johnston Hopkins while he was in all matters of business the good angel of the Hotel Rambouillet, and her special ally was Mademoiselle de la Fayette.
		Holliman's performance as a young woman making unpopular decisions yet determined to stand by her convictions is both tender and heartfelt.
	co90.mysl-clan.com /lettermotivation.html (1382 words)

	RAMBAUD ON THE KIEVAN RUS' IN THE APPANAGE PERIOD--UNITY IN DIVISION
		Vladimir declined the honor, alleging the claims of Oleg and his brothers to the throne of Kief.
		It is at present ascertained that they never belonged to Vladimir, but it was the policy of his descendants, the Tzars of Moscow, to propagate this legend.
		It was almost a war between the Old and New Russia, the Russia of the Dnieper and that of the Volga.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Ramapp1.html (4624 words)

	Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At some point during the late ninth or early tenth century Kiev fell under the rule of Varangians (see Askold and Oleg) and became the nucleus of the Rus polity.
		The date given for Oleg's conquest of the town in the Primary Chronicle is 882, but some historians, such as Omeljan Pritsak and Constantine Zuckerman, dispute this and maintain that Khazar rule continued as late as the 920s (documentary evidence exists to support this assertion - see the Kievian Letter and Schechter Letter.)
		From Oleg's seizure of the city until 1169 Kiev was the capital of the principal Varangian /East-Slavic state, known as Kievan Rus' (or Kyivan Rus').
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiev (3197 words)

	Polish Free State Newsfaxes - ThroneWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Due to an increasingly agitated series of letters between the Duchess and the Largoista regime in Spain, the Duchy decided to bar all Spanish shipping from their ports, fearing saboteurs and infiltrators of all kinds.
		Not to be outdone by their Kievian rivals, the Poles welcomed the arrival of Aztec merchant ships (the first in generations) at Stralsund and Sopot.
		Frieda was greatly, greatly displeased to learn her drunken husband had gotten himself thrown into a Kievian jail and charged with fomenting rebellion and unrest against a sovereign nation.
	test.throneworld.com /wiki/index.php/Polish_Free_State_Newsfaxes (7283 words)

	Hetq Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to this project, a funicular railway, sport centers and outdoor cafés were to be built, along with a metro station near Kievian Bridge.
		Also under Bazeyan and Narek Sarkissian, land allocations were made for all the eye-catching establishments between the Haghtanak and Kievian Bridges-the very establishments that mayor Nazarian considers illegal.
		Sarkissian approaches the question from another point of view, which is that when Nazarian turned down the requests of the owners of those establishments to enlarge their property, they decided to solve the problem another way.
	www.hetq.am /eng/society/h-1002-vabrahamyan.html (1745 words)

	DOBREVA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Since in some cases 1000 letters is not enough to get a clear result, the relative frequencies of excerpts consisting of randomly chosen two, three, four, five and more psalms from those which were already available, were calculated and included as additional data for our experiments.
		After the receipt of the letter frequencies from all studied excerpts, the data are transferred to STATISTICA for Windows‘ where the relative letter frequencies are calculated.
		From the view-point of the Slavist, this would mean that we are able to study, e.g., the nasal vowels usage in one text; or in all the texts belonging to the same manuscripts, or in all texts classified as Bulgarian, Russian or Serbian, or in the whole available group of texts.
	www.ach.org /abstracts/1998/abs8.htm (1705 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He is famed for his "letters" Igeret Rav Sherira, a history from Talmudic times until his own time in which he explains the development of the Talmud.
		Svyatoslav I, ruler of the Kievian Russians, defeated the Khazars and temporarily occupied their capital.
		Some historians believe that the Khazars then converted to Islam in order to obtain an alliance with their Moslems neighbors, although there is evidence of a continued Khazar kingdom for another 50 years.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /900.htm (2544 words)

	News and whatever....:) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Without the ambitious Bulgarian tsar Boris I, the Slavic alphabet would be forgotten and the numerous years of hard work of Cyril and Methodius and their disciples would be wasted.
		Their work enabled a few nations to express themselves in their own language, not using foreign letters, which did not match all the sounds in the sounds of their speech.
		Now, millions of people are thankful to the brothers for something, which in a few of the cases, helped their nations to be preserved through the time.
	wings.buffalo.edu /gsa/bigsa/works/essay.html (3716 words)

	History of Russia - Wikisource
		Thus the Russian k (the Greek kappa) has been rendered by k, the letter x (aspirated k, the Greek khi) by kh, and the letter w by ch.
		I have sought to relieve the Russian names of their redundant s (the Germans employ seven letters, s c h t s c h, to express the single Russian chtcha), and of the f f and the double w, which give them such a repulsive appearance.
		IlovaÃ®ski, 'Researches on the Origin of Russia,' and the 'History of Russia,' Kievian period, Moscow, 1872; both contrary to the Varangian-Norman theory.
	wikisource.org /wiki/History_of_Russia (3081 words)

	August 2001
		And it was just at this time that he entered into friendly relations with the Croatian Bishop Strossmayer, thereby resuming the thread of an ancient tradition, one which was apparently marginal but which in reality was pregnant with a splendid future.
		During his stay in Zagreb, he also published a letter in the Russian newspaper Novoie Vremia, wherein he refuted the widespread opinion in Russia that the Croats were the instruments of the Austro-Hungarian government’s attempt to Latinize the Eastern Slavs.
		Mgr Strossmayer lamented this in a letter to Father Martynov: « The Pope is acting against the Slavs.
	www.crc-internet.org /aug1d.htm (8258 words)

	Czech history The Great Moravian Empire 833 - 906
		The Pope agreed and sent Svatopluk a letter entitled "Industrie tue".
		The Slavonic liturgy, nevertheless, did not fall as a consequence, of Methodius' death.
		Methodius' disciples worked in Bohemia and in South-Slavic regions, and ultimately the Slavonic liturgy planted its roots in Kievian Russia.
	www.czeckitout.com /tjeck_history2.htm (1041 words)

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		For a Kievian brought up before the Revolution, the loss of privacy, the lack of civility and the humiliation of having to share your home on a permanent basis with strangers were devastating.
		While Bulgakov might have sympathy for the plight of Zoyka's loss of her six-room apartment, he had little sympathy for the Soviet policy for dealing with the housing shortage or the New Economic Policy, which forced or encouraged the type of anti-social behavior displayed by the characters in the play.
		In his letter to the Stalin in 1931, Bulgakov said, "In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR I was the one and only literary wolf.
	rutheater.home.att.net /bull.htm (16031 words)

	languagehat.com: Comment on ORFOGRAMMA.
		There are swathes of English vocabulary mostly, if not only used by people with some French--"quotidian," "milliard" and "précis" are three words that spring to mind--and the thought that people bilingual in Russian might have their own little sub-vocabulary--of standard English--on similar principles, seems like something from a parallel universe.
		(Where instead of being conquered by integrated Vikings from Normandy, it was the integrated Vikings of Kievian Rus' who, after a mercenary expedition to support Harold, usurped him, and imposed East Slavic as the language of court and administration.
		I suppose though that in English "letter which must be determined by orthographic rules rather than sound alone" is almost synonymous with "letter".
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2175 (1154 words)

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