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Premise. Foreseeing the destruction of Earth, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called Earthship Ark, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 200 miles (320 km) long. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Their goal is to find and seed a new world of a distant star.
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region.
Aug 8, 2013 · The following is a timeline of key events before, during and after the August 2008 conflict. April 2008 Russia begins to cooperate fully with the governments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, enraging the Georgians.
August 1 - Five Georgians were injured in a bomb explosion targeting a car. South Ossetians were responsible for instigating this incident, which marked the opening of hostilities. In response, several South Ossetian militiamen were hit.[2] South Ossetian separatists began shelling Georgian villages.
The Starlost: Created by Harlan Ellison. With Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, William Osler. A group of humans must explore a vast starship in order to find the controls to save it from destruction.
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Aug 7, 2021 · The August 2008 invasion of Georgia was a Beta test for future aggression against Russia’s neighbors and a dry run for the tactics and strategies that would later be deployed in the 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
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During WW2, Georgia was among the targets of the German Case Blue (Fall Blau) offensive in 1942, which aimed to seize the oilfields of the Caucasus region, but Axis troops were stopped before reaching Georgian borders. Between 1941 and 1945, about 700,000 ethnic Georgians served in the Soviet forces (about 190,000 of them were be killed in ...
