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Definition: mir from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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(1856) : a village community in czarist Russia in which land was owned jointly but cultivated by individual families

Mir

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Russian space station, the core of which was launched on 20 February 1986. It was permanently occupied until 1999, and then purposely brought down on 23 March 2001 to crash into the Pacific Ocean. During its life, Mir travelled more than 3 billion km/2 billion mi, and was home to 104 cosmonauts. The world's first modular space station, Mir weighed 135 tonnes and its core, weighing 20.9 tonnes, had four compartments for work, living, the engines, and docking. Mir evolved from, and somewhat resembled, the earlier series of Salyut space stations, but carried several improvements. Instead of one docking port there were six, four of which eventually had scientific and technical modules attached to them. The first was the 11-tonne Kvant (Russian ‘quantum’) astrophysics module in 1987. Mir had expanded to six modules by the early 1990s. The space shuttle Atlantis docked on 27 June 1995, exchanging crew members in the first of nine joint US-Russian missions to the station. A small wheat crop, …
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Mir The space shuttle Atlantis is seen here...
Successor to the Soviet Union's SALYUT SPACE STATIONS . The core module (also known as the base block), which was launched on 1986 February 20, was the backbone of the Mir SPACE STATION . Its most notable innovation was the provision of six docking ports, which enabled additional modules to be…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
(Russian, 'peace', 'world'). The core module of the Soviet space station so named was launched on 19 February 1986 and was first occupied a month later by the cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev, who spent 53 days adjusting equipment and bringing the complex into working order. In March…
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From Collins Dictionary of Astronomy
(from the Russian for ‘Peace’ or ‘World’) The Soviet space station of modular design that superseded Salyut 7 (see Salyut ). The Soviet authorities announced the launch of Mir on Feb 20. 1986, and the first crew, cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Soloviev, arrived there Mar 13. 1986. The 20-tonne…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Russian space station, the core of which was launched on 20 February 1986. It was permanently occupied until 1999, and then purposely brought down on 23 March 2001 to crash into the Pacific Ocean. During its life, Mir travelled more than 3 billion km/2 billion mi, and was home to 104 cosmonauts. The…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Russian space station . It consists of a core module launched in 1986 and five additional modules launched separately over the next decade and attached to the core unit to create a large, versatile space laboratory. The third generation of Russian space stations ( see Salyut ), Mir featured six…
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Full text Article MIR [мир, міp] (russian)

From Dictionary of Untranslatables
ENGLISH world, peace, peasant commune FRENCH monde, paix, commune paysanne GERMAN Welt, Friede GREEK kosmos [ϰόσμος], eirene [εἰϱήνη] LATIN mundus, pax ➤ PEACE , WORLD , and CIVIL SOCIETY , OIKEIÔSIS , …
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On June 1, 1970, the USSR launched the Soyuz-9 spacecraft as part of the initial preparation for a reorientation of the Soviet space program in the direction of establishing a permanent human presence in orbit. The Soyuz-9, manned by Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov, orbited the earth for 18…
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(mēr), former Russian peasant community. The mir, which antedated serfdom (16th cent.) in Russia, persisted in its primitive form until after the Russian Revolution of 1917. In a community of free peasants the land was owned jointly by the mir; in a community of serfs, lands reserved for serf use…
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Full text Article Mir-i Arab Madrasa

From Architectural Excellence: 500 Iconic Buildings Full text Article 16th Century
Mir-i Arab Madrasa
Architect: Unknown Completed: c. 1536 Location: Kalon Square, Bukhara, Uzbekistan Style/Period: Islamic/Shaybanid Mir-i Arab Madrasa (Islamic religious school) is named after a Yemeni sheikh who exerted a powerful influence on the 16th century ruler of the Uzbek state, Ubaydallah Khan. Bukhara grew…
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Full text Article Mir Castle Complex

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Mir Castle Complex
Belarus Criteria - Interchange of values; Significance in human history The Mir Castle complex vividly symbolizes the history of Belarus and, as such, it is one of the major national symbols of the country. It lies in a fertile region in the geographical centre of Europe, at the crossroads of the…
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