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Aslan Bey Vazirzade
Aslan bey Vazirzade or Aslan bey Vazirov (full name: ''Aslan bey Zeynalabdin bey oglu Vazirzade''; January 6, 1898, Baku - 1984, Baku) — one of the students of the Republic, Azerbaijani mineralogist, crystallographer and professor. Honored Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR, philatelist. For some time, he headed the Azerbaijan Society of Philatelists Early life Aslan bey Zeynalabdin bey oglu Vezirzade was born on December 6, 1898. In 1915, he graduated from the Baku Real school with a gold medal and entered the Saint Petersburg Mining University, St. Petersburg Mining University. He left his studies due to the events that took place there and returned to Baku in 1917. He became a member of the Muslim Social Democratic Party in Baku. Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was founded on May 28, 1918. In 1919, the Ministry of Public Education of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic submitted to the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic a draft law on sending 100 students to Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal Mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United Kingdom and South Africa, a coal mine and its structures are a colliery, a coal mine is called a 'pit', and the above-ground structures are a 'pit head'. In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. Coal mining has had many developments in recent years, from the early days of men tunneling, digging and manually extracting the coal on carts to large open-cut and longwall mines. Mining at this scale requires the use of draglines, trucks, conveyors, hydraulic jacks and shearers. The coal mining industry has a long history of significant negative environmental impacts on local ecosystems, health impacts on local communities and workers, and contributes heavily to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Students Of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Abroad
At the beginning of 1920, the Government of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) sent Students of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic abroad or Republic students ( az, Cümhuriyyət tələbələri) to study in higher educational institutions of Western Europe, Russia and Turkey. About 100 students from various Social stratification, strata of society were sent, for which seven million rubles were allocated to the Ministry of Public Education. After the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic#Fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (April 1920), fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Sovietization of the country following the Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan, students continued their education. Upon completion of their courses, many returned to Azerbaijan and achieved success. Some received government awards, including the Order of Lenin. Notable Republic students include Ahmed Rajabli, Aslan Vezirzade, Ashraf Aliyev, Samandar Akhundov and Teymur Aslanov. Many, however, were re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
