Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring. The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are "silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. Soda-lime glass, containing around 70% silica, accounts for around 90% of manufactured glass. The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only …
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4 May 2022 English
State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Romania 1963-1965 Leslie Glass Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Romania …
1 January 2017 English
In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …
Through a Glass, Darkly: The Foreign Office and the Soviet-Albanian Split, 1961–62 Balázs Szalontai …
1 January 2017 English
We will focus here on how British and U.S. officials assessed the prospects of Sino-Soviet relations, why they were of the opinion that NATO benefited from the Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Albanian …
Press, 2008), 246-272. Balázs Szalontai: Through a Glass, Darkly: The Foreign Office and the Soviet-Albanian …
1 January 2017 English
1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …
The Rebellion on the Other Side of the Looking Glass,” American Historical Review 123, no. 3 (2018): …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
clearly and do not send perishables. Avoid using glass containers, which are dangerous, and sort by kinds …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning a proposed Anglo-East German agreement on economic and industrial cooperation. The documents include drafts of the proposed agreement, which provides for the development …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
I would also like to add my warm thanks for the gift of rather splendid crystal glasses which you were so kind as to * …
