Iron
Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is by mass the most common element on Earth, right in front of oxygen (32.1% and 30.1%, respectively), forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust. In its metallic state, iron is rare in the Earth's crust, limited mainly to deposition by meteorites. Iron ores, by contrast, are among the most abundant in the …
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4 May 2022 English
Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …
cultural, social, and dissident life behind the Iron Curtain. They consequently reported on a hugely … addition to in-depth coverage of life behind the Iron Curtain in a period of economic reform, space travel …
1 January 2017 English
“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …
404522/ policy of cultural penetration of the Iron Curtain which we have been pursuing and which we …
1 January 2017 English
The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …
the countries of Eastern Europe to draw back the Iron Curtain closed by Stalin and to open windows to …
1 January 2017 English
Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …
with all European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain, as well as with the U.S., U.S.S.R., and …
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 …
contrary, the dictator continued to rule with an iron fist until his death in 1985, by which time Albania …
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 …
Ironically, the Prague Spring, which began as a sincere attempt to create a democratic form of socialism, convinced many …
UCL: University College London · 1 January 2017 English
the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron Curtain was anything but a foregone conclusion; indeed, from the perspective of the early postwar …
War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron Curtain was anything but a foregone conclusion; … was precisely the wrong message to send across the Iron Curtain, where people deserved their support. It … increasing flow of cultural traffic did move across the Iron Curtain – delegations, individuals, exhibitions … public, nor the impact of British culture behind the Iron Curtain. A 11 TNA: FO 371/111496, Minute by Brown … people’s minds; contemporaries on both sides of the Iron Curtain understood cultural exchange as a means …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
UK nn-inf- r *% o u tcome was satisfactori iron tne UK point of view, in that I l l L T u l ° …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of documents concerning political asylum cases in Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include requests to Britain for asylum by Ethiopian students in Czechoslovakia; the removal of an …
to it to amass sufficient evidence to reach cast-iron conclusions. There is some evidence that in Hungary …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
low-grade manganese as well as some small deposits of iron ore, gold, silver, lead and zinc, and there may …
