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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1804 (857 words) |
 | The 1804 Dollar may be the single most desired coin in all of numismatic history. |
| 1804 silver dollars, of which there are just fifteen known, often set price records for rare coins when they're sold. |
| That price was more recently eclipsed by the sale of another 1804 dollar, known as the "Stickney" specimen, which sold in April, 1997 for a world record price for a rare coin sold at auction at $1,815,000. |
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on RUSSIAN LITERATURE (9587 words) |
| Russia was to adopt the forms of literature in use in the West. |
| During the last generation of the 19th century most of the Titans of her literature departed, and cannot be said to have left successors of equal merit. |
| The foundation of the Little Russian literature (written, as opposed to the oral) was laid by Ivan Kotliarevskiy (f769I838), whose travesty of part of the Aeneid enjoys great popularity among some of his countrymen. |
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