scholarly journals The Argonautic Expedition: The First Worldwide Naval Epic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Angelos Per. Psimopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Wild Silkworm ◽  
Country Of Georgia

The Greek mythology is widely acclaimed as one of the richest treasures of universal epics; the myth of the Argonautic Expedition is one of the most interesting Greek myths. Some scientific authorities hold the opinion that the story of the Argonauts was no more than an inspiring fairy-tale, while others insist, it was a real historical event. They believe that it took place in 1225 BC, and Colchis was a country located in the Caucasus Mountains, near today’s country of Georgia. After a life-long study of more than thirty years using ancient texts and information coming from nautical maps and geography, oceanography and other fields of science, we propose that the real events were quite different from the currently proposed location. The Argonauts, and ancient Greeks at large, wanted to find a sea route to transport silk textiles and new species from the Far East countries to Greece or at least to open the Overland Route leading from the Black Sea to the Far East. In addition, they wanted to transport to Greece silkworm eggs to cultivate silkworms in Greece and produce silk. They started their journey from Iolcus and travelled around the Globe; they reached Colchis, Aeëtes' land that was actually China. They took from China eggs of the wild Silkworm instead of the real one and, sailing through the Indian Ocean, reached Suez, where they were forced to pull their ship across the land to reach Tritonis Lake. From there, they exited into the Mediterranean and arrived at Iolcus, the city from which they started their journey. That journey was made by the Argonauts around 1510 BC. Presently, giving a plethora of bibliographic references, we shall carefully attempt to expose the real events that happened during those ancient times under the mission code name "transporting the Golden Fleece to Greece". We shall say, who did this perilous feat, when and where it happened, what was the real purpose of the Argonauts’ journey, which were the correct routes followed carefully by the Argonauts, what were the countries they crossed or visited and finally what the Argonauts accomplished with that journey.

The Crimean War in the Far East

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Stephan
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Amur River Basin ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
The North ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Crimea

The Crimean War (1854—56), as its name suggests, was fought mainly on and around a peninsula jutting out from the northern shores of the Black Sea. Names such as the Alma River, Balaclava, and Inkerman are generally conjured up at the mention of this costly conflict. Strategic planning and operations on both sides, however, were not confined to the Crimea and the Caucasus. Far from Sebastopol, hostilities between Russia and the allied powers of Britain and France erupted in the seas of Japan and Okhotsk, and in the North Pacific Ocean. Accorded relatively little attention at the time, almost forgotten today, this Far Eastern1 theatre of the war offers insights into the growing role of Europe in East Asia. Whereas in the Crimea, the Allies achieved a victory of sorts while making immense human sacrifices, in the Far East they failed in many of their objectives but without incurring a great loss of life. The tragi-comic nature of tactical operations in the Far East should not obscure the war's broader implications: (1) the advance of Russia into the Amur River basin and Maritime Provinces then part of the Chinese Empire; (2) the intensification of British anxieties regarding Russian penetration into Manchuria and Korea; (3) the growing role of Japan in international relations; and (4) the progress of cartographical knowledge through surveys conducted in response to the demands of war.

Jack London, War, and the Journalism that Acts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Roggenkamp
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Far East ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Jack London ◽  
The Real ◽  
Character Type ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Jack London’s reportorial work for American newspapers remains rich territory for investigation, especially given the porous boundaries between fact and fiction, news and story at the turn of the century—porous boundaries evident in London’s style, as well. This essay examines the articles he penned as a correspondent for William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). The dispatches from the Far East reveal how London deployed his literary skill to produce provocative reportage, and how he cast himself as a character type—that of the fearless newspaper man—in his own articles as he attempted to experience the real-life adventures of war and, in turn, offer those adventures up to readers through his true stories of the news.

scholarly journals The Problem of Illegal Emigration of the Mennonites of the Black Sea Region in the 1920s-1930s (According to the Memoirs of the Families A. Herman and M. Reuter)

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
O.Y. Redkinа ◽  
T.P. Nazarova
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Support Mechanism ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The Far East

The article discusses the causes of illegal emigration of the Mennonites from the Black Sea region, identifies the main routes and shows the role of Mennonite mutual aid in the implementation in the 1920s-1930s. Mennonite memoirs show that the main causes of emigration were repressions against the wealthy layers of the village, the anti-religious struggle that affected wide circles of Mennonites. Young Mennonites suffered from the inability to obtain a higher or secondary specialized education, while maintaining their religious beliefs; they were afraid to be arrested as members of the families of the anti-Soviet element. The main routes of illegal emigration passed through the western regions of Russia to the Baltic countries, to Poland and Germany; through Central Asia to China, through Transcaucasia to Turkey and Iran, through the Far East to China and further to the countries of North and South America, to Germany. The Far East was the most successful channel of illegal mass emigration in the region of Blagoveshchensk, where refugees were supported by local Mennonite communities, the Harbin Refugee Assistance Committee, Protestant missionaries, the German consulate in China, and co-religionists in the United States and Canada. Mutual assistance at the interpersonal level, as well as between relatives and communities in different regions, continued to play the role of an effective support mechanism, maintaining ties within the Mennonite community.

scholarly journals Geopolitical Situation in Northeast Asia: Development of Sino-Russian Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-459
Author(s):  
Mohamad Zreik
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Far East ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Relation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historic Background

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and characteristics of Sino-Russian relations since 1640 where diplomatic and commercial relations were established in the far east of Siberia. A historic background will be given, in order to highlight the real reasons behind this good relation that is turning into an alliance. The paper will shed the light on important events and dates that occurred in this relation, such as the year 1858, which had disputes on the border. The author shows that the relations between China and Russia have been faced with twists and turns since its beginnings because of geographical, cultural, historical and political interdependence. This paper analyses the relationship between Russia and China in the light of international political changes as the world enters a new stage of international order, especially after the decline of US influence and China's announcement of its One Belt One Road initiative (OBOR) and its political, cultural and economic openness to the world.

The “Scrubby Scotch Screw Company”: British India Steam Navigation Co.'s Coastal Services in South Asia, 1862-1870

1992 ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
J. Forbes Munro
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
British India ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Region

The 1860s were marked by a gradual spread of steamship lines in the Indian Ocean maritime region. On the long routes from Suez and Aden to India, Australia and the Far East, P&O, the “flagship” of British imperialism in the region,1 was joined from 1861 by its French counterpart, Messageries Imperiales, which in its steamship lines from Marseilles to Alexandria and from Suez to Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Yokohama expressed the aspirations and elegance of Napoleon Ill's empire. The two firms politely manoeuvred for passenger traffic and the fine freights--silks, raw silk, opium, bullion and specie--which were the perfect accompaniment for mail and passenger liners....

Ancient Marbles in the Moscow Historical Museum

1924 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Oscar Waldhauer
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Far East ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Northern Shore ◽  
Very High

It has been pointed out by Minns, Rostovtzeff, and other scholars that social life in the Greek cities on the northern shore of the Black Sea was very highly developed and therefore the opportunity was given for adorning sanctuaries and public buildings with sculptured monuments. A signature of Praxiteles found in Olbia proves that even the most eminent Greek masters worked for the Far East of the ancient world. It is true, very few fragments are preserved, but among them are specimens of very high quality, worth more attention than has hitherto been paid to them. I cannot agree therefore with Minns, who thinks that ‘the few marble statues are of very little value’ and ‘would scarcely claim attention elsewhere.’ The fragments are indeed in a very bad state of preservation, but this fact must not influence the judgment upon their artistic value. It is a pity also that the remains of ancient sculpture found in South Russia are not sufficiently published. The fragments scattered in different local museums must be collected and studied anew, as there probably are works of very great importance to be discovered. Further investigations, I am sure, will offer many surprises and will compel us to change entirely our view upon ancient sculpture in the Black Sea colonies. Such a surprise was the grave-relief of the early fifth century from Olbia, published by Pharmakovski; another was the colossal statue from Kertch discovered in the depot of the Hermitage, a masterpiece of high rank closely akin to the Maussollos.

Coming Home to a New America

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Thomas Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Far East ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
People’S Attitudes

I returned only recently from an eight-month round the-world trip which took me to large parts of Africa, some islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, all of Southeast Asia, and the Far East. One can observe these parts of the world with an inexhausted curiosity, the more so if one has seen them several times in the past. While at first it is amply noticeable that many of these lands are still below the threshold of economic development, a second Or third visit also reveals hitherto unsuspected signs of social stability—acting, to be sure, as a brake on rapid progress, but also helping to maintain a kind of steadiness in people's attitudes and worldviews.

Russian Commercial Shipping and Singapore, 1905-1916

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62
Author(s):  
Karen A. Snow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Far East ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The Far East

After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia's Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Trade and Industry tried to reorganize the country's shipping on a more commercial basis by creating steamship lines and exploiting various trade opportunities. Because Singapore was a major halting point for Russian ships using the sea route from the Black Sea to the Far East, Consuls there were in the forefront of trade issues. Based on records of the Singapore Consulate and other materials at the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Policy in Moscow, the article explores plans for the commercialization of Russian shipping and the problems faced by Consuls in advancing Russian economic activity in the region.

scholarly journals Poetics of the Story Dere ‒ Water Wedding (1932) in the Context of V. Mart’s Far Eastern Prose of the 1920–1930s

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Denisova Ekaterina A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Far East ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The article discusses the poetics of the story Dere ‒ Water Wedding by Venedikt Mart in the context of prose published in the period from 1924 to 1930 devoted to the Far East topics. The writer is often remembered as one of the brightest representatives of futurism in the Far East, however, his prose is still poorly understood. V. Mart’s work is closely connected with the literary process of the Asia-Pacific region, this work reflects the problem of the loss of national and cultural identity of the Far Eastern population, in particular the identity of “gol’dy”. The story has an educational orientation and, at the same time, has a peculiar artistic world. The article discusses the methods of creating fabulous coloring at the substantive and narrative levels. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of poetics and plot through which the author shows the loss of self-identification and the loss of the ancient traditions of a small Far Eastern people under the influence of the realities of the “new life”. We consider the story Dere ‒ Water Wedding as the last prose work by V. Mart on the Far Eastern theme in the context of his other works in order to trace the artistic transformations and changes in texts devoted to this subject. The study revealed that by the beginning of the 1930s, the writer had abandoned futuristic techniques using irony to create a comic effect and returning to the origins of literature ‒ a fairy tale story. A comprehensive study of V. Mart’s work on one topic allows us to identify another feature of his work ‒ the use of “nomadic” phrases, which are almost literally repeated in texts published in another years. Keywords: V. Mart, self-identification, rare book, the Far East, poetics

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