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"Mir" in a Sentence (12 examples)
In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Space Station Mir. During its 15 year lifetime, it was the largest space station to orbit the Earth.
During the 15 years it was in orbit, Russia's Mir space station provided a home in space for more than one hundred cosmonauts and astronauts from at least twelve different countries.
Over 16,500 different technical and scientific experiments were carried out aboard Mir.
The Mir space station was the largest man-made object to ever fall from orbit.
Luis María Mirón prefers the train to the airplane.
Mir got attached to his wildlife neighbors, and even gave names to the two grown birds: Lilly and Billy.
"Mir" is a beautiful Russian word which means "peace."
In 1995, the world's attention was drawn to the 126 daily flights of the Mir orbital station by the joint Russian-Kazakhstan EO-16 crew.
Luis María Mirón prefers trains to airplanes.
[T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.
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The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.
Consisting of village elders elected by the male heads of household, the mir conducted almost all peasant business, fixing the dates for the agricultural year, deciding what, when and how crops should be grown, distributing plots of land on the open fields, collecting taxes and enforcing basic community discipline.
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