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Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
Source: tatoeba (3484557)
Americo Carrillo, the architect who will oversee the work, described the church as "a gem from Peru's colonial era."
Source: tatoeba (8349974)
Maternity nurses, midwives and doctors oversee the birth.
Source: tatoeba (10329936)
Google chief executive officer Larry Page announced in a blog post Monday that he and co-founder Sergey Brin will head a new holding company called Alphabet, which will oversee the original Google company that includes its now-iconic search engine and its popular YouTube video service.
Source: tatoeba (11056701)
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Closest matches include manage, superintend, supervise, administer, administer email flow.
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