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Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the New Economic Policy, a period during which communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. [ 1] It is generally interpreted as an ...
Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. [1] The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical. Through time, certain terms are added or dropped as attitudes toward it change.
In the United States, the Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS), commonly called citizens band radio (CB radio), is one of several personal radio services defined under Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 95. [ 1] It is intended to be a two-way voice communication service for use in personal and business activities of the general ...
Собачье сердце ["Heart of a Dog"], 1925; edited with introduction and commentary by Avril Pyman, London: Bristol Classical, 1994 (Russian text with English critical apparatus). Translated with the title Heart of a Dog. Роковые яйца [Rokovye Yaytsa, "Fatal eggs"], novel, "Al'manach 'Nedra'", VI, 1925; London: 1970.
Bulgakov's novel Master and Margarita was written here. Mikhail Bulgakov was born on 15 May [ O.S. 3 May] 1891 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, into a Russian family. He was the oldest of the seven children of Afanasiy Bulgakov [ ru] – a state councilor, a professor at the Kiev Theological Academy, as well as a prominent ...
A Young Doctor's Notebook ( Russian: « Записки юного врача » Zapiski yunogo vracha, literally, "A Young Doctor's Notes"), also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook, is a short story cycle by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The stories written in 1925–1926 and inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated ...
An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...