
Authors: Mary Shelley · Henry M. Milner · Mary Lowe-Evans
First published: Mar 11, 1818
ATOS reading level: 4.20
Characters: Frankenstein’s monster · Victor Frankenstein · Elizabeth Lavenza · Dr. Henry Clerval · Captain Robert Walton
Genres: Gothic fiction · Horror · Soft science fiction
Adaptations: Frankenstein (1931) · Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) · Bride of Frankenstein (1935) · Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) · Victor Frankenstein (2015) · Young Frankenstein (1974)
wiki/Frankenstein

Fatalities: 50,000,000
wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Website: www.gorby.ru/en
Born: Mar 02, 1931 (age 86) · Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeysky District, Stavropol Krai, Russia
Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
Spouse: Raisa Gorbacheva (m. 1953 – 1999)
Previous offices: Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1989 – 1990) · General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985 – 1991)
Children: Irina Mihailovna Virganskaya (Daughter)
Founded: Union of Social Democrats · Club of Madrid · Social Democratic Party of Russia · The Gorbachev Foundation · Green Cross International · Global Green USA · Kombat ArmouringHighlights
- 1953: Mikhail Gorbachev married Raisa Gorbacheva on September 25, 1953; their marriage lasted 46 years till September 20, 1999.
- 1984: Andropov died in 1984, and indicated that he wanted Gorbachev to succeed him as general secretary.
- 1985: Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief “interregna” of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected general secretary by the Politburo in 1985.
- 1986: Gorbachev initiated his new policy of perestroika (literally “restructuring” in Russian) and its attendant radical reforms in 1986; they were sketched, but not fully spelled out, at the XXVIIth Party Congress in February–March 1986.
- 1988: In June 1988, at the CPSU’s Party Conference, Gorbachev launched radical reforms meant to reduce party control of the government apparatus.
- 1990: On 15 March 1990, Gorbachev was elected as the first executive President of the Soviet Union with 59% of the Deputies’ votes.
wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

Website: www.cops.com
First episode: Mar 11, 1989
Episode duration: 30 minutes
Creators: John Langley · Malcolm Barbour
Theme song: Bad Boys
Producers: John Langley · Malcolm Barbour · Paul Stojanovich · Bertram van Munster
Genres: Reality television · Documentary · Action
wiki/Cops_(TV_series)