43 Rhymes For KISLEV

• the basic unit of money in Bulgaria

• rate of revolution of a motor

• increase the number of rotations per minute

• high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction

• a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound

• Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)

• Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)

• a desert in southern Israel

• Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938)

• a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations

• Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953)

• the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December)

• Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982)

• Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin (1894-1971)

• someone who develops a game

• Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)

• Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)

• capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center

• a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure

• pounded chicken cutlets rolled around butter (that has been seasoned with herbs) and then covered with crumbs and fried

• Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)

• the capital of Moldova