The Lena River. The Lena is the 10th-longest river in the world, flowing 2,734 miles across the Far East regions of Russia, forming near Lake Baykal and flowing northeast to the Arctic Ocean. It empties in a 250-mile-wide delta at the Laptev Sea.
This was essential to the success of the Reformation. GUTENBERG, JOHANN (c. 1398â1468), German printer, is supposed to have been born 1398â1399 at Mainz of well-to-do parents, his father being Friele zum Gensfleisch and his mother Elsgen Wyrich, whose birthplace âGutenbergâ, was the name he adopted.
Johannes Gutenberg: 15th century printing with type. 1452, Gutenberg conceives of the idea for movable type. The first to invent an effective casting of type and thus making an industry and change in European civilization. Gutenberg's major contribution to printing came while he was working as a goldsmith, back in Mainz.