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.
The Beautiful Book. The Gutenberg Bible is the outcome of an orchestral combination of technologies and ideas that came together to produce the first book to be printed with movable, metal type, around 1455. It essentially introduced the printing press as it was to be known for hundreds of years to follow.