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The main unintended consquence of the policy of glasnot (which means "transparency" in Russian) was that it led to criticism from the nations of the Soviet Union, towards the central leadership in Moscow.
Leaders in the Baltics, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, and Belarus began to criticize the soviet leadership in Moscow. In these "peripheral nations", people felt that the central government was pro Russia, or that they were essentially russian colonies.
These criticisms devolved into full blown rebellions, which led to the break up of the Soviet Union by 1991.
Today virtually every child grows up learning that the earth orbits the sun. But four centuries ago, the idea of a heliocentric solar system was so controversial that the <em>Catholic Church classified it as a heresy, and warned the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to abandon it.</em> The Google homepage pays homage today to Nicolaus Copernicus, the pioneering astronomer. Legend has it that Nicolaus Copernicus and the church were at odds over his development of the heliocentric theory, a principle that disputed the widely held belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
Stephen Fuller Austin carried out the Texas venture plans.
He was born in 1793 in southwestern Virginia and was son of Moses, a leader in establishing mining and manufacturing in the United States.
In 1819, an economic crisis wiped out his family's wealth, making them look for other business opportunities. Meanwhile, his father developed a <u>new venture</u>, a plan to s<u>ettle American colonists in Spanish Texas</u>. Moses won approval from the spanish governor in Texas to bring his colonists, however, he died on his way out of Texas. His last wish was that <u>his son carried on the Texas venture. </u>
<u>Stephan was true to his father wishes</u> and negotiated with the spanish governor the details of the proposed colony, which made it possible for <u>colonists to arrive to Texas in 1821.</u>
