Tyumen Oblast - Honors

Honors

A minor planet 2120 Tyumenia discovered in 1967 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is named after Tyumen Oblast.

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Famous quotes containing the word honors:

    “Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)