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Moreover, for foreigners in the USSR the ban on photographing military, scientific, industrial, railway, power and transport installations applied equally to sketching them
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Not the gates of Hades, but a portal of lava on the stratovolcano Etna, Sicily. Photo by Franz Lazi, 1968 Among Etna's more recent notable eruptions, the one of 2 June 2025 was a palpable affair, as was the one before it, in the spring and summer of
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On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland
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Why does the plot of acquiring Greenland not look all that fantastical? One need only recall the history of the United States and its bargain purchases. In 1803 Louisiana was bought from France for roughly 15 million dollars. As a result, its territories went, wholly or in part, to form:
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The USA, that is to say, in all likelihood, Donald Trump, is considering paying each resident of Greenland between $10,000 and $100,000 in return for backing secession from Denmark. The current population of Greenland is about 56,831. The cost of the "project" could therefore range
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The first mentions of Chernobyl in the Western press are connected with pogroms: March 1919, hundreds of Jews killed in Ukraine, in Berdichev, Zhitomir, Chernobyl, Ovruch, Belaya Tserkov, Letichev, Elisavetgrad, Vasilkov and other places.
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The train was created as part of a mobile apparatus of agitation and propaganda. It carried lecturers, agitators, instructors, journalists, actors and artists, as well as a travelling printing press, a cinema projector, slide projectors, and gramophones with records. The train travelled all over the country for two years
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During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital. The ambassadors of these countries demanded compensation. The dictator of the day, Cipriano Castro, refused to pay reparations or service the foreign debts. The
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A statistical survey of the composition of the population of the Russian Empire on the basis of the 1897 census, with a hand-drawn diagram of national composition from the book "Russia in Figures. The Country. The People. The Estates. The Classes" by Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin, published in
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If the world does resemble a cat playing with Australia, it is still fair to ask why one paw should have it worse than all the rest. And, of course, it is important not to forget to stroke the kitty on the head
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A Hunting Party of the 5th Turkestan Line Battalion, Fifteen Other Ranks Strong, with Tigers Killed in the Environs of the River Amu Darya. The Caspian tiger, which ranged from the Caucasus to the north-west of China and had made its home across vast territories along the southern shore