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"Kosher Ham Is Totally NOT A Thing" — 24 Hilarious Lies People Were Told As Kids That They Didn't Realize The Truth About Until Way, Way Too Late
Recently, Reddit user Successful-Eye2187 took to the popular r/AskReddit page to ask a fantastic question: "What’s a lie you were told as a kid that you didn’t realize wasn’t true until ...
The Queen Zone on MSN7dOpinion
Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, Hubris, and the Contemptible Betrayal of Paupers Passing Themselves off as Princes
Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, ...
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People Are Sharing The Funniest Lies They Were Told As Kids That They Didn’t Realize Weren’t True Until Embarrassingly Later In Life, And I Def Believed Some Of These
"I was told that the alligators living in the sewers of NYC sometimes rose up through the grates on the sidewalk and snatched little kids away." View Entire Post › ...
River Journal16d
Caramoor Announces Summer 2025 Schedule
Row one: Caramoor Grounds (photo: c/o Caramoor); Arturo O’Farrill (photo: Jen Rosenstein); Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, & Yo-Yo Ma (photo: Lawrence Sumulong); Row two: Daniil Trifonov (photo: Dario ...
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Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky dies at 88
Soviet chess world champion Boris Spassky has died at age 88. It was announced by the Russian Chess Federation that regretted the event as a “great loss for Russia”. Spassky held the title of ...
The Conversation18d
Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?
McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I ...
Reuters4d
Pro-Russian leader of Moldovan ethnic minority detained
CHISINAU, March 25 (Reuters) - Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau's international airport late on Tuesday, following ...
Phys.org18d
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.
CBS News29d
Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.
Reuters5d
Russian missile attack wounds 88 in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say
March 24 (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack hit a densely-populated district of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy, wounding 88 people, including 17 children, on Monday as ceasefire talks ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86
While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles. By Clay Risen Oleg Gordievsky, who was the ...