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Across Red Square to the Kremlin Wall

May 23rd 2007
While I may not have lived through arguably the scariest part of the Cold War - the Cuban missile crisis - I think that it is fair to say that the Cold War was still alive during the Reagan years and they managed to hold their share of tense and frightening moments and images. I recall as an 8th or 9th grader they made a mini-series called “The Day After” about a period of time after the Sovi ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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Ben Schafer

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I grew up the oldest son of two parents who LOVE to travel. My father's job as an expert in world soils gave him opportunities to travel for several weeks at a time nearly every summer that I can remember. His stories (and slides) of numerous trips to China during the re-opening to Western visitors after the communist revolution, to both eastern and western Europe (including Berlin on the day/night that the former East Berlin rejoined the economic system of West Berlin/Germany) and African countries such as Tanzania instilled a wanderlust in me from a young age. While I have not had the opport... full info

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