A close up of the Nike Monument

May 24th 2007
Today was a day without my hosts (as a matter of fact, so is every day for the rest of this stay. They didn’t set much up for me in Moscow for some reason). In the morning I met one of the faculty members from the University of Iowa who is traveling with us, and we decided to get adventurous. We took the subway out to the Western suburbs and walked about a mile to “Victory Park” This is a l ... 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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