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Lake Baikal

Irkusk, Russia to Mongolian Border

October 7th 2006
This morning we came to Lake Baikal. I think it was morning but somewhere between here and Moscow there is about a 5 hour time difference. With little to do other than sleep, read and play cribbage it’s hard to keep track. Fortunately for us we had Hilda who was constantly jotting notes on a flow chart of where and when we should be. After questioning her, I rightfully guessed she was a math tea ... read more
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Russian Flag 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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