Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Trailer for an upcoming feature on Russian dashcam videos

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by Jack Brummet ---o0o---
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Moscow Sculptures: Children are the Victims of Adult Vices

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By Jack Brummet, Arts & Travel Ed. In Moscow a few years ago, I had to talk my Kremlin guide into taking me to see these sculptures on...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

The Soviet human-ape hybrid

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By Jack Brummet, Genetics Ed. OK. This is completely nuts. From weirduniverse.net : The Human-Ape Hybrid For decades dark rum...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Nude Russians playing horseback? Giddyup!

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By Jack Brummet The provenance of this photo is unknown, but it is probably from Russia (photo was posted by Kerim Ragimov. a Facebook...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Сибирский костюм для охоты на медведя, 1800 год

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This is from a Russian Facebook friend.  I don't know what it says, but I love the image.   " Сибирский костюм для охоты на медв...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Live chess in St. Petersburg, 1924

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Uploaded by  Kavalira  at wikipedia.ru.  Via wikipedia commons. ---o0o---
Friday, January 09, 2015

Countries I've visited via MapLoco

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By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed. China, Mexico, Canada, Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco, England, India, Colombia, Russia, Turkey Create Your ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Five crazy GIFs from Russia

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By Jack Brummet, Russian Ed. ---o0o---
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Run, Rudolph, Run: a reindeer watches a German bomb strike over Russia

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A confused reindeer watches German planes bombing Mourmansk, Russia in 1941.  Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldey. ---o0o---
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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By Pablo Fanque, Cold War Ed. Change the context a bit, and substitute John Kerry for Hans Blix, and Vladimir Putin for Kim Jung Il. And t...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Ivanov's landing: pilot error at the Gatchina Military Flying School

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By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed. Flying cadets, circa 1914, at the Gatchina Military Flying Schoo l near Petrograd, point fingers at s...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Crosswalk civil disobedience in Russia. . .

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By Jack Brummet, Russia Ed. ---o0o---
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Emperor Peter I's Russian Beard Tax

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By Jack Brummet, American beard owner “In 1705, Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to modernize the society of Russia follo...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Russians know how to sell tampons (listen up Madison Avenue)

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By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed. The Russians have their own take on tampon commercials. . . not fields of wildflowers, close-ups of da...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The new WikiLeaks dump: a billion words generated by SoS Henry Kissinger (+ bonus cables on the Russians needing more Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Neil Young, Don McLean, James Taylor, and Bob Dylan)

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By Jack Brummet, International Intrigue Ed. WikiLeaks has just released the the "Kissinger Cables, " a collection of over 1....
Monday, November 05, 2012

The Kremlin Clock Tower

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By Jack Brummet, Russian Travel Editor The 500 year old   Kremlin Clock  ( Russian :  Кремлёвские часы ;  Kremlyovskiye chasy ) is an o...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Interactive video at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport

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By Jack Brummet, Russia Travel Editor This photo is from Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow. I only had a minute, but wante...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Russian billboard: they wait for you at home

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ring my bell: The Tsar Bell/Царь–колокол (and one more Russian "biggest ever)"

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By Jack Brummet, Kremlin Editor The Tsar/Czar's Bell is 20 feet tall and sits on a little stone pedestal on the Kremlin grounds...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Photographs of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow

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By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor [click photos to enlarge]  ---o0o---