NPR · 19hGreenland FACT CHECK: Did Harry Truman Really Try To Buy Greenland Back In The Day?NPR - Philip EwingPresident Trump defended the idea of buying Greenland — derided by critics within the United States and rejected by Denmark, which controls it — in part by saying the idea first came from President Harry
The Wall Street Journal.added this to Opinion · 7hOpinion Hitler and Stalin Weren't Such Strange BedfellowsThe Wall Street Journal. - Juliana Geran PilonKnown officially as the Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Hitler-Stalin pact—signed 80 years ago Friday—stunned the world. Some said that by uniting
Euronewsadded this to Europe · NowEuropean News Baltic Way: 30 years since the 600-km human chain that helped trigger the collapse of communismEuronews - By Cristina Abellan MatamorosFriday marks the 30th anniversary since two million people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands and made a 600-kilometre human chain that spread across the three Baltic states. The event, as
Fox Newsadded this to U.S. · NowMarket Data This Day in History: Aug. 23Fox News2008: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama introduces Joe Biden as his choice for vice president.his running mate. 1305: Scottish leader William Wallace is executed in London.• 1914: Japan declares
Daily Mailadded this to Top Stories · 17hMilitary Aircraft Fighter jet pilot shows off his incredible skill by manoeuvring just a few feet from press planedailymail.co.uk - By John Bennett For Mailonline This is the extraordinary moment a fighter pilot shows of his deft aerial skills in the cockpit as he takes off from a Ukrainian airstrip. With a …
Euronewsadded this to News · NowWorld News Meet the pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on Baltic Way human chainEuronews - By Linas JegeleviciusHe's the patriotic pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on a 675-kilometre human chain spanning Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Two million people had joined hands on August 23, 1989 — 30 years today
The Washington Timesadded this to News From The Washington Times · 7hRussia LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Recall Soviet help to NazisThe Washington Times - THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mr. Lakhonin is absolutely correct: The heroic deeds of the Soviet people must not be forgotten (“Why the heroic deeds of the Soviet people must not …
Fox Newsadded this to Top Stories · 10hScience Mysterious medieval skeleton at Prague Castle reveals its secretsFox News - James RogersArchaeologists are shedding new light on a mysterious medieval skeleton that was discovered buried with a sword, ax and knives at Prague Castle during the 1920s. The remains, which are from the 10th century,
Haaretzadded this to Middle East · 15hNuclear Energy Mysterious Nuclear Blast Shreds Another Piece of Putin's Global Ambitionshaaretz.com - Anshel Pfeffer It took Vladimir Putin 11 days to utter any public statement about the disaster that occurred on August 8 off the White Sea coast, where an explosion …
The Washington Timesadded this to News From The Washington Times · 14hBaltic States When the course of history moved toward freedomThe Washington Times - Rolandas Krisciunas, Jonathan Vseviov, Juris Pekalis Thirty years ago two million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians along with other nationalities living in our countries held hands in a continuous …
Liberal View Trump tried to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland, because Puerto Rico wasn't grateful enoughdailykos.com - Mark Sumner For those genuinely interested, there actually was a point where the United States offered to buy Greenland in the past. It was in the early years of …
Reuters Indiaadded this to World · 10hAlaska Half a century on, Soviet message in a bottle found in AlaskaReuters IndiaMOSCOW (Reuters) - Tyler Ivanoff, an American schoolteacher, was gathering firewood with his children on a beach in western Alaska when he came across a champagne bottle with a letter inside. "Warm greetings
Russia Molotov-Ribbentrop What? Do Russians Know Of Key WWII Pact?rferl.org - www.rferl.org The pact between Stalin and Hitler that paved the way to World War II is nearly taboo in Russia, where its 80th anniversary will likely go unnoticed.
IKITOadded this to NEWS · 22hRussia Striking photos document the collapse -- and evolution -- of 20th century communismCNN - Oscar Holland, CNN(CNN) — The two giants of 20th century communism, China and the Soviet Union, experienced profoundly different fates. In post-Mao China, economic reform and the gradual creep of market forces saw an impoverished
Cicely Monteagle Gilmanadded this to Beautiful Images 3 · 1hCulture 30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still mattersPRI - Indra EkmanisDainius Vaičekonis was a university student in 1989 when he got in a taxi on Aug. 23 to drive through heavy traffic to the outskirts of Vilnius, Lithuania. It was a day that would change his life, and
marcdubeyadded this to Middle East News For The Perplexed · 19hRussia Afghans dream of peace 100 years on from independencearabnews.com The 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain was marked on Aug. 19, remembering the day King Amanullah Khan proclaimed …
Conservative View How Trump’s New Fed Nominee Exposed the Soviet Union’s Debttheamericanconservative.com - Bill Bergman She crunched the numbers and predicted the USSR's downfall. Now can she take on America's red ink? With his oft-stated affinity for all things Russia, …
Syracuse.comadded this to Syracuse Sports · 19hTeam USA ‘Miracle on Ice’ hockey player arrested for assault; family suspects CTEsyracuse.com - The Washington A member of the 1980 Miracle on Ice hockey team remains in a Minnesota jail, accused of beating a neighbor in an alleged attack that his sister …
Mikhail Gorbachev Minister Abela meets former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachevnewsbook.com.mt - Gordon Watson Malta’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela has met with the former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as part of the 30th anniversary …
Tonyadded this to Guns, Girls, and Gear · 6hGuns The Humble yet Increasingly Collectible SKS Rifle: A...guns.com - Chris Eger With its origin in WWII and Cold War production history, the SKS can be a thing of beauty. (Photo: Guns.com) A common question posed is, “Who made the …
The Roaradded this to Rugby Union · 13hRugby World Cup More to Russian defeat than met the eyetheroar.com.au - Istanbul Wingman Russia were beaten by Italy in their World Cup warm-up fixture at San Benedetto del Tronto last weekend, predictably enough, though it appears there …
France 24 · 14hLithuania Lithuania urges Amazon to drop Soviet-themed goodsFrance 24Lithuania on Thursday called on US e-commerce giant Amazon to stop selling Soviet-themed goods online, saying the hammer and sickle symbol offended victims of totalitarian communism. The Baltic state's
➰Kit Arrowsmith➰added this to WAR MILITARY & WEAPONS · 1hMilitary History These Were the Best Cold War Attack Submarinesdefensemaven.io - Warrior Maven Warrior Video Above: B-2 30th Anniversary - AF 3-Star details Stealth Bomber Attack "To Join Warrior Maven Gold AI & CyberWar Circle CLICK …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBaltic States Human chain reminded world about Baltic striving for freedom – Levitsbaltictimes.com - www.baltictimes.com RIGA – 30 years ago, the human chain that stretched from Tallinn via Riga to Vilnius reminded to the whole world about the Baltic striving for …
Independent Mediaadded this to Pretoria News · 23hPretoria New Russian envoy lauds Struggle stalwarts | Pretoria Newsiol.co.za - RUDZANI MATSHILI Pretoria - The ambassador-designate of the Russian Federation to South Africa, Ilya Rogachev, began his tenure with a ceremony to pay homage to all …
Miami Heraldadded this to News · 12hOpinion Wedding bomb a signal that terrorists will rule in Afghanistan once U.S. troops leave | Opinionmiamiherald.com - By Marko Kounalakis Weddings on a summer eve remind us of the excitement of young romantic love. The bride’s smile, the groom’s unbounded enthusiasm. It’s all so lovely. …
Oil & Gas Industry Hannity: America “will dive into a depression, probably immediately, if we get rid of oil and gas”mediamatters.org - www.mediamatters.org
The Times of Israeladded this to The Times of Israel · 21hHolocaust Netanyahu’s praise of Kyiv’s Holocaust remembrance only tells part of the storytimesofisrael.com - By Sam Sokol On Monday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at Kyiv’s Babi Yar ravine with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s recently elected Jewish …
The Evening Standardadded this to The Evening Standard · 20hLifestyle (UK) New book puts the movement of people into deeper contextstandard.co.uk - David Goodhart Like the proverbial man with the hammer for whom everything is a nail, for the liberal-minded professor of migration everything significant in …
Chicago Tribuneadded this to Arts & Entertainment · 19hChernobyl HBO’s masterful ‘Chernobyl’ is about something even bigger than the catastrophe — the truthChicago Tribune - By Chris JonesIs the truth lying out there, just waiting for us all to crawl from our ideological bunkers and come back to our senses? If you’ve watched “Chernobyl,” the extraordinary HBO/Sky miniseries created and
