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Women in Chess: A Few Tales

Lubomir Kavalek | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Maya Chiburdanidze, Mikhail Botvinnik, Hou Yifan, Nona Gaprindashvili, Sonja Graf, Vera Menchik, Sofonisba Anguissola, Ruy Lopez De Segura, Nana Alexandria, Sofia Polgar, Marcel Duchamp, Judit Polgar, Xie-Jun, Reuben Fine, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov, Jennifer Shahade, Emanuel Lasker, Eve Babitz, Madame De Remusat, Paul Belin, Paul Keres, Zsuzsa-Polgar, Elizaveta Bykova, Mary Belin, Max Euwe, Stalin, Sammy Reshevsky, Nato, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Sports News

Lurking in the background, hiding their identity, they seem mysterious, magical, beautiful. At first, they observed the game from a distance, but as centuries went by, women were drawn closer to the chessboard.

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Stalin Museum Will No Longer 'Glorify The Dictator'

AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Georgia Stalin Museum, Georgia, Josef Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Nika Rurua, Joseph Stalin Museum Gori, Stalin, Stalin Museum, Video, Culture News

GORI, Georgia -- A museum that has honored Josef Stalin in Georgia since 1937 is being remodeled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during ...

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Stalin Notebooks Cause Stir In Russia

AP | NATALIYA VASILYEVA | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Russia, Moscow Books, Stalin, Stalin Notebooks, Stalin Cover Notebooks, Stalin Controversy, Russia Josef Stalin, Russia Stalin, Stalin Popular Notebooks, Moscow, Josef Stalin, World News

MOSCOW — School notebooks with a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the cover have been causing a controversy in Russia since they went...

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Putin's Friends

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Russia, Lenin, Political Cartoons, Stalin, Putin, World News

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Want A Cast Of Stalin's Death Mask? It'll Cost You

Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Stalin Mask Auction, Stalin Mask Cast Auction, Joseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalin Auction, Stalin Mask, Stalin Mask Cast, World News

Apparently the latest must-have item up for sale is a mold of a Russian communist leader's face. A cast of Joseph Stalin's death mask has been auct...

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The 7 Most Overrated Time Magazine Persons of the Year

Mark Juddery | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Al Gore, Beatles, Rudy Giuliani, William Westmoreland, George W Bush, Adolf Hitler, Media, Time Magazine, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Olympics, Pierre Laval, Stalin, US Presidents, Slidepollajax, Great Depression, Media News

It's that time again, when we start to ponder that age-old question: who will be Time magazine's Person of the Year?

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Invoking Hitler's Name: A User's Guide

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Genocide, Tea Party, Nazi Germany, Evil, Joe Klein, Celebrity Chefs, Holocaust, Hitler, Wall Street, Pol Pot, Mario Batali, Babbo, Glenn Greenwald, Fox News, Civil Discourse, Mao Zedong, World War II, Stalin, Media News

On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.)

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Bankers Boycotting Batali Over Hitler Comparison

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Hitler, Stalin, Mario Batali, Occupy Wall Street, New York Restaurants, NY Restaurants, Bankers, Time Person of the Year, New York News

Celebrity chef Mario Batali compared bankers to some of history's worst dictators Tuesday at a panel discussing who should be 2011 Time's Person Of Th...

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Alexei Ratmansky's Disturbingly Revisionist The Bright Stream Delights Ballet World

Debra Levine | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Joan Acocella, Dimitri Shostakovich, American Ballet Theatre, Alexei Ratmansky, The Bright Stream, American Ballet Theater, Stalin, George Chakiris, The Bright Stream Ballet, Ballet, Arts News

Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!" Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre's The Bright Stream.

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Area 51: What REALLY Goes On At This Top Secret Military Base? (PHOTOS)

Annie Jacobsen | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Nevada Test and Training Range, Area 51, Nasa, Tikaboo Peak, Stalin, Sputnik, Wernher Von Braun, Slidepollajax, Yucca Flat, Operation Paperclip, Area 51 an Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, Nevada Test Site, Military Testing, Books News

AREA 51 sits inside of the largest government-controlled land parcel in the United States, the Nevada Test and Training Range. It's a little smaller than Connecticut, three times the size of Rhode Island, and more than twice the size of Delaware.

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Captain America vs. Osama Bin Laden

Robert Brenner | Posted 07.10.2011

It was easier during World War II. You knew who your enemies were--Hitler, Tojo, the Red Skull. And you knew who your allies were, too--Churchill, Stalin, the Submariner.

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Manly Facial Hair: 11 Must-See Mustaches (PHOTOS)

Tom Cutler | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Dali, Clark Gable, Handlebar Mustache, Hitler, Stalin, Slidepollajax, The Gentleman's Bedside Companion, Emilio Zapata, Mustaches, Tom Selleck, Handlebar Club, Books News

I've had my mustache for thirty-three years and I'm now used to street urchins flinging orange peel and contumely in my direction. But, as we say, if you can't take the abuse, don't grow the mustache.

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Did Cognitive Condition Make Stalin More Ruthless?

The Independent | Shaun Walker In Moscow | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Russia, Cognitive Condition, Moscow, Josef Stalin, World War II@Y:World, Stalin, Brain Condition, World News

It's one of the great questions of history, and indeed philosophy: what does it take to create a Hitler or a Stalin? What circumstances does it requir...

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Propaganda: Art Of Gaddafi, Hussein And Kim Jong Il

BLTWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses I...

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Impossible, Implausible Story of "The Desert of Forbidden Art"

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Moscow, Avant-Garde Art, Russian Roulette, Uzbekistan, Stalin, Igor Savitsky, Soviet Union, Arts News

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Russia, Poland, and "Rehabilitation"

Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Russia, Radoslaw Sikorski, Katyn Massacre, Stalin, Poland, Lech Kaczynski, World News

Will Russia and Poland finally close the book on Katyn with dignity? If so, it can serve as a beacon to a troubled world wrestling with closure to state-sponsored crimes.

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Gadhafi and the LSE: A Cautionary Tale

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

It was inevitable that the venerable London School of Economics would be rechristened the "Libyan School of Economics" the instant it embraced the financial largesse of the Gadhafi family.

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How Our Leadership Can Solve the Budget Crisis -- And, Why They Won't

Bayard H. Waterbury, III | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Saddam Hussein, National Debt, Stalin, Wpa, Desert Storm, Trickle-Down Economics, World War II, Tva, Great Depression, Politics News

I am an American, an aging American Baby Boomer. I was born in 1946, following the end of WWII. That was a tenuous time in American history, not unlike the present in the degree of challenges facing this country.

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Reality Check: The MEK and the Guardian's Credibility Gap

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hoshyar Zebari, Wiston Churchill, District of Columbia, United Nations, Jack Straw, Pmoi, Iraq, Hostage Crisis, Mukasey, Court of Appeals, The Guardian, Kuwait, Mek, Giuliani, Taliban, Camp Ashraf, Stalin, Unscom, World News

An article published by The Guardian on the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, is jam-packed with first-grade logical blunders and topped with dubious historical analogies.

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Exhibition Spotlight: Artist Dimitri Kozyrev Explores Ruin, Geometry, And Stalin

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stalin, El Lissitzsky, New York City, Ussr, Dimitri Kozyrev, ARt Exhibition, Painting, Lost Edge, Geometry, Painterly, Suprematism, Benrimon Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Malevich, Last One, Slidefullscreen, Landscape, Arts News

WHAT: Last One WHO: Dimitri Kozyrev WHEN: March 10, 2011 - April 1, 2011 Opening reception on March 10, 2011 from 5-9pm WHERE: Benrimon Cont...

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Lukashenko-Stalin

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lukashenko, Kgb, Belarus, Political Cartoon, Children, Stalin, Politics News

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Israel Needs to Adjust to a Post-American Age

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Turkey, Shimon Peres, Unipolar Moment, Israel, Cold War, Clash of Civilizations, China, Brazil, Japan, Stalin, Realopolitik, World News

America's unipolar moment is coming to an end and rising global powers are creating the conditions for the evolution of multipolarism. But delusional Israeli leaders still think that the U.S. remains the paramount global power.

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What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Why should we, here in America, care about a country with some of the worst luck in recent history? Because if we don't stand united against the "lesser evil" than the "straight-up evil" is coming for us.

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From Russia, With Love

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Directors, Films, Stalin, London-United Kingdom, 12 Angry Men, Nikita Mikhalkov, Burnt by the Sun, Arts News

In real life, actor-director Nikita Mikhalkov is associated with nationalistic politics, but in his films at least he conveys a great deal of humanity and sympathy for individuals of all stripes victimized by Russia's bloody history.

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They Tortured Me for My Health -- Don't Let It Happen to You

Lev Raphael | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Prison, Stalin, Books, Arthur Koestler, Health, Museums, Hospitals, CIA Torture, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Soviet Union, Healthy Living News

From Prague to D.C. the new rage in tourist attractions is torture museums. Is that thanks to the Bush administration? The closest I had ever come t...

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