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Although every Communist propagandist from Stettin to Pyongyang stressed the peaceful purposes of the Pacific tests, the shots would have obvious military value. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from their bases near the Caspian and Aral seas, they would be testing at 7,700-mile range plus as compared with the best 6,300-mile range of the U.S.'s Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered...
...Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...
Arabs insist on ignoring the cry from European refugee Jews for admission to the Holy Land. Faris el Khoury brought in some dubious history to deny their connection with Palestine. "Who are the Jews of eastern Europe?" he asked. "They are Mongols who were near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that...
...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...
More significant to science was the news that such experiments are conducted at the Mid-Asiatic University at remote and romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...