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Taran Davies who evidently initiated the production, along with his partner Dominic Cunningham-Reid of Cosmic Picture, is an intrepid film-maker. His first film Around the Sacred Sea tells the story of a five month expedition on horseback around Lake Baikal in Siberia with a group of his Harvard friends taken soon after graduation. Since then he has become an expert on Central Asia and Islam...
...Grozny in Chechnya, was returning to his home in western Moscow. Shepiyev did not make it. He was found less than a foot away from the wood-paneled door to his apartment block. Blood from three gunshot wounds stained the dirty snow on the pavement; the weapon, a Baikal pistol, lay discarded next to him. Typical signs of a contract killing. Shepiyev had survived one assassination attempt in Grozny in 2006. This time he was not so lucky...
...think it probably has something to do with Ec 10, a class I’ve never taken.” Owings: “Because she has to have some way to afford her dream car.” The correct answers: 1. Paramaribo 2. Lake Baikal 3. Appoggiatura 4. Pig 5./6. How the heck should we know...
...Siberia?Genetics also points to an original homeland for the first Americans - or at least it does to some researchers. "Skeletal remains are very rare, but the genetic evidence suggests they came from the Lake Baikal region" of Russia, says anthropologist Ted Goebel of the University of Nevada at Reno, who has worked extensively in that part of southern Siberia. "There is a rich archaeological record there," he says, "beginning about 40,000 years ago." Based on what he and Russian colleagues have found, Goebel speculates that there were two northward migratory pulses, the first between...
...enjoy it, or shall we destroy our planet? Syed Hussain Harrow, England It would seem that a far more accurate title for your stories would have been "The Wonders of Eurasia" - not "The Wonders of Europe" - since your report included sites in Turkey as well as at Lake Baikal, both of which are generally considered as being in Asia. I was also disappointed that nothing in Greece of historical or architectural importance or natural beauty was deemed worthy of inclusion. To exclude even a brief mention of Greece from your articles showed a lack of history...