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...Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...
...inflammatory document. Most protests in the Soviet Union carefully stress the need for reform within the Communist system. Furthermore, unlike other appeals that have borne the signatures of individuals, the Tallin document is signed by an organization that calls itself the Democrats of the Russian Federation, the Ukraine and Baltic Republics. The unusual nature of the document has, in fact, caused some suspicion that it may have been written by an anti-Communist group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account...
...rivalry between the Nazis and Socialists spilled over into bloody street battles that erupted all over Germany. In the Baltic seaport of Liibeck, the Nazis met a tough opponent in a husky, square-jawed youth named Herbert Karl Frahm, a member of the Socialist youth club. The son of an unmarried shopgirl whose lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship...
...Your note pertaining to Russia and the American Civil War states, "The Russians actually dispatched warships to the U.S. to demonstrate their support" [July 4]. This was not the case. The Russian fleet had been ordered to sea as a precaution against easy destruction in the Baltic Sea in case of war. Russian treatment of the Polish people in rebellion had led to representations by the French and British governments. This caused concern in Russia that war might result. Of course, when the fleets arrived in New York and San Francisco, the Russians were glad to be hailed as supporters...
...Wernher von Braun, 57, director of the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Transported to the U.S. by American intelligence officials in 1945, along with 126 other German scientists who had been working on the V-2 rocket at the Baltic base of Peenemünde, Von Braun has directed development of rocket-launch vehicles from the earliest Redstone. Von Braun helped develop the ablative heat shield, which dissipates the searing heat of reentry by flaking off in harmless fiery pieces. His Huntsville group can also claim credit for what has become known in the space agency as "cluster...