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...Bog,” I greeted my holy receivers, a Croatian greeting that literally means...
...wind and rain have shaped the silt of ancient saltwater lakes into surreal crystallized salt pinnacles. And there's no place better to observe the tectonic forces that shaped Death Valley than at Badwater, the lowest place in the valley (and on the continent), where a salt-and-silt bog hundreds of feet below sea level rises abruptly to 11,049-ft. Telescope Peak 15 miles west...
...opponents. After the election, NTV kept up its harsh criticism of Putin's new war in Chechnya. It also lampooned him wickedly in Kukly (The Puppets), its popular satirical show. Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested...
...could certainly qualify as one of the 50 most-difficult-to-reach restaurants. On the northwestern tip of the island, it is a six-hour drive from Edinburgh; for the last leg of the journey, gastronomic pilgrims must navigate an undulating single-lane road across a spongy peat bog. It's well worth the trip. Spear's cooking, which draws foodies from across Britain, is deceptively simple, starting with appetizers like langoustine salad and partan bree (crab soup), both made from meltingly sweet local shellfish. Entrées include flash-sautéed Skye scallops, citrus-roast halibut and Highland...
...Koran's early verses. To create a single curriculum for Germany, the Alevis recruited a panel of people drawn from various parts of Turkey and began putting their oral traditions on paper. "The core of Alevism is simple and humanistic," K??k says. "That means we don't bog down in matters of dogma concerning this verse or that one. So we've found it easier to become somewhat unified in Europe, as well as to integrate into European society." That humanism is personified in Haji Bektash, a 13th century Alevi holy man who, according to Alevi lore, encouraged people...