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...miracle, the dove rises from the paper and joins the moonbeam and the wind in flight back to the little girl's room. The little girl sits on the dove's back and off they fly, across the Alps, the Caucasus, the Urals. "Voici l'immense Union Soviétique. A great, a very great country," says the dove. "Yes, a big country full of song," agrees the little girl. "Here they work and sing," says the dove. "And now, look here, the Himalaya, and down there is China." "I hear the singing in China, too," says...
...Oscar Baehr, a husky, 25-year-old, tawny-haired farm boy. As he was driven to the village where his parents have a prosperous farm, he recalled the great Wehrmacht retreat from Russia in 1944 (when he was only 18), then the Soviet P.W. camp at Grozny in the Caucasus, next Siberia, and finally Kiev, where month after month he cracked rocks with other P.W.s and some Ukrainian women. ("If we got caught talking to the women, they simply disappeared. Those Ukrainian girls; God knows where they were sent...
Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
...scholarly works included many editions translations of religious works in Greek and Georgian, and commentaries on Medieval texts. He made many discoveries of unknown manuscripts in the Caucasus, Sinal, Samaria, and Lake...
...Mineral Waters Trust announces in an ad that it has just received from the Caucasus some bottled waters "good for health." The Ministry of Commerce has weighing scales available. "Goods can be bought for cash," it notes...