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Konstantin Korovin's works are a good example:in "On the Seashore in the Crimea" (1909) and"Portrait of F.I. Chaliapin" (1911) he avoids anysense of illusionistic depth, but uses broad,multi-directioned brushstrokes and flat,juxtaposed bright colors to give an impression ofthe atmosphere of a summer...
...disputes that Demjanjuk was drafted into the Soviet army in 1940, captured in the Crimea by the Germans in May 1942 and sent to a prisoner-of- war camp in Chelm, Poland. From there the trail becomes murky. According to Defense Attorney Mark O'Connor, Demjanjuk was then transferred to the pro- Nazi, anti-Communist Ukrainian National Liberation Army, and after the war was put in a displaced-persons camp. When he secured a visa to enter the U.S. in 1951, he concealed his military record and claimed to have spent the war years as a forced laborer...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...
First there was Peter, who had denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed and who finally was martyred, according to Origen's histories, crucified upside down on a hillside. Then came St. Linus, St. Anacletus and St. Clement I, who may or may not have been drowned off Crimea with an anchor around his neck. These were the first of the heirs of St. Peter, the Popes of Rome, some of them loved, some feared, some venerated, some murdered. One of the proudest and most powerful, Innocent III (1198-1216), started calling himself the Vicar of Christ because...
...Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence," and when Queen Victoria wrote a letter answering...