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...songs strike one as being about sex, fast cars and power--traditional themes of rock 'n roll, if more explicit--but several groups write lyrics that are among the most thoughtful and compelling in music. Iron Maiden, for instance, have put out songs on such assorted topics as the Crimean War, Coleridge's poetry and the white man's brutal conquest of the American Indian. Maiden write about literature, history and science fiction, but never, ever, about the shopworn topics that saturate contemporary rock music...
Czar Nicholas II and his family died in a Bolshevik fusillade in 1918, but their Crimean wine cellar and attendant vineyards lived on. In 1922 Stalin added to the former imperial wine collection by rounding up bottles from other czarist palaces. Last week many of those rare dessert wines finally fell into capitalist hands. On Sotheby's London auction floor, Western wine dealers ponied up $1,074,544 for 13,000 bottles of the Romanovs' best...
...intervening. Given the resentments caused by the army's brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, the central government does not dare ask the agitated Georgians to return Turkish villages to the Meskhetians. Moscow has ordered up a plan for repatriating the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans, but nothing has been done...
...Alexander's brother Nicholas I who took over northern Armenia from Persia in 1828, then invaded the Balkans to make the Turks recognize him as the protector of all Christians. The British and French joined in resisting that demand in the bloody stalemate of the Crimean War (1853-56). Resisted in the West, the succeeding Czar Alexander II looked east. He was repeatedly urged in this direction by Prussia's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Russia has nothing to do in the West," Bismarck once declared. "There she can only catch nihilism and other diseases. Her mission is in Asia. There...
...Eastern outpost where the Russian Empire retreated was Alaska. The U.S. had made an offer for it back during the Crimean War, but the Russians refused. In 1867 Secretary of State William Seward tried again, asking first for various fishing and trading rights. The Russian Minister to the U.S., Eduard de Stoekl, refused. "Very well," said Seward. "Will Russia sell the whole territory?" Stoekl said the Russians might consider it if the price were right. Seward consulted President Andrew Johnson, then offered $5 million. Stoekl, who had been authorized to sell at that price, refused, saying he could not consider...