Word: curios
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...place. In the 1870s the fort was the headquarters for the U.S. Army's District of the Pecos. Across this territory over the centuries, Comanches and Kiowas and Kickapoos, Mexicans and Spanish and the other European strains all foraged, collided, killed, displaced, settled. Among the ghosts, a historical curio: the "Buffalo Soldiers," black cavalry troopers, ex-slaves mostly, who were recruited after the Civil War and sent west to help the whites get established in the inhospitable vastness. After 20 years, the work was done. In 1889 the troopers mounted up and rode away from Fort Concho...
Subdued by the first blizzard of winter, Kabul was regaining a semblance of normality. Soviet convoys no longer growled through the narrow streets at dawn. Curio shops on Chicken Street reopened for business. The capital's telephones were functioning once more, and cross-country buses were running again. But the city was not the same. Soviet officers and political cadres were virtually in charge of the Defense and Interior ministries. Most large police stations now had live-in Soviet advisers. Just outside the city limits more than 16,000 Soviet soldiers continued...