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...origins are murky, but the favored legend traces its arrival in the country to Genoese merchants who traveled to Moscow in the 14th century and met with Prince Dmitry Ivanovich. Monks in the Kremlin's Chudov Monastery began distilling the first Russian spirits some time in the 15th century. Ivan the Terrible served vodka to his oprichniki - the special police force that carried out his violent and, well, terrible orders. To facilitate their drunken revelry, Ivan opened kabaks, or taverns, that served vodka and other alcohol (no food). By 1648, with Russians developing a strong taste for drink, a third...
...family in Cleveland, Ohio, working at a Ford car factory until evidence surfaced suggesting he had been an SS guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The U.S. government revoked his citizenship and, in 1987, Demjanjuk went on trial in Israel, accused of being the notorious guard Ivan the Terrible. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. But in 1993, his conviction was overturned on appeal by the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled that he wasn't the guard in question. Demjanjuk returned to the U.S., but German authorities soon requested his extradition. Demjanjuk...
...1980s were a monument to Wall Street excess, witnessing some of the most notorious insider-trading prosecutions in history. Corporate raider Ivan Boesky - said to be an inspiration for the fictional Gordon ("Greed ... is good") Gekko, villain of the Oliver Stone film Wall Street - was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and fined $100 million in 1986 for insider trading. Financier Michael Milken, the "junk-bond king" who famously earned $550 million in 1987, avoided prosecution on similar charges by pleading guilty to other criminal counts. But the largest insider-trading conviction came two decades later, in 2007, when...
...secretary is sort of the fresh face of HUD,” said Ivan Levi, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Design seeking a master’s degree in urban planning. “To have him at the helm of that agency bodes well for the future of that agency and hopefully for this country...
British Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis condemned the executions in a statement Friday...