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...pronunciation by of own name (So-to-may-OR) is deemed by Mark Krikorian - hell, let's call him Kri-ko-ri-AN - to be "unnatural...
...legend goes like this. Alexander, never very stable, was haunted by the memory of his murdered father, Paul I, and half-crazed by a sense of guilt for Napoleon's burning of Moscow. A handsome rakehell, Alexander had latterly fallen under the influence of Baroness Barbara Juliana von Kriüdener, a Baltic Billy Sunday who converted the Czar into a rabid religious mystic. Thus in 1825 he decided to change his life...
...express his gratitude for Marshall Plan aid, a Cretan mountaineer named Estakios Protopapadakis sent a present to Harry Truman: a silky-haired, two-year-old mountain goat named Kri Kri. "Kri Kri doesn't smell too strong," Protopapadakis assured the President, "and he won't butt...
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