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Rupert A. M. Davis has worked in the Square for over 30 years and manages Schoenhof’s Foreign Books. Founded in 1856, it is one of the oldest stores in the Square. For him, the Square’s changes have meant more than just a loss of familiarity...
...Ships continued to sail the grey waters, carrying grain to Russia, and Lada automobiles to Africa and Latin America. But cities like Riga that had ties with Western Europe were compelled to turn inward, while ports such as Stockholm and Hamburg found themselves cut off from some of their oldest trading partners...
...leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among the most celebrated: recovering a lost hydrogen bomb in the 1960s and leading explorer Robert...
KATSUSUKE YANAGISAWA, 71, a retired teacher from Japan, about reaching the top of Mount Everest. He became the oldest person to scale the 29,035-ft. peak...
...from the party leadership from engaging in political activity for five years after finding that TRT had illegally bankrolled smaller parties in order to make the April 2006 elections appear legitimate. (Separate charges against the main opposition Democrat Party were dismissed, strengthening upcoming electoral hopes for the country's oldest political party.) "This is very important as a step in curing Thailand's chronic political illness: electoral fraud," says Sunai Phasuk, the Thai representative for Human Rights Watch. "But it doesn't mean it's the end of Thailand's political crisis...