Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Criminals." Worse still, the movement had a "mass character." In the Kuibyshev region alone, a check on "by no means all" the collective farms had already uncovered 19,367 cases of "turning them into sources of private income." Presumably at least that many Russians were involved. The decree added that these "common criminals guilty of anti-government activity" would be tried without delay...
...telescope and swept it back & forth across the area where the nucleus ought to be. Their calculations showed a strong elliptical bulge. The happy astronomers did not claim that this was the Milky Way's actual nucleus. But they were sure that it must be the dense central region of the galaxy, which no human...
According to the most coherent (or least sensational) report, Tito's mystery began in the village of Kmrovec, Klanjec county, on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Klanjec is situated in a region famed chiefly for plump wheat, fat geese, burgeoning plum trees (essential to the manufacture of rakija, Tito's favorite drink), and a sprinkling of minor middle-class watering places (where, presumably, Tito got his first glimpse of the class enemy...
...Western Germany on its feet. On the other hand, past experience proved that nothing but unworkable compromises could result from any ordinary negotiations with the Soviet. Therefore Byrnes decided to join the American and British zones; take all needed measures to improve the economic and political health of this region; and thus to confront the Soviets with an accomplished fact which they could take or leave as they chose...
...rune stone-so called because the inscription is in one of the ancient Scandinavian runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...