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Corroborative of all this reactionary gossip is the fact that M. Dzhugashvili, whom Lenin nicknamed "Stalin" ["Steel"], was five times exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist regime for various high crimes and misdemeanors, but he five times escaped. In the war of "Whites" and "Reds" which followed the Russian revolution Comrade "Steel" valiantly defended the town of Tsaritsin, which is now called Stalinsk...
...Andrews came to two important conclusions: 1) That titanotheres, large horned quadrupeds which became extinct in America in the early Oligocene period (geologically fairly recent), lasted for a much longer period in Mongolia; 2) That mastodons were, in the same period, en their way from Africa to Western Europe, Siberia and North America...
...Crimea, the hiding of her jewels in her young child's rag doll, of the sinking of the Lucullus, which she said she was not aboard at the time, of General Wrangel's efforts and hers to hold together the remnants of the White Army in Siberia, of her sanitaria for those affected with tuberculosis...
Soon Californians heard how Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
...once insuperable difficulty in obtaining a Soviet Visa has been overcome. Russia is safe, stable. And Cooks will sell to anyone for approximately $280 a transportation ticket, including sleeping berths where necessary, for the 12-day, 7,530-mile journey from Paris via Moscow and Siberia to Peking...