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...Whites into Urga (later Ulan Bator), and remained to establish the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924. For the next generation, Moscow monopolized Mongolia's diplomatic and trade relations to the exclusion of all foreigners, and particularly the Chinese. Mongolia's wool and hides went westward to Russia, in exchange for a trickle of manufactured goods and swarms of political instructors. The Russians introduced their own Cyrillic alpha bet; Buddhist lamas and a few rich herders were persecuted to "free" the masses for membership in the new cooperatives...
Madame Mustache. In this unique view of history, it was the gambler's restlessness that helped push America westward, his flamboyant character that gave luster to frontier individualism, and his legerdemain and quick gun that often forced the coming of law and order. Gambling has also produced some of the most colorful characters in American history. There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig (which one has the pea?) and could still outwit the best of them at 70; Elijah Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across...
...population center has been inching inexorably westward ever since the first census in 1790 located it near Chestertown, Md., 701 miles east of the Kleiboeker farm. Thanks to the addition of two new states (and a 28 million increase since the 1950 census), the jump from the old population center in Olney, Ill., is the biggest of the century: 57 miles...
...through the mass of maritime paintings (now stacked on the floor for lack of wall space), antique furniture, ship's lanterns, piles of historical material on T Wharf, and other nautical and sentimental memorabilia common to many T Wharf apartments, we eventually noticed a slight but distinct westward list in the floor. Mr. Love, of Quincy Market, believes this to be a defect due to the rotting substructure. Mrs. Kimball, however, insists that her section of the building was constructed with a list so that the late 19th century sailmakers could lay their goods lengthwise along the floor, then pour...
...ambassador himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused the Russians of acting "in bad faith" and "tying political strings to loans." The 26 factories that the Communist bloc had promised to build in Iraq were still on paper. Kassem himself seems content with the Westward drift of things. His press has been branding the local Communists "traitors" and "foreign agents...