Tag: history
member name: Charlie D.
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June 17, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
This is a vexing question to me, perhaps
because of the enormous hostility a sizable
number of Americans seem to have about
immigrants (again) despite the *fact* that
everyone in the Western hemisphere . . .
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June 15, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
I joined this area? group? at the invite of a quiescent
member of one of the four Listserv lists I'm an active
part of, mostly by submitting this essay or that, primarily
about foreign policy. . . .
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June 19, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
I joined this list eighteen years ago this July, back
when the list contained such luminaries as Tim
Johnson, Bill Sklar, Linda Saboe, Kerry Kilburn,
"Other Andy," Steve, Bill Dickson, Laura . . .
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June 20, 2007 05:24 PM EDT --
The list Val-L is eleven years old today. It seems
hardly possible so much time has passed by, and
that the list still exists and functions after so much
time.
When Val-L . . .
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June 07, 2007 11:34 PM EDT --
Born Anna Gorenko in 1889 in the Ukraine, she came from a
home where revolutionary activity was part of her early home
life - her parents and father's sisters were all part of the
organization . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
These excerpts appeared in a book by Terry Glavin
called The Sixth Extinction, Journeys Among the Lost
and Left Behind (2007), a book about what Glavin
calls "the Holocene extinction" . . .
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June 20, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
I have thought about this issue for many months as a
member of this list, and of the larger Internet community,
and once was rather publicly passionate about civility on
POLITICS. I gave up about the . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Yesterday was my third son's 25th birthday. Charlie
was given tickets to go see the Dead Sea scrolls
exhibit at KC's Union Station (now used as an
exhibition hall) and he was quite excited about . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
The full title of the book by Joshua Wolf Shenk is
Lincoln's Melancholy, How Depression Challenged
a President and Fueled His Greatness. I know some
who read this don't think Lincoln was great . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
USSR-
Mikhail Gorbachev reported under arrest, a committee removed him
and named as interim chief Vice President Gennadi Yanayev. The coup
has stunned the West, and brought calls for a general strike . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
This weekend marks the end of of my fifth year
on the Internet. Five years! Where has it gone?
In that time I've been to Russia and back, stayed
online for most of three days when . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:21 AM EDT --
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Aleksandr Yakovlev was formally expelled from the CPSU yesterday. In
a statement after the action was taken, "Mr. Glasnost" reportedly
said that the Stalinists in the party were planning . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
What follows is commentary and as much as I can offer of the
press conference offered by the "emergency committee" headed
by Gennadi Yanayev (a rather amazing and bizarre event).
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July 07, 2007 01:01 AM EDT --
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THe Soviet situation remains in flux. As I am cut off from the
networks, have no idea of what is being said at the computer
level, but it is 0630 in Moscow, and as yet, no word on whether
the . . .
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July 07, 2007 01:12 AM EDT --
This is a summary of the events of the USSR from a variety of sources
as best as I can read my notes.
Where to start ... OK, chronologically to the degree I can. This
morning, NPR reported that . . .
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July 07, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
As our system was crashed from midnight to about 0830 this morning,
I could only sit on the sidelines, listen to news and think about the
events of the past few days. Here are a few reflections on the . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
So much has happened in the past 48 hours that this report
does not pretend to cover all the ground it could.
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Today, a new power-sharing arrangement was announced in
Moscow, where Yeltsin . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:27 AM EDT --
"On the Remarks of George Kennan on McNeil/Lehrer 22 August, 1991"
I would preface this by saying that though about 85, Kennan
still stands as one of the premier Sovietologists in this . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:41 AM EDT --
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THe news continues to stun the brain, today's fall of the CPSU
and Gorbachev's resignation as General Secretary of the party
not even vaguely imaginable just a few months ago. . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:30 PM EDT --
The full title of this 2006 book by Matthew Carr, a
journalist and broadcaster, is The Infernal Machine,
A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar
Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. This is my 280th . . .
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