6)The jargon of male prisons, that somehow shows the sexual plasticity of men. The words and expressions of our English Gay Dictionary have been obtained from many different sources, but unlike many of these sources, which are copies from one another, each of the items has been analyzed, in...
In 2004, a group of Chechen rebels stormed a school in the Russian town of Beslan, taking more than a thousand hostages. They ultimately killed 334 of them, including 186 children. Sometimes the weapons of wholesale terrorism aren't even weapons, but repurposed technology. The destruction of ...
All of the spies were sent back to Russia without trials, traded for four Western intelligence agents being held in Russian prisons. FBI Supervisor Alan Kohler and Special Agent Shelton flew with the spies to Vienna, where the swap took place. It was the first time they would have an opport...
political joke prison Russian watch comrade factory soviet prisoner joke revolution gulag proletariat Dislike Like No Way, Warden! Several years ago, Andy was sentenced to prison. During his stay, he got along well with the guards and all his fellow inmates. The warden saw that deep down, ...
After Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemoller spoke out against the government and from 1937 to 1945 was confined to Nazi prisons and concentration camps. He issued the above warning upon his release in 1945. Let me say at the outset, that while I take pride in being Jewish, I am not...
In one life he was a 25-year veteran with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who had access to some of the nation's most-classified information. In his other life, he allegedly was spying for the Russian government. Hanssen's deception was finally discovered, and in February ...
Were the deaths of nine Russian hikers in 1959 due to a UFO? StockTrek/Getty Images What exactly happened to cause the deaths of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains of Russia on Feb. 2, 1959, remains one of the country's most notorious unsolved mysteries. On Jan. 28, 10 students fro...
As the story goes, Keith Emerson heard a performance of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite and decided he wanted to adapt the piece for his band to perform. On March 26, 1971, the idea became a reality. While classical music aficionados scoffed at the notion of rock band ...
“Like the Russian intelligentsia of yesteryear, the glossocratic intelligentsia of today's West is busily uprooting the last remaining vestiges of Westernness. The press is one gardening implement they use; education is another.” One example of how language is power is given in Alice’sAdventure...
As the story goes, Keith Emerson heard a performance of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite and decided he wanted to adapt the piece for his band to perform. On March 26, 1971, the idea became a reality. While classical music aficionados scoffed at the notion of rock band ...