Little did he know that the resulting game would go on to become one of the greatest, most addictive and most successful of all time. It was June 6, 1984, and Tetris had just started its journey from behind the Iron Cu...
The Iron Curtain--die Grenze, "the border"--as West Germans straightforwardly called the German section of the menacing barrier that snaked across Europe; or the anti-faschistische Schutzwall, the wall providing protection against fascism, as the East German regime tendentiously dubbed their wi...
‘The gold ones are Galleons,’ he explained. ‘Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough. Right, that should be enough fer a couple o’ terms, we'll keep the rest safe for yeh.’ He turned to Griphook. ‘Vault seven hundred and th...
No problem. The story of how, once in America, he rose from limo driver to darling of Sand Hill Road? An open book. But, fearing for family still living in Romania, worried about repercussions in a country still steeped in corruption decades after the Iron Curtain fell, Gheorghe won't t...
The Master explained, "It’s like building a house: to stabilize it, a pillar is placed between the walls. Eventually, when the house collapses, that pillar will also decay." 悟空道:“照这样说,也不长久。不学!不学!” Wukong said, "In that case, it doesn’t last long. I won’t st...
away from the Iron Curtain. “Maybe I was trying to escape to Russia,” Zdarsky offered dryly. This close call galvanized the plan of escape Zdarsky had flirted with for months. “The Czech [StB] already started having some file on me, I found out,” he...
and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow." Churchill warned that the Soviet Union was trying to expand its power. He described it as an "iron curtain" falling across the mi...
In the faces of older New Yorkers, or so I believed, you could spot the vestiges of Jim Crow—for that matter, of the Third Reich and the Iron Curtain and the Great Leap Forward. What Vojtech Bartolomaeus, whom everyone called V. or Mr. V., had been through, I didn’t know. ...
“Oh, I say hers,” the Prince pleasantly explained, “very much as, at this time of day, I might say mine. I quite feel, I assure you, as if the great place already more or less belonged to ME.” “That’s your good fortune and your point of view. You own—or you soon pr...
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