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My Shot of the Day – Russian Pigeons. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

By Jim on May 26, 2011 in My Shot of the Day, Photography, Russia/USSR

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Can You Help Me? WHERE WAS THIS?!?! Russia.

By Jim on May 20, 2011 in Europe, Photography, Russia/USSR

Can anyone help me figure out where this is? I shot it in Russia…but I can’t read my notes…I know it was within 100 miles of Moscow

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The Long Walk – Would You Rather Have Questions or Answers?

By Jim on February 17, 2011 in Book Review, Russia/USSR, Stories

I guess I’m a little slow to these things sometimes but I just…literally just…found out that Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom was probably fabricated out of whole cloth. Damn. “The Long Walk” (published in 1956) describeds Rawicz’ epic escape from a Soviet gulag in 1941. Supposedly, Rawicz’ and a [...]

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Daldøsa. How did Islamic games come to the North Pole?

By Jim on February 14, 2011 in Africa, Archaeology, Egypt, Europe, Finland, Morocco, Norway, Scandanavia

Here’s a study I stumbled across that combines three of my favorite things: The Arctic, the Arab world and cultural connections in the ancient world. The question is, how could a board game that originated in central and east Africa have ended up being played by the Danes, Norwegians and even the….Sami!! How did an [...]

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