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Sunday, December 02, 2007

The Sunday Photos

Stalin's Russia, circa 1931, by renowned photographer Margaret Bourke-White

Soviet Russia -- Yesterday . . . and Tomorrow?

Putin's Russia, circa 2007: Residents of Manturovo settlement listen to Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB officer named as a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, during their meeting in the southwestern Russian Kursk region November 22, 2007. The meeting was part of Lugovoy's campaign as candidate for the nationalist LDPR party in next month's parliamentary elections. Via Robert Amsterdam

Soviet Russia -- Yesterday . . . and Today!

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La Russophobe

Girl Power: Ginger Rogers could do everything Fred Astaire could do . . . backwards, and in high heels.

Pioneer Power: Though he painted more than 1,000 works of art in his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh sold only two.

Mark Twain: "It's a man with very little imagination who can only spell a word one way."

Socrates: "To be is to do." Sartre: "To do is to be." Sinatra: "Do be do be do."

Girl Power: On May 14, 2006, a perfect game was pitched in the Oakfield, New York Little League. Perfect as in 18 consecutive strikeouts. The pitcher's name? Katie Brownell. She's the only female player in the league.

Girl Power: On April 13, 2007, the Independent reported that women will soon be able to produce sperm cells from their bone marrow, making men obsolete.