The commies were ready to take over Central Park. A trove of secret, highly-detailed Soviet maps from the early 1980s shows street level views of New York, Washington, D.C., and other major cities — ...
South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image via Wired With its final days almost 25 years passed (though historians ...
Who knows what dictators are up to behind closed doors (and iron curtains). For example, the Soviet Union mapped the world’s roads, typography, and, in some cases, the depth of rivers and density of ...
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A recently arrived family of immigrants from the Soviet Union refused to accept an apartment in Acre, a city on Haifa Bay, because they were convinced it was outside Israel’s borders, Ma’ariv reported ...
Our crack team of tourism officials is always looking for ways to lure tourists to South Florida, so naturally they’re willing to consider innovative tourism strategies from any source. Political ...
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THE maps of Glasgow and Edinburgh may look familiar to people who live in the cities, but the lettering - in the Cyrillic alphabet of the Russian language - will be less so. For they were among a huge ...