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Forty Years of Bricks

I am not a fan of what the rest of the world calls “football.” I cannot tell you the score

BALTIMORE — It isn’t often that fate drops two seemingly unrelated stories into a writer’s lap; stories which – when

It appears everyone hates 2016. I mean, really hates the year of their Lord, 2016. Could it get any more

Most people over the age of 60 can remember with varying amounts of clarity the fear that gripped America in the

Soviet reenactors fall in line at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend. (courtesy Svetlana Batrak) One of the highlights

This poster hangs in my living room. It says: 26 March 1989 – election of the People’s Deputies USSR Our

My mother in law, Maria Nikolaevna, was born in Lviv in the 1920s. In 1340 Lviv was part of Poland

Red Army soldiers examining the ovens at Majdanek, following the camp’s liberation, summer 1944 (Wikipedia) July 23 marked the 70th

It’s a gloomy rainy day here. Reminds me of Moscow. Land of the Dark. I found it interesting recently when

(Hal Foster appears in the Baltimore Post-Examiner under a partnership with Tengrinews of Kazakhstan. ) Three years ago Richard Debrot gave ski