Casually ask your tour guide what one says to a prisoner of war, and he or she will automatically rattle off: “What is your name, rank and serial number?”
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Clearly, the burden was on me to go metric, and quite right too: only the USA, Burma and Liberia aren’t members of the global metric club, and that’s not what…
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Russia's oldest fleet sails through the turbulent waters of a changing map of Europe, and an American learns a new way to pronounce NATO.
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Herding 78 people through the Hermitage is a very different kettle of fish than spending a leisurely morning on one’s own at the Wallace Collection
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I don’t want to reveal any secrets of the guild, but the fact of the matter is that Russia is a freelancer's Klondike.
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This would be like Great Britain having its Naval Headquarters in Galway, Ireland. So likely.
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Does Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal listen in on my SKYPE fights with HRH? What if “This American Life’s” Ira Glass has heard me curse when I…
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Where would we be without our code crackers? Dan Brown, for one, would just be a geek in a turtleneck.
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The fact of the matter is, and no amount of Chekhov will convince me otherwise: this whole dacha thing is a well-oiled vehicle to keep female indentured servitude alive and…
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Today is May 1st, which is a big deal in a number of cultures and countries for various reasons.
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