24 maggio 2006 12:00
da: Corriere della Sera A una decina di chilometri dal grande raccordo anulare di Mosca, all’ altezza della stazione ferroviaria Vodniki (che significa «acquaparco»), c’ è un lago artificiale voluto da Stalin nel 1937 e che consente alla capitale di comunicare con il Volga e il mar Caspio. Qui si trova lo Yacht Club Spartak. [...]
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da: The New York Times When northern and southern Sudanese leaders met in a soccer stadium in January 2005 to sign an agreement to end the civil war that had raged for more than two decades, Bush administration officials hoped they were killing two birds with one stone. By solving Sudan’s worst conflict, the war [...]
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da: The New York Times When Steve Milch found out recently that his great-grandfather, an immigrant from Bavaria, had been convicted of sedition in Montana during World War I, he was taken aback. It was something no one in the family had ever talked about. For the past 88 years, a lot of secrets have [...]
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