The Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a trick whereby the cat fades away ...
In December 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Sergey Krikalev found out from orbit, still living aboard Mir with no clear return date and an identity tied to a country that had vanished. This is ...
Roosevelt broke with the isolationist tradition to argue that wars abroad threatened U.S. national security and universal ...
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Aldrich Ames, a former CIA officer who spied for the Soviet Union and compromised US intelligence operations, has died in prison, closing one of America’s most damaging espionage chapters.
It took just a few seconds and a violent, unnecessary death to drag a snowy residential street in Minneapolis into America’s ...