The Super Nintendo may be among the most beloved video game consoles of all time, but when it launched in the U.S. 25 years ago Tuesday, it faced an uphill battle.
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"To teacher comrade Martyshin. I have received your letter about escapades of Vasily Stalin. Thank you for the letter. Replying with a great delay because of being overloaded with work. My apologies. Vasily is a spoiled young man of average abilities, little wildman, not always honest, likes to blackmail weak "teachers", not rarely an insolent fellow, with weak - or more accurately - unorganized willpower. He was spoiled by various "god fathers" and "god mommies", who continually emphasize that he is "Stalin's son". I am glad that in your person there is at least one self-respecting teacher who treats Vasily as everyone else and demands that the insolent boy follows the school's policy. Vasily is spoiled by principals like the one you mentioned, washcloth-people [means spinless in Rus.], who have no place at school; and if insolent Vasily hasn't destroyed himself yet it is because our country still has teachers who don't give slack to the little young swell. My advice: demand stricter from Vasily and don't be affraid of fake blackmail threats of "suicide" from the capricious child. You will have my support. Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity to fuss with Vasily myself. But promise to grab him by the collar from time to time. Cheers!" Original LINK (In Russian) Since the discovery of Ötzi the Iceman in a European glacier in 1991, scientists have recovered a wealth of information from his 5,300-year-old mummified remains: The brown-eyed, gap-toothed, tattooed man most likely spent his 40-odd years farming and herding, and was probably suffering from a painful stomach ache at the time that he died a quick—albeit violent—death in the Öztal Alps.
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It's true: Stalin actually tried to get Soviet scientists to synthesize a half-human half-ape super soldier..
Part 9 of a series that looks at the Great Indian Wars
The Black Hills were a treasure trove that both natives and whites wanted all to themselves. With both unrelenting in their pursuits, blood spilt across the landscape. The federal government opened Black Hills to gold mining in 1875 but Native Americans declined to leave the region because of its alleged sacred connotations. The United States military congregated to forcibly displace their warriors, but troops overlooked orders and attacked villages. These attacks were not the only misdeeds to committed. Buffalo was a major resource for its meat and hide. The millions of beasts roving the plains in the 1860s effectively vanished within two decades as hunters from across the United States and abroad drove the herds to near extinction. One source defined an 1877 horseback expedition that was so unrelenting “they had killed enough buffaloes to fill fifty carts with the meat.”[1] The threat of starvation moved both sides toward war. |
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