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Sasha Senderovich's NYT op-ed on the toppling of the Lenin statue in Kiev

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Newspaper account of Gorbachev's visit to Armenia in the wake of the 1988 earthquake. The picture depicts his visit to Leninakan (now Gyumri), the largest city involved in the Spitak earthquake disaster.

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Painting of Gorbachev's visit to Armenia, capturing the mood of the crowd during the president's somber visit in the wake of the earthquake. Note the wreckage in the background.

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The poster for the series of lectures on the Silk Road in Penn Museum. Also one typical iconic image of the mass's imagination of the term.

SilkRoad beliefs.pdf

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a map of tourist sites of Berlin ca. 1908: cultural, historical sites, imperial castles, palaces, museums, theaters Berlin Sightseeing, 1908 Tourist Guide to Berlin: "Sehenswürdigkeiten," Neuester Plan und Wegweiser von Berlin, Berlin W: Albert…

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A screenshot of our skype meeting on Saturday, October 11 from 17.00-18.00 GMT-5. Orthodox Jews with peyes also participating in side-bar

guidebook railroad_central asia.pdf

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A heat map generated by mapping all of the points where English-language travelers identified a border or borderland between Europe and Asia or East and West. The Caucasus (especially Tbilisi), the Balkans (especially Bosnia) and the Volga/Ural…

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In the summer of 1947, Henry N. Cobb, then a student at the Harvard GSD, joined a group that travelled throughout Europe to observe reconstruction efforts, particularly in Poland. In September, the group stayed at the hospital in Piekary.
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