Tove Jansson was a trailblazing illustrator and author—and the inventor of the beloved Moomins, the central characters of her ...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long lobbied American presidents to help Israel bomb Iran. None have taken him up on it, until now.

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Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union ...

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Mikhail Brat was a celebrated violinist who came to the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra in 1976 from what was then the Soviet Union. He played with the HPO until he retired in 2016.

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Eighty years have now passed since the guns at last fell silent at the end of World War II. In Europe, hostilities ceased ...

Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show.