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In the western part of Galilee in northern Israel, on a little elevation twenty kilometers east of Haifa there is a National Park of Beit...
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In Israel, in the city of Hebron, in its ancient part, there is located one of the most revered sites for Jews, Christians and Moslems –...
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In Israel, on the Golan Heights, sixteen kilometers east of the Kinneret Lake, otherwise known as the Lake of Gennesaret, in the middle of...
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In my childhood I often heard the expression “the trumpet of Jericho” (which is used in Russian to describe a very loud voice or a loud...
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Early this summer I had the privilege to be invited to the Service of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, which was held at Saint...
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He was born on December 12, 1951, in Chkalovo village, Zaporozhje region, Ukraine. His father, Philip Mikhailovich Konyukhov (born in...
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The war of 1812 caused a lot of damage to Smolensk. Alexander I, who arrived in Smolensk from Polotsk in the morning on July 9, announced...
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A condition forwarded by Sigismund in negotiations with the Great Embassy that arrived from Moscow was unconditional surrender of Smolensk....
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