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Lenin’s Tomb

Lenin’s Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin’s & Stalin’s Mausoleum) (Russian: , tr. Mavzoley Lenina, IPA: [mvzlej lenn]), also known as Lenin’s Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, is a mausoleum that serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. His preserved body has been on public display there …

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Illuminations

See: Blackpool Illuminations Disney Illuminations Frederick Ashton Hildegard of Bingen IllumiNations IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth Illumination (disambiguation) Illuminations (Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana album) Illuminations (Buffy Sainte-Marie album) Illuminations (EP) Illuminations (Erik Friedlander album) Illuminations (Josh Groban album) Illuminations (McCoy Tyner album) Illuminations (Wishbone Ash album) Illuminations (festival) Illuminations (film) Illuminations (novel) Illuminations (poetry collection) …

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Gilead

Ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

See: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Eisinger novel) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Wilson book) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film) The Walls Came Tumbling Down (novel) Tumbling Down (disambiguation) Talk:The …

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Explaining Hitler

1998 book by historian-journalist Ron Rosenbaum, in which the author discusses his struggles with the “exceptionalist” character of Adolf Hitler’s personality and impact on the world or, worse , his struggle with the possibility that Hitler is not an exception at all, but on the natural continuum of human destructive possibility.

Old Glory

Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.