“Worst nightmare”: couple lost passports and $1800 while on vacation

This story is a reminder of why it is important to double (or better yet, triple) check your documents when traveling. Lewis Mundy and Kimberly Floyd spent approximately 30 minutes in Greece, where they flew to vacation, having booked an expensive hotel for $1800. Young…

The life and death of the famous American schoolgirl who wrote a letter to Andropov and visited the USSR

On July 7, 1983, ten-year-old American schoolgirl Samantha Smith flew to the USSR. A little ambassador of peace, a snowdrop of the Cold War, a propaganda tool - whatever you call this girl, who changed the way the citizens of two huge states look at each other. Samantha lived only thirteen...

Jew with the reputation of an adventurer: who was the prototype of Ostap Bender

He pretended to be a grandmaster for the sake of money, served in the criminal investigation department, spent years in camps due to financial fraud, and after being freed, he began to paint icons for the patriarch. Real life stories told to Ilf and Petrov immortalized the image of Osip Shor - it was he who became the prototype...

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