The Para-Rigger

Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Mongolian Express

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jan/12/trans-mongolian-railway-train-london-moscow-beijing-russia-china

Paid To Lose Every Night!

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/ryan-gunderson-washington-generals-harlem-globetrotters-stories

Harlem Globetrotters vs. Washington Generals Feb. 6

Kowloon Walled City - The Birth And Death Of A World-Class Slum

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city

Putin Blames Poland For WWII

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/putin-blames-poland-world-war-ii/604426/

German and Red Army soldiers attend parade in Brest following the invasion of Poland in September 1939.

Awesome interactive tutorial on the relationship between the Earth and Sun

https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun

Brief Moments in History

https://biggeekdad.com/2016/10/historical-photos-color-ii/

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Gun deaths are tied to culture

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/geographic-evidence-that-gun-deaths-are-cultural-277cb90fa06d

Taking away all the nation's guns would truly be the wrong move.

Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palaces

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/nemi-ships-how-caligulas-floating-pleasure-palaces-were-found-and-lost-again

A great early Charles Addams cartoon. Scene: a college crew race. The usual shells rowing by, then one something like this. One observer to another: "Must be the University of Southern California".

Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palace Ships at Lake Nemi. They were the largest ships ever built in the Ancient World.

Jingle Bells, Mongolian style

The Real Story Behind KGB Spy Anthony Blunt

https://www.ranker.com/list/buckingham-palace-spy-anthony-blunt/melissa-sartore