January 6, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.
It’s cold outside… so a sleighride seems a fitting tribute to today. Enjoy! I love this spinning top – not just the movement but the jingling sound – reminds me of sleigh-bells. I assume it is from the 60s or 70s former Soviet Union. If there is anyone out there who knows what the ‘AP’ […]
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July 2, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.
Russia is in the quarter-finals! The ‘Northern Bear’ was, according to The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, an old nickname for Russia. And it is still true that Russia (in political cartoons) is usually depicted as a bear, even though only very few cities have the bear in their coat of arms, the Country’s coat of […]
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