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Henk Rogers tangles with Soviet bureaucrats, double-dealers in 'Tetris'
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 26—Henk Rogers is known in Hawaii for, among many things, founding the Blue Planet Foundation, which spearheaded the state's renewable energy policy. Henk Rogers is known in Hawaii for, ...
40 years of Tetris: How a game from Soviet Russia became a global hit
dpa international via Yahoo News· 1 week agoWide-eyed, Willis Gibson, 13, covers his face, leans foerward and gasps for air, saying, "Oh my...
Why central Arizona should be allowed to sell part of its groundwater
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Soviet Union had some of the world’s most productive farmland and no shortage of farmers. Yet in...
The Berlin Wall fell because of one East German bureaucrat’s press conference
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWest Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early 11 November 1989 as they watch East German...
The Soviets Made Fast(ish) Rotary-Powered Ladas For the KGB
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI love rotary engines. My first car was a 1983 Mazda RX-7 with a carbureted 12A engine, and while it...
‘The Master and Margarita’: An Exuberant Soviet Satire
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoMikhail Bulgakov’s novel, which first appeared more than 20 years after his 1940 death, is at once a...
Government Gone Off the Rails
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFrom the G-File on The Dispatch Bullet trains park at the Nanjing South Bullet Train Depot in Nanjing, China, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by...
Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies At 100
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHenry Kissinger — who as a top American foreign policy official oversaw, overlooked and at times...
Guest column: Remembering Henry Kissinger
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoEditor's note: Henry Kissinger died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut according to a statement from his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates. The...
Terence Corcoran: UN makes its own case for dismantling the outdated institution
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoFor more than 70 years, the 39-storey United Nations headquarters in New York has towered over...
