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British Double Agent Kim Philby and Lithuanian Partisan turned traitor Jonas Deksnys When I read the reviews of Antonia Senior's new book: "Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire," I realized that I had never associated the British ring of spies, who infiltrated the highest levels of British government from the 1930's to 1951 and helped Stalin cement 50 years of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe, with Lithuania's Partisan movement. That

1757-58 C. Linnaeus: "Systema Naturæ," detail of a page in Volume I The most well-known instances of children being reared by animals such as wolves, apes, monkeys, and bears includes Romulus and Remus, Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan. In the mid-18th century, Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1757-58) formalized the modern system of naming organisms, and is known as the "father of modern taxonomy." The above image of a page from his t

1648-49 Joan Blaeu: "MAGNI DVCATVS LITHVANIÆ..." in the 1st State. Lithuania Poland Maps: https://lpmaps.lt/lt In 1648-49 Joan Blaeu first published a flipped-on-the-side (so that compass North is on the right) and reduced (44 x 52 cm vs. 76 x 74 cm) version of his seminal dated-1613 map "MAGNI DVCATUS LITHVANIAE." for the "Atlas Maior." A second state of the plate, published 1649-72, can be identified by a change in the latitude labels on the upper right frame, courtesy of A

That's a quote from a May 28 New York Times article by Emma Bubola and Ryan Mac quoting Martin Varsavsky, a Spanish-Argentine tech entrepreneur close to right-wing billionaire/wing-nut Richard Thiel, who has purchased a mansion in Buenos Aires as well as land in Uruguay where speculation has it that he has built a bunker capable of surviving nuclear war. Varsavsky has built a ranch in Mendoza, Argentina, which he sees as a potential shelter from World War III. He thinks Argen