Day: May 6, 2018
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Kathryn Harkup: A Is for Arsenic — Chapter 3: Cyanide
Harkup recounts the story how Rasputin’s enemies allegedly lured him to a lunch featuring “cake and [Madeira] wine … said to be laced with enough cynide to kill ‘a monastery’ of monks, but it left Rasputin unaffected. He was then shot, at least twice, but was still alive and fighting back against his would-be assassins. […]
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The Rhine on Fire
(Source) https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js “Rhein in Flammen” (“The Rhine on Fire”, or “The Rhine up in Flames”) is an annual event, inaugurated in the 1980s I think, linking the towns along the Rhine, all the way from Koblenz to Boon, by a chain of fireworks. The whole thing gets kicked off in Koblenz as […]
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