When chocolate became scarce in Estonia and other Baltic states during a supply crisis in the 1970s, an enterprising company chose to step into the breach with a substitute chocolate bar.
Next I hear (my heart is thumping)... “We have stepped up surveillance because of increased drug smuggling this month. Don’t worry, you both are clear.”
The Soyez rocket with Tito on board ascended from the launchpad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan in central Asia under sunny blue skies.
Stephen Krashen, from the University of California, maintains that exceptional language learners simply work harder, and have a better understanding of how they learn.
Originally a magazine series, Anne Stephens’ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter sold approximately 300,000 copies in the first year as a novel. Its success paved the way for the new fad in America.
The next step in finding out the chances of life on the planet would be to measure its light spectrum, a process that would reveal molecular oxygen if it exists. The glare from Gliese 581 makes this impossible, however.
Lance Armstrong had to step down from being chairman of his cancer foundation, Livestrong, because he lied about doping during his bicycle riding career.