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Last month, more than 100 ski resorts joined the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) Climate Declaration. The BICEP declaration urges that Americans “use less electricity,” “drive a more efficient car,” and choose “clean energy” to combat climate change. Ski resorts are concerned that global warming will reduce snowfall and hurt the skiing industry.

Skiing executive Auden Schendler said, “Aspen Skiing Company joined the climate declaration because if there is an industry that ought to care about climate change, it’s the ski industry.” The 2007 Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of a difficult future for the industry: “…snow cover area is projected to contract…mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism…shifting of ski slopes to higher altitudes.”

There’s just one problem. Continental snowfall has been increasing.

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Operation Barbarossa, when WWII became bloodier

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50 yrs since a woman 1st rocketed into space

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Kiev- USSR in XXI century…

Posted on June 20, 2013 by xtg120

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Kyiv’s notoriety as the birthplace of Slavic culture is reflected in its’ architecture, language, and traditions of city inhabitants. Ukraine used to be a part of the USSR and of course this period of Ukrainian history was too long to leave no marks. During 15 years of Ukraine’s independent many of soviet era symbols have gone, but some of them still continue to adorn buildings and even surviving statue of Lenin still stands on Besarabs’ka Square. So if you don’t want to miss such exotic sights and venues keep reading this chapter to find out where they are located. History

What to see
Khreschatyk The city’s grandest thoroughfare of slightly intimidating Stalinist architecture of uninterrupted facades reminding a stone carved canyon wall. Many of the original buildings in the city were destroyed in WWII and this street was rebuilt in characteristic soviet style. Khreschatyk is closed to automotive traffic on weekends.

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The Lykovs Of The Russian Taiga

Posted on June 20, 2013 by xtg120

ORGANIZED CACOPHONIES

I think the first time I read about the Lykovs was in a Cracked.com article titled “6 Isolated Groups Who Had No Idea That Civilization Existed” about a year go while randomly “Stumbling Upon” on a boring day at work.

It was the story of this Russian family of 6 that had lived away from any form of civilization in the unimaginably cold and harsh Russian taiga in Siberia for wait-for-it 42 FRIGGIN YEARS!!!. I was immediately fascinated and started reading up more about them.

They were a family of “Old Believers“. The Old Believers are a breakaway faction who separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666 as they were against the reforms introduced by the then Patriarch of the Church, Patriarch Nikon. Since then, they were constant victims of persecution and revocation of civil rights right uptil 1971.

The Old Believers fled…

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