Panin speaks on Soviet persecution and faith at Bennington
Dimitri Panin, survivor of Soviet prison camps and model for a character in a famous novel, spoke at Bennington College about Orthodox martyrs, the underground church, and the spiritual resistance inside the Soviet Union. He claimed tens of millions died or suffered, with Christians a large share, and described modern religious persecution under Brezhnev.
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Dimitri Panin
Solzhenitaya
Panin
Bennington College
Krushchev
Brezhnev
Lithuania
KGB
Caucasus
Lenin
Moscow
Insane but not stupid quote from Sidney Zion
A courtroom anecdote from Justice John Starkey in Brooklyn highlights the paradox of insanity and competence. Sidney Zion relays a New York Post joke about a man near a mental hospital solving a tire problem by using a lug from other tires, prompting the punchline that he may be crazy but not stupid.
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John Starkey
Brooklyn Supreme Court
David Berkowitz
Sam
Starkey
Sidney Zion
World Milk Record Set by Colgate Ayrshire Herd
A herd of 152 Ayrshires owned by James C. Colgate of Fillmore Farms produced over one and a half million pounds of milk in a supervised yearly test, establishing a world record.
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Cardinal Midnzenty
Pownal View
Pownal
Vermont
York Post
John Dermody
New York City
Dermody
Catherine Crahan
Mack
Germany
America
Stark Theater
Catherine Corcoran
Ruth Bodine
Elizabeth Thomas
Delta Kappa Gamma
Castleton State Teachers’ College
State Deer Kill
Searsburg
Shaftsbury
American Association of Retired Persons
AARP
Arlington
S. Oscar Berg
Johnson Administration
Congressional
WTAW
College Station
Texas
Texas A&m
Thomas Carlyle
KODAK
Camera Shop
Baster
the Massachusets Bay
Cuilliam
Mary
Isaac Aodington
Benjamin Harris
Boston
Bennington
Calvin P. Otto
Harris
Public Records Office
London
William
Colony of
Massachusetts Bay
Isaac Addington
Elm Street
Frye
Main Street
Bennington, Vermont
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