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Trying this one more time...forgot the link on the last one. Nonetheless, this is pretty cool!
1 posted on 06/30/2016 10:31:55 AM PDT by dware
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To: SunkenCiv

Good stuff!


2 posted on 06/30/2016 10:32:42 AM PDT by dware (You called down the thunder, well now you got it!)
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To: dware

Cue Mary Hopkins:

“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end ...”


3 posted on 06/30/2016 10:33:20 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: dware
But this tavern in the heart of the Russian capital Moscow last served beer nearly 300 years ago.

When did Vodka get invented?

4 posted on 06/30/2016 10:39:17 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: dware

I hope the beer that was served there was better than the Moskovskaya beer that I had when I was in the Soviet Union in 1972. That was some of the worst beer I have ever drunk—it was even worse than Hamms. And it was ubiquitous. It came in green glass bottles, and everyone drank it warm.

The better eateries served Stella, a beer from Egypt that was far better. Seems Egypt was sending beer to the USSR to pay for all the MiG-21’s, SSN-2 missiles and Kalashnikov rifles the Soviets were sending them to fight the Israelis.


6 posted on 06/30/2016 10:51:34 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dware
Bet they served this
10 posted on 06/30/2016 11:27:28 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Objects in history may be closer than they appear")
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To: dware

“Other coins come from the rein of Catherine the Great’s son Paul I who reigned from 1796 to 1801.”

Possible the place was destroyed during the brief Napoleonic occupation of Moscow?


13 posted on 06/30/2016 12:16:38 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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