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On this day in 1934, Washington Senator's backup catcher Morris "Moe" Berg's streak of 117 games in a row without committing an error comes to an end, setting an American League record. Berg wasn't your typical athlete: before signing with the Brooklyn Robins (they wouldn't become the Dodgers until 1932), he graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. magna cum laude in modern languages. Ted Lyons, Berg's teammate with the White Sox, would say that "he can speak seven languages but can't hit in any of them." Berg didn't have a great bat, but when every one of manager Ray...

21:34 2005-11-03 A mass grave believed to contain the remains of a famous Serb guerrilla commander and nine others executed by communists in 1946 has been discovered after nearly six decades of mystery, local media and an intelligence official said Thursday. The remains were discovered some 400 meters (yards) from the Belgrade White Palace, the Evropa weekly reported. The palace is the former residence of late Yugoslav communist strongman Josip Broz Tito who had ordered the execution of Gen. Draza Mihajlovic, who led the Serb "chetnik" movement loyal to the exiled Serb monarchs during World War II. Serbia's state security...