Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik

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Famous house of architect Melnikov on Arbat street in Moscow Russia

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Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922-1991. USSR, Soviet Union.

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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

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Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

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Born	August 17, 1911
Died	May 5, 1995 (aged 83) • Moscow • Russia

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal

Latvian chess player

Garry Kasparov

Soviet-born chess player

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov

Russian chess player

Boris Spassky

Russian chess player

Viktor Korchnoi

Russian chess grandmaster

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov

Russian chess master

Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova

Russian chess player

Alexander Alekhine

Russian-French chess player

Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan

Soviet chess player

Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson

British chess player

Nona Gaprindashvili

Soviet chess player

Maya Chiburdanidze

Soviet chess player

Oleg Baklanov

Soviet politician

Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev

Soviet politician

Vladimir Lenin

prime minister of Soviet Union

Nikita Khrushchev

premier of Soviet Union

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary

Stanislav Petrov

Soviet military officer

Mikhail Gorbachev

president of Soviet Union

Andrey Sakharov

Soviet physicist and dissident

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