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Weddle shares mother’s harrowing tale as WW2 sharpshooter, prisoner, survivor
His mother, whose real name was Angelina Gritsenko, was a veteran of the Red Army, one of about 2,000 female sharpshooters ...
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These Are the Most Important Allied Women of World War 2
Some of the most notable Soviet women were snipers like Lyudmila Pavlichenko who is credited with 309 kills, the most recorded by any female sniper in history. As nurses, pilots, engineers ...
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"He had the Cossack spirit, and he died like a Cossack." In memory of defender and musical instrument maker Serhii Pavlichenko
Serhii Pavlichenko crafted his first bandura in 1992. No one knows for sure how many musical instruments he made during his life. He hand-made all kinds of traditional Ukrainian stringed instruments – ...
Scientific American27d
The Daring Russian Geneticist Whose Experiments on Silver Foxes Explained Domestication Has Died
Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment that created hundreds of ultralovable domesticated foxes on a farm in Novosibirsk, Russia, died peacefully in her sleep on October ...
The Daily Telegraph28d
Lyudmila Trut, Soviet scientist who sped up evolution with tame foxes that began to look like dogs
Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of the most significant biology experiments of the 20th century ...
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Madrid feminist mural: Councillors thwart effort to remove artwork
"Your ability doesn't depend on your gender," reads the slogan on the mural, which bears the faces of tennis player Billie Jean King and Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, among others.