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“Short, dark and a bit sleazy looking…” Hollywood Star Spring 2010 Issue
The “star” of Akim Tamiroff shines among the more than 2,000 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street. This “star” shines in...
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With the Shield & On the Shield Winter 2010 Issue
Assessing the developments of the war in May, 1918, British historian Christopher Yoker wrote, “Had the Armenians suffered a defeat in the battle of...
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Paranormal Parajanov Best Of 2005 Issue
He was great, but somehow foolishly unserious. Sergei Parajanov's ex-wife once said of him: "He is charming, but untolerable." The artist...
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The Knights of Cognac Best Of 2006 Issue
The history of Armenian Cognac began not in 1877, when Nerses Tairyants founded a distillery, but half a millenium earlier. So says historian...
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The Crime and the Acquittal Summer 2008 Issue
Seeing the ghost of his father entirely changed the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet’s perception of life, forcing him to ponder the question which would later be...
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The Architect of the 12th Capital Fall 2008 Issue
History is made in a single attempt; it cannot be rewritten but only revisited. The physical history of Yerevan in the 20th century was written with a bold...
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The Turkish Campaign Canceled Winter 2008 Issue
As early as the Fall of 1944, Stalin gave orders to prepare legal justification for annexing the Armenian lands seized by Turkey to the Soviet Union. This was...
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CXXX: The Hundred-thirtieth Spring 2009 Issue
He dedicated himself to the Armenian people, whom he loved sincerely, and to the Armenian Church, which he served with devotion. He was a charming and modest...
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Great Silence Summer 2009 Issue
In 1995 in the courtyard of the Paul Guiraud of the Villejuif Hospital near Paris, a memorial bust was installed commemorating Vardapet Komitas, one of its...
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Napoleon’s Armenian “Ring” Fall 2009 Issue
Napoleon Bonaparte’s ascent to power was so swift that the European public saw in the Corsican, and quite justifiably, a new “Caesar,” but on a much bigger...
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