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Можем разрешать это на шахматной доске. :spiteful:

The line from Hamlet, is, of course, part of everyday English, like so much else written by Shakespeare. Since English spelling was standardised after the Bard wrote his plays, and because it is part...

It's a nice analogy, Basil. Btw, I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed some academic rushed into print with a book claiming that because democracy had triumphed history had effectively come to...

I'm certainly not arguing that Fischer-Spassky had any bearing on the outcome of the Cold War, only,as I said above, that it was an interesting coincidence that they both turned out the same way,...

Both of you seem to like the foreshadowing idea, at least sometimes. Исправляюсь: захотел сказать, что резултаты матча и войны были интересное совпадение. That was what I meant by "foreshadow"....

That's right Aimak, the Internet itself has its origins in the Cold War, the basic technology was developed for military purposes:

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml

I think...

Basil, думаю, что вы не поняли меня. I am not saying that the victory of the American in the match led to the demise of the Soviet Union, simply that it foreshadowed it. In other words, in 1972...

Кто "помнит" это?

http://iulianceausescu.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/fischer_spassky_modern_chess.jpg

You may know about this already, but no history of the Cold War is complete, Starrysky,...

Some of the spin offs of the space race include the CAT scan and MRI technologies found in most hospitals today: http://spaceracehistory.tripod.com/spin.shtml/





When the topic of the...

You are right, Russia in Afghanistan, a neighbour, and the U.S. in Iraq, half way around the world, are quite different. The Soviets failed in their war because of, at least in part, U.S. support of...

I have an interest in the history of the Cold War, so I thought I would start a topic on the subject with a provocative title. We all know about the bad side of the stand-off between the two...