Seattle’s own statue of Vladimir Lenin gets a holiday makeover. The statue, which originally stood in Poprad, Czechoslovakia, was purchased from city officials by a Washingtonian for $13,000 and brought to Seattle in 1994.
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Pablo Escobar: Profile of a Drug Lord
Mental Floss has a great retrospective on Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Through business savvy and merciless killing he rose from poverty to become more powerful than his country’s government and capable of easily alluding CIA and military efforts against him