Alexander Solonik’s Epic Prison Escape Wikimedia CommonsAlexander Solonik was the only person to escape from Matrosskaya Tishina and remain at large.
Alexander Solonik was as mysterious as he was deadly. A former policeman, he was an expert marksman and proficient in martial arts. He may or may not have been in the Soviet special forces, but he undoubtedly became a contract killer for the Russian mob. While that landed him in prison, it also got him out of it. Read More...
Much of the way we think and speak about Iran is broken, and that comes at least partially because much of Iran’s reality is obscured from view. What, then, are we to make of the bits and pieces of Iranian “reality” that surface in the form of the “Rich Kids of Tehran?”
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From the Mad Men of the ad world to the riots in Harlem to the artists of Greenwich Village, this was New York in the 1960s. New York's skyline sits in darkness during the 1965 blackout.Orville AndrewsFPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The streets of Harlem. Circa 1960.Susan Schiff Faludi/Getty Images A woman walks down the street, sporting the styles of the era. 1969.Vernon Merritt III/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Two terrified African-American girls flee police officers during a race riot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, itself sparked by the rioting over police brutality in Harlem. Read More...
