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Discovery solves mystery of last Czar's family

Preliminary results from a U.S. military laboratory show that remains exhumed outside the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in 2007 belong to two children of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, a spokeswoman for Yekaterinburg regional governor Eduard Rossel said Wednesday.

Time.com: Playing Politics with the Romanovs

Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia

Fortune: Take another look at gin

Vodka martinis. Vodka and tonic. Vodka gimlets. These days it's vodka vodka vodka. It's hip. It's clear. It mixes with everything - and it's fashionably expensive. But what happened to gin - one of the alcohols that cocktails were originally created to dilute?

Fortune: Russia, Yesterday and Today

This bond was issued by the Wladikawkas Railway Co. in St. Petersburg in 1900 and "absolutely guaranteed by the Imperial Russian Government for the payment of interest and principal." Like today, R...

Fortune: A New ERA, The Decline of Everyone, Rethinking McDonald's, and Other Matters. Baby Talk

''Kindly run a Nexis search on the Center for Defense Information,'' shrilly demanded the Keeping Up analyst on the social issues desk, his voice cracking like Henry Aldrich's, ''as it is next to i...

Fortune: Collectibles

Trying to figure out what to do with that 1911 Black Sea/Kuban railway bond Grandpa left you? Tired of using Imperial Chinese government certificates for wallpaper? Take heart, but not much, from t...

Fortune: Booze for Bolsheviks, A Billion Hours of Driving, The Odds on God, and Other Matters. 1984

In which your correspondent, who hates to throw away anything and especially a fact, parades a few details he was never able to work into Keeping Up during the year just completed even though their...

Fortune: Booze for Bolsheviks, A Billion Hours of Driving, The Odds on God, and Other Matters. It's Not Fair

Last fortnight, faithful readers will recall, we glancingly registered dismay over the page-one homage paid Pierre Trudeau by the New York Times and Washington Post on the occasion of this person's...

Fortune: Booze for Bolsheviks, A Billion Hours of Driving, The Odds on God, and Other Matters. Turnpike Trade-offs

Why are newspapers of every coloration sounding off these days on the 55- mile-per-hour speed limit and the lives it is allegedly saving? Well, it seems that a panel of scholars assembled by the Na...

Fortune: Booze for Bolsheviks, A Billion Hours of Driving, The Odds on God, and Other Matters. Great Albeit Sleepy Moments in Scholarship

ITHACA--For the last 35 years, one course in Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration has had the reputation of being one of the easier A's in the Ivy League . . . Hotel Administration 1...

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