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Zebulon Pike's tale arresting.
Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado)
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February 28, 2007
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Byline: Margie Wood
Feb. 28--Two hundred years ago this week, the intrepid explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike moved into a new phase of his expedition to Southern Colorado, setting out for Santa Fe in the company of 100 Spanish soldiers.
Whether he was under arrest or being rescued is a question that echoes through Pike's journals. Pike and his men had been through a bitter winter, trudging through the Sangre de Cristo mountains in deep snow, seemingly always on the brink of starvation. They celebrated Christmas near what is now Salida with a feast of ...
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Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...downfall of his Stalinist rival, Matyas Rakosi. While in power, Kadar was conciliatory...Kadar became interior minister in Rakosi's Stalinist regime but it was never...controlled the feared political police. Rakosi kept a jealous eye on Kadar's progress...
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Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...Hungary had one of the worst in Matyas Rakosi. He possessed an aptitude for two...government service was no protection; Rakosi consolidated his power by purging...mass deportations and killings, Rakosi and many of his fellow tyrants quickly...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...desperate revolt was the brutal rule of Matyas Rakosi, Stalin's Hungarian imitator...350 were summarily executed. If Rakosi had ruled a bigger country, Sebestyen...one of the most cynical. Although Rakosi and many of his top aides were Jewish...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Hungary's dreaded "little Stalin," Matyas Rakosi. The Hungarians stayed at the Blair...that not the prime minister but Mr. Rakosi was the real power in his country...John Hightower, to interview Mr. Rakosi. A middle-aged deskman asked to...
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Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Kadar became interior minister in Matyas Rakosi's Stalinist regime, though it...controlled the feared political police. Rakosi had him arrested in 1951 on charges...when Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Rakosi's grip on power slipped. Mr...
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Nazi Germany, and Prime Minister Matyas Rakosi drew on the full panoply of totalitarian...alarmed Soviet leadership to oust Rakosi in June 1953 and substitute another...named Imre Nagy.By 1955, however, Rakosi engineered his rival's downfall...
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