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No Bark, But Big, Big Bite; Va. Man Wounded By Copperhead
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Fred Platten had a close and painful encounter with a
copperhead snake this week near the Department of Housing and Urban
Development in Southwest Washington. When the 18-inch pit viper sank
its fangs into a knuckle, his left hand swelled within minutes --
and felt like it had been dipped in boiling water.
"It was just an immediate seering pain," Platten, 31, a Lotus
Notes developer for Caci International, said yesterday from his bed
at George Washington University Medical Center. "My finger felt like
it was on fire. Then the burn started seeping down into my hand."
Platten is the ...
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Lavrenti Beria executed: December 23rd, 1953.(Months Past)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; LAVRENTI PAVLOVICH Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him 'my Himmler...succeeded Yezhov, who was shot on Stalin's orders, apparently at Beria's prompting. Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps...
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Putin and Georgia Officials Intensify Rhetoric in Dispute; President Calls Russians' Arrests 'State Terrorism'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...dictator Joseph Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, who, like Stalin, was a Georgian known for bloodthirsty...on the crisis. "It is a sign of the legacy of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's policy." On Thursday, Russia recalled its...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...psychologist, 1886; Wilfred Owen, poet, 1893; Betty Compson (Eleanor Luicime Compson), actress, 1897; Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, chief of the Russian secret police, 1899; Friederich Robert Donat, actor, 1905. Deaths: St Edward the...
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