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Samantha Smith

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Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American schoolgirl, peace activist, writer and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1]

133 relations: Aircraft principal axes, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Allies of World War II, Ambassador, American Broadcasting Company, Andrei Sakharov, Anti-nuclear protests, Aroostook County, Maine, Artek (camp), Asteroid, Auburn, Maine, Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, Augusta, Maine, Aviation accidents and incidents, Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, Beechcraft Model 99, Canada, Charles in Charge, Child actor, Christopher Andrew (historian), Christopher Reeve, Cold War, Columbia Pictures Television, Columbidae, Commemorative stamp, Crimea, Cruise missile, Cultivar, Dahlia, Détente, Diamond, Disney Channel, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Eastern Time Zone, Elizabeth II, Elliott Holt, Europe, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, George McGovern, Goodwill ambassador, Gurzuf, Houlton, Maine, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungary, Idealism, Jamaica, Queens, Jesse Jackson, Johnny Carson, Julianne McNamara, Katya Lycheva, ..., Kennebec Journal, KGB, Kobe, Leonid Brezhnev, Lime Street (TV series), List of minor planets: 3001–4000, List of peace activists, List of Tom Sawyer characters, Los Angeles Times, Lyudmila Chernykh, Maine, Maine State Museum, MaineToday Media, Manchester, Maine, Mark Twain, Media circus, Metal theft, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mitrokhin Archive, Moscow, My Sister Sam, Nazi Germany, NBC, New York City, No first use, North America, Nuclear arms race, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear warfare, Operation Barbarossa, Passenger ship, Peace movement, Peacemaking, Per Nørgård, Pershing II, Pravda, President of the United States, Propaganda in the Soviet Union, Publicity stunt, Radar, Rebecca Schaeffer, Ricker College, Robert John Bardo, Robert Wagner, Ronald Reagan, RSD-10 Pioneer, Russian Life, Saint Petersburg, Sammamish, Washington, Sarah York, Social work, Soviet Union, Soviet Union–United States relations, Soviet–Afghan War, Stalking, State government, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Superpower, Ted Koppel, Television film, The Day After, The Golden Girls, The Golden Girls (season 3), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time (magazine), Tulip, United States, United States presidential election, 1984, University of Maine at Augusta, Valentina Tereshkova, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, Voronezh, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Washington, D.C., Western world, Writer, Yankee (magazine), Yasuhiro Nakasone, You Are One of Them, Young Pioneer camp, Yuri Andropov. Expand index (83 more) »

Aircraft principal axes

An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Ambassador

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (p; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights.

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Anti-nuclear protests

Anti-nuclear protests began on a small scale in the U.S. as early as 1946 in response to Operation Crossroads.

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Aroostook County, Maine

Aroostook County (Comté d'Aroostook) is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border.

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Artek (camp)

Artek (Cyrillic: Арте́к) is an international children center (a former Young Pioneer camp) on the Black Sea in the town of Hurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Auburn, Maine

Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Androscoggin County, Maine, United States.

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Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport

Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport is a public airport in Androscoggin County, Maine, opened in 1935.

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Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the state capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County.

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Aviation accidents and incidents

An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, where a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.

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Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808

Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 was a scheduled flight from Logan International Airport to Bangor International Airport in the United States on August 25, 1985.

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Beechcraft Model 99

The Beechcraft Model 99 is a civilian aircraft produced by the Beechcraft.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Charles in Charge

Charles in Charge is an American sitcom starring Scott Baio.

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Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began their acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor.

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Christopher Andrew (historian)

Christopher Maurice Andrew (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services.

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Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Columbia Pictures Television

Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CPT) was launched in May 6, 1974 by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio.

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Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

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Commemorative stamp

A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.

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Crimea

Crimea (Крым, Крим, Krym; Krym; translit;; translit) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast.

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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Dahlia

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico.

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Détente

Détente (meaning "relaxation") is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Disney Channel

Disney Channel (originally called The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1997 and commonly shortened to Disney from 1997 to 2002) is an American basic cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Elliott Holt

Elliott Holt is an American fiction writer and former ad copywriter.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was an office of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) that by the late 1920s had evolved into the most powerful of the Central Committee's various secretaries.

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George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

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Goodwill ambassador

A goodwill ambassador is a person who advocates for a specific cause (e.g. a country or an organisation) on the basis of their notability.

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Gurzuf

Gurzuf or Hurzuf is a resort-town (urban-type settlement) in Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.

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Houlton, Maine

Houlton is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, on the Canada–US border, located at.

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Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (1956-os forradalom or 1956-os felkelés), was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is the group of metaphysical philosophies that assert that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial.

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Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician.

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Johnny Carson

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Julianne McNamara

Julianne Lyn McNamara (born October 11, 1965) is an American former artistic gymnast, who was born to Australians Jean and Kevin McNamara.

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Katya Lycheva

Katya Lycheva (Russian: Катя Лычёва) (born June 10, 1974) served as a Soviet child-ambassador to the United States in 1986.

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Kennebec Journal

The Kennebec Journal is a seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Augusta, Maine.

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KGB

The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (p), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (a; Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 (O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 as the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country until his death and funeral in 1982.

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Lime Street (TV series)

Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season.

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List of minor planets: 3001–4000

#d6d6d6 | 3089 Oujianquan || || December 3, 1981 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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List of Tom Sawyer characters

Mark Twain's series of books featuring the fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn include.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lyudmila Chernykh

Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Людмила Іванівна Черних, Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х, June 13, 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maine State Museum

The Maine State Museum is the official Maine government's museum and is located at 230 State Street, adjacent to the Maine State House, in Augusta.

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MaineToday Media

MaineToday Media is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Maine, based in the state's largest city, Portland.

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Manchester, Maine

Manchester is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, located at.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Media circus

Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event for which the level of media coverage — measured by such factors as the number of reporters at the scene and the amount of material broadcast or published — is perceived to be excessive or out of proportion to the event being covered.

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Metal theft

Metal theft is "the theft of items for the value of their constituent metals".

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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Mitrokhin Archive

The Mitrokhin Archive is a collection of handwritten notes made secretly by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin during his thirty years as a KGB archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the First Chief Directorate.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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My Sister Sam

My Sister Sam is an American sitcom starring Pam Dawber and Rebecca Schaeffer that aired on CBS from October 6, 1986 to April 12, 1988.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No first use

No first use (NFU) refers to a pledge or a policy by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare unless first attacked by an adversary using nuclear weapons.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Nuclear arms race

The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.

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Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, and is often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.

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Peacemaking

Peacemaking is practical conflict transformation focused upon establishing equitable power relationships robust enough to forestall future conflict, often including the establishment of means of agreeing on ethical decisions within a community, or among parties, that had previously engaged in inappropriate (i.e. violent) responses to conflict.

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Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård (pronounced; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer.

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Pershing II

The Pershing II Weapon System was a solid-fueled two-stage ballistic missile designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the Pershing 1a Field Artillery Missile System as the United States Army's primary nuclear-capable theater-level weapon.

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Pravda

Pravda (a, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line.

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Publicity stunt

A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the event's organizers or their cause.

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Radar

Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.

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Rebecca Schaeffer

Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989) was an American model and actress.

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Ricker College

Ricker College was a small college located in Houlton, Maine, United States.

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Robert John Bardo

Robert John Bardo (born January 2, 1970) is an American man serving life imprisonment without parole after being convicted in October 1991 for the murder of American actress Rebecca Schaeffer on July 18, 1989, whom he had stalked for three years beforehand.

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Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–70), Switch (1975–78), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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RSD-10 Pioneer

The RSD-10 Pioneer (ракета средней дальности (РСД) «Пионер» tr.: Raketa Sredney Dalnosti (RSD) "Pioneer"; Medium-Range Missile "Pioneer") was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, deployed by the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988.

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Russian Life

Russian Life, previously known as The USSR and Soviet Life, is a 64-page color bimonthly magazine of Russian culture.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sammamish, Washington

Sammamish is a city in King County, Washington, United States.

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Sarah York

Sarah York is an American who became the pen pal of Manuel Noriega, then the de facto ruler of Panama, at age 10.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet Union–United States relations

The relations between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) succeeded the previous relations from 1776 to 1917 and predate today's relations that began in 1992.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.

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Stalking

Stalking is unwanted or repeated surveillance by an individual or group towards another person.

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State government

A state government is the government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government.

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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 superhero film directed by Sidney J. Furie, based on the DC Comics character Superman.

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Superpower

Superpower is a term used to describe a state with a dominant position, which is characterised by its extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale.

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Ted Koppel

Edward James Martin Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is a British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Day After

The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network.

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The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.

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The Golden Girls (season 3)

The third season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC on September 19, 1987, and concluded on May 7, 1988.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tulip

Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States presidential election, 1984

The United States presidential election of 1984 was the 50th quadrennial presidential election.

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University of Maine at Augusta

The University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) is located in the state capital of Augusta, Maine, and is a part of the University of Maine System.

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Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (a; born 6 March 1937) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician.

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Vasili Mitrokhin

Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Васи́лий Ники́тич Митро́хин; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of KGB files, which became known as the Mitrokhin Archive.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization

The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, abbreviated as or the Young Pioneers, was a mass youth organization of the Soviet Union for children of age 9–15 that existed between 1922 and 1991.

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Voronezh

Voronezh (p) is a city and the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, straddling the Voronezh River and located from where it flows into the Don.

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Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland – on the night of 20–21 August 1968.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

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Yankee (magazine)

Yankee magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire, United States.

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Yasuhiro Nakasone

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 27 November 1982 to 6 November 1987.

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You Are One of Them

You Are One of Them is a 2013 novel by Elliott Holt.

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Young Pioneer camp

Young Pioneer camp (Пионерский лагерь) was the name for the vacation or summer camp of Young Pioneers.

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Yuri Andropov

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (p; – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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References

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