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Twenty years ago, three paratroopers shot Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu, rulers of Communist Romania, to death.  Footage of the event, along with the hour-long secret trial, aired on Romanian television later that day.  Christmas day.  Do You Hear What I hear?  Frosty the Romanian.  Feliz Navi-dead. Details are murky, though news outlets try to present [...]

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The crossing begins at one o’clock in the afternoon; a good 23 hours before Washington ever stepped into a boat, though, perhaps, this is for the best:  children have been up for hours now, and to ask them to stay awake in the Titusville cold a shade before the crushing disappointment of December 26th would [...]

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