Drew Christie

The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS / Ministry for State Security), commonly known as the Stasi (from Staatssicherheit), was the main security (secret police) and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with an extensive complex in Lichtenberg and several smaller complexes throughout the city. Widely regarded as one of the most effective intelligence agencies in the world, the Stasi’s motto was “Schild und Schwert der Partei” (Shield and Sword of the Party), showing its connections to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the equivalent to the CPSU of the Soviet Union.

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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. He served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. He was known for his hawkish foreign policy. He is a foreign policy “realist”, and considered to be the Democrats’ response to Henry Kissinger, also a “realist”.

Ma Weilong makes propane tanks in a factory in Shenyang (瀋陽), the capital city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. I found his picture in a National Geographic I got at Value Village.

Father Ivan Veniaminov arrived in Alaska in 1824. On wind swept Unalaska Island he built a Russian Orthodox chapel, set up a meteorological station and taught indigenous Aleuts carpentry, blacksmithing and brickmaking. He also learned their dialect, created an alphabet and translated the gospels for them.

Richard Harris discovered the first big gold field in Alaska in 1880. Along with his partner Joseph Juneau, he established a town he called Harrisburg. A year later, angry miners renamed the town Juneau.