TMoP, some misc. annotation

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 26 14:09:27 CDT 2008


Chap 1: Haymarket: At the winding Griboyedov Canal, which snakes south through the heart of the old Haymarket District made famous by Dostoyevsky,

Haymarket, starting with London mid-1600s, is the name for a market place where food was sold, where farmers brought foodstufs and workers worked........in London, Russia, later Chicago, Boston, Licoln, NE. 

Became forever associated with "anarchistic'--bomb-throwing---radicals after the Chicago Haymarket Affair. See wikipedia.


      



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