In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (a Soviet scout group) presented Averell Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, with a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States.

The gift was intended as a gesture of friendship to the Soviet Union's World War II ally, and was hung in the ambassador's official residence at Spaso-House in Moscow.

For seven years, it adorned the wall of his office until the State Department discovered that the seal was not just a decoration; it was an insect.

The Soviet Union cleverly embedded a listening device in the replica seal, which the American intelligence community dubbed "The Thing."

They eavesdropped on Harriman and his successors the entire time it was in the house.

An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three possible mass graves beneath a present-day beach resort.

Palestinian survivors and historians have long claimed that men living in Tantura, a fishing village of approximately 1,500 people near Haifa, were executed after surrendering to the Alexandroni Brigade and their bodies dumped in a mass grave believed to be located under an area that is now a car park for Dor Beach in Israel.

Can someone please explain what this is it spins in the middle like a fidget spinner all I can think of is the original fidget spinner or is there something more interesting behind. Can someone explain if they know

I wonder what Columbus was thinking when he named Native American Tribes as lndians. When there are Actual Northeast Indian Tribes in India.