<span>19th <em>Century</em> rags-to-riches tales often experience <em>life</em> in <em>boarding houses</em> ...</span>
Planned murders of Hews gupsies communists and others by the German government
In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
