Scythian "flying stag" discovered in a Cossack village in 1897 has become a logo piece for the museum.

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The team now runs on to the pitch preceded by the sound of Cossack music, in grateful tribute to their benefactor.

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The An-225 Cossack aircraft (wingspan 291 feet, 2 inches) was built to transport the Soviet Union's Buran orbiter, their equivalent of the U.S. Space Shuttle.

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In 1649 another Cossack adventurer, Yerofei Khabarov, came to the Amur.

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"Marcia Clark will point out all of the failures of proof that he promised the jury that they were going to have that he never really delivered, " Cossack said.

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But perhaps the most surprising Tiradentes tidbit is the presence of 10th-generation Cossack knifemakers, who have built a cutlery heaven in the manner of a 16th-century Kazak-style dacha compound just outside town.

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Many Russians, despite the financial chaos, are rich enough to pay a few thousand dollars for an officially sanctioned flashing blue light on their car roof, allowing them to carve through the traffic like a marauding Cossack.

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Kulczycki was a Cossack (a mounted soldier) with a quirky moustache who came to Vienna to trade after years on the battlefield and in captivity in Turkey, which is where he discovered the coffee house experience he would bring to Europe and improve upon.

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