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MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Josef Stalin and Czar Nicholas II are running neck-and-neck in an online Russian poll to determine the country's most significant historical figure.

NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) -- Peter Sarsgaard and Kristin Scott Thomas have signed on to star in a new version of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" in New York, the play's representatives said.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008.

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the horrendous Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

UPI almanac for Monday, Jan. 29, 2007.

Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2006 with 336 to follow.

Today is Saturday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2005 with 336 to follow.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Czechs are choosing their all-time greatest citizen, real or imaginary, the Prague Post reported Friday. Despite actual heroes like St. Wenceslas and Franz Kafka, the current leader in the popular poll is Jara Cimrman, a fictional character who first appe