Reporting from wanting to be on the Carpathian mountains.

[5 June 2025 2:51 PM]

Ion Ceban went to Berlin indefinitely?

[25 June 2025 4:11 PM]

A Mavrocordatoi heiress left Moldavia to join Russian court before it revolted; an ancestry website indexed her grave to New Jersey, which is less likely than consensus 'fact' of her Leningrad resting place. Her name can, at least, be traced to 700s Bulgaria where a bilingual Greek intercepted (like a veritable Trojan Horse) invasion to convert Thessaloniki: whether Ivan MavrodY belongs to Ukrainian or Bulgarian canon is a matter of philological debate. [27 June 2025 4:37 PM]

Ghislaine Maxwell's father was reportedly a Czech/Ukrainian tabloid rival to Rupurt Murdoch, chair of NewsCorp that includes Wall Street Journal. Ivana Trump, Don Trump's 'first dead wife' from Czechoslovakia, passed away on Bastille Day in 2022. Ivana and Kurt Vonnegut both died from falling down the stairs in Manhattan (Vonnegut had been lifelong smoker). [18 June 2025 12:17 PM] (One of my print-on-demand zines reviews Murdoch's latest marriage.)