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  • Some Sundays, Grandpa takes me to Saint Theodosius, his green onion-domed church on Starkweather Avenue, not too far from the West Side Market where he buys his kashkaval and freshly butchered lamb.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Andrew Biliter at the blog readrussia. com has some handy tips on how to tell whether that penis enlargement email was written by a vodka-swigging bearded man sitting in an onion-domed house.

    The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives 2009

  • Andrew Biliter at the blog readrussia. com has some handy tips on how to tell whether that penis enlargement email was written by a vodka-swigging bearded man sitting in an onion-domed house.

    How To Tell If Your Spam Came From Russia - The Consumerist 2009

  • Presenting Hav as a fascinating nexus of East and West, a teeming entrepôt of cross-breeding cultures, Ms. Morris describes the architecture with great relish: There are mosques from brief Arab rule during the Crusades, Russian onion-domed palaces, colonial remnants from the post-Napoleonic "Hav Britannica," and "the most cheerful of follies," a multistoried pagoda built by 15th-century Ming Dynasty traders.

    Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach 2011

  • Some Sundays, Grandpa takes me to Saint Theodosius, his green onion-domed church on Starkweather Avenue, not too far from the West Side Market where he buys his kashkaval and freshly butchered lamb.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • An inestimable number of turrets surrounded the big dome, each capped by onion-domed minarets.

    Stalling 2010

  • Russia's love affair with homophobia is so entrenched in the culture that patriarchs placing pink triangles on their foreheads would be met with derision and onion-domed churches set ablaze (for good measure).

    A Rib-cracking Bear Hug: The Russian Orthodox Church Embraces Gays: 2009

  • If diplomatic history were actually so important as opposed to civilizational contempt, then the FBI should be bugging onion-domed Orthodox churches and store-front ministries run by Congolese and Salvadorans.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rudy’s Appeal 2007

  • This boy was trying to make onion-domed towers, but the sand was not quite the right consistency.

    What I Did Over Summer Vacation - Part 1 Sandcastles Gail 2009

  • Russia's love affair with homophobia is so entrenched in the culture that patriarchs placing pink triangles on their foreheads would be met with derision and onion-domed churches set ablaze (for good measure).

    Printing: A Rib-cracking Bear Hug: The Russian Orthodox Church Embraces Gays: 2009

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