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fromTime Out New York
2 weeks ago

An iconic Hell's Kitchen watering hole just reopened inside the Columbus Circle subway station

Now, against all odds, Siberia is back. And fittingly, it has tunneled its way into yet another underground space: the Turnstyle Underground Market at Columbus Circle, hidden just steps from the 57th Street-Eighth Avenue subway entrance. It opened quietly last weekend, still labeled as "Gotham Taco" (the space's former tenant), but regulars knew where to look. A red glow, a jukebox and the familiar grin of proprietor Tracy Westmoreland, Siberia's self-proclaimed "minister of propaganda," confirmed the resurrection.
New York City
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fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins - Harvard Gazette

Uralic languages originated over 4,500 years ago in northeastern Siberia, not the Ural Mountains as previously thought.
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