Babi Yar

[ bah-bee -yahr; Russian bah-byee -yahr ]

/ ˈbɑ bi ˈyɑr; Russian ˈbɑ byi ˈyɑr /

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a ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine: site of German massacre of Jews in World War II.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

“We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want,” said Jihad Yar Wazir.
Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America|Sami Yousafzai|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No, the country of Makhno, of the Holocaust by bullet, and of Babi Yar, was not spared the anti-Semitic virus.
Bernard-Henri Levy: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries Are Not Fascists|Bernard-Henri Lévy|February 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mullah Yahya agrees with Jihad Yar that the media and the Americans are side by side against the Taliban.
Pakistani Taliban Declare War on Media|Sami Yousafzai|October 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Jihad Yar agrees: “Pakistani and Western media never accept our claims of success,” he says.
Pakistani Taliban Declare War on Media|Sami Yousafzai|October 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST

“The night raids are terrible for the Taliban,” says Mullah Jihad Yar.
U.S. Hands Over Night Raids to Afghan Forces, With Possible Consequences|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|April 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It could not have been less than five miles; but the faint "Ta-yar-r-r!"
Left on Labrador|Charles Asbury Stephens
All the dogs were barking; all the Huskies were ta-yar-r-r-ing and chasing on.
Left on Labrador|Charles Asbury Stephens
Do you think I'm in ther habit o' monkeying with ther prisoners yar?
Frank Merriwell's Bravery|Burt L. Standish
Now tell me w'at yer mean by wakin' me an' kickin' up all this yar row.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery|Burt L. Standish
Why ye durned little fool ye, don't ye know Charley's jus put them dogs yar to git 'em kept.
Watch Yourself Go By|Al. G. Field