Pinsk
Americannoun
noun
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In December 1943, German forces dropped leaflets around Soviet partisans in the Pinsk marshes bordering Belarus and Ukraine, urging “partisan Ivan” to return to his family and farm.
From Slate • May 3, 2022
Pearl Adler, gifted with neither height nor looks, grew up in the Russian Pale not far from Pinsk to a peripatetic tailor who considered himself a bit of a dandy.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
Viasna said the searches Monday targeted civil society activists and human rights defenders in the cities of Brest and Pinsk in western Belarus.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021
That shining ribbon of water, lined with its proud white cliffs, is for us what the impassable Pinsk Marshes are for that other, peripheral European, Russia.
From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2019
So much interest was taken in this account that in 1831 a certain Baruch ben Samuel, of Pinsk, was sent to search for the children of Moses in Yemen.
From The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined by Baron, David
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