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    PUTTING THE MI IN MIG

    National Review Online
    Aug 8 2013

    By Mark Krikorian
    August 8, 2013 4:46 PM

    When you're member of a small tribe, every appearance by a paisano is
    notable. Did you know the Delta faucet was invented by Alex Manoogian?

    Or that the newborn Prince George Alexander Louis is 1/512th Armenian?

    (His great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Eliza Kewark,
    was half Armenian, half Indian.) And that Principal Skinner's real
    name is Armin Tamzarian?

    Anyway, I just went through the slide show on MiG monuments on
    NRO's home page (no link, you just have to scroll down) and saw to
    my consternation that it missed the most notable such monument. In
    Sanahin, in northern Armenia, there's one at the museum to the Mikoyan
    brothers, one of whom, Artyom, was an aircraft designer who's the
    "Mi" in MiG (Mikhail Gurevich provided the "G"). Some pictures of
    the museum are here, including this one:

    (The other Mikoyan brother, Anastas, was a wily SOB who was the only
    old Boshevik to outlive Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev and die in bed.)

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/355327/putting-mi-mig-mark-krikorian




    From: A. Papazian
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