Eight Things To Know

The Beatles; Cigarette Camps; the Big Lie; the Soviet bloc; Mitt Romney, and more

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1. “More popular than Jesus.”

2. Cigarette Camps

3. Today’s word is “samizdat”

4. In their own words: Czechoslovak writer Václav Havel on the Big Lie

5. Remembering Rae Wilson and the North Platte WWII Canteen

6. This week’s bold prediction: Mitt Romney’s next run

7. Odd, but true: Beatles wigs

8. Worth a thous…