Against a unifyingly momentous milieu — namely, the wintry week of revolution that preceded the accelerated downfall, trial and execution of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu on Christmas Day ...

Stopping probably meant being executed. Before the war ... didn’t live long enough to see the rise of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist dictatorship after the end of Romania’s monarchy.

A prizewinner at Venice and Palm Springs, Bogdan Mureșanu's robust ensemble piece captures national unrest in the dying days of the Ceaușescu regime. "The New Year That Never Came" (Courtesy of ...

John Swinney appears to be trying to get 'Full-on John' to catch on as a nickname - but it's not quite 'The Iron Lady' ...

The Romanian dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu was once known as 'The Genius ... wasn't quite so clever after all and, in 1989, executed him on live television. Reinhard Heydrich earned the nickname ...

President Nicolae Ceaușescu, whose ego would have been the only thing that might have filled all 365,000 square meters. The president, however, was tried and executed in 1989, eight years before ...

Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazer by nitrogen gas for the murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1991. Alabama has used nitrogen gas on three other inmates in the ...