The list included one notable ruler, who wasn’t Russian at all.  Known as False Dmitriy, this guy was actually Polish, and claimed to be the lost son of Ivan.

He ruled for a brief 10 months, until he was discovered to be an impostor.

Once he was discovered, he was killed, and put on display as a warning to other would be impostors.*  Then they sent him home “Russian Style”, which apparently means burning his body and stuffing the remnants into a cannon, which was shot in the direction of Poland.

*The warning didn’t work so well, as two other False Dmitriys eventually showed up.

Ivan III was the first Czar of Russia*.  He was searching for a way to unite the factious princedoms of Russia, and decided that embracing the Catholic Church was the way to do it.

So he took a bride from Rome, and also took the old Roman title for himself, Caesar.

*Technically, Ivan IV (the terrible) was the first ruler to “officially” use the title Tsar, but III used it unofficially.  Also, the point of the post is that the two words are related, so the firsties debate is really secondary.

But they soon realised how serious the man was when he produced a handgun and demanded cash.

Police in New York are now trying to trace the phantom menace, who stuffed cash into a bag and disappeared.

His performance in Burn Notice (if you’re not watching it, you should be) is spot on perfect.

And another reason to like him- he’s a man of the troops.

Read here about the recent visit Campbell and his co-star Jeffrey Donovan made to Iraq.

Exit quotation: “It is more fun out here than firing on a film set,” Bruce Campbell said. “We have editors who make sure we always hit the target.”

The investigation found that Detweiler ran through a stop sign in the presence of Sheriff Deputies, an attempt was made to stop the buggy by Deputies and the suspect refused to stop.

The chase ensued for approximately 3/4 of a mile when the suspect attempted an unsafe turn in a driveway and crashed the horse and buggy.

The victim then exited the buggy and took off on foot, leaving the scene of the accident.

In the survey of more than 2000 British men and women, the fresh-faced look was rejected in favor of women in their late 20s and early 30s. Confidence was also found to be more important in defining beauty than good looks.

The peak age of beauty was identified as 31 – a finding that will undoubtedly be welcomed by celebrities of the same age, including Tom Cruise’s wife Katie Holmes and I Know What You Did Last Summer star Jennifer Love Hewitt.

The gaffes ranged from misspellings of words such as “truning around” and “For God’s skae,” to confusing instructions, to a page that read “This is the end of the Test” when there were actually two more pages.

Pepe said she was alerted to the sloppy tests by teachers, and has since received a strong response from parents who wanted to know how the mistakes could have happened.

“This is about accountability,” Pepe said, after Ingram had taken the blame for the incident during the meeting. “The superintendent didn’t make these mistakes, but we still don’t know who did.”