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TriviaAfghanistania?

Afghanistan is the only nation on earth whose name begins with an "A" but doesn`t end with one.

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JokesBush - North Pole joke

"Russia is claiming that it owns the North Pole. President Bush is furious and said, `That`s ridiculous. Everyone knows...

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AnecdotesAlanis Morissette: Monumental Blooper

One night during the Latin American leg of her "Feast on Scraps" tour (in September 2003), Alanis Morissette played her...

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AnecdotesCold War

"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was," Steve Martin declared shortly after Reagan`s victory in...

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AnecdotesMichael Moore: War in... Iraq?

In November 2003, Michael Moore addressed a group of students at Cambridge University. "I actually hold Blair...

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AnecdotesGeo-Politics

In 1832, a volcanic island surfaced near Mount Etna, 30 kilometres off the coast of Sicily. Naturally, the discovery...

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AnecdotesBrokan Planet?

For many years, viewers of Tom Brokaw`s "NBC Nightly News" may have noticed an oddity with the globe on the studio set....

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AnecdotesDardanelles

"At Hurstmonceaux friends brought an American woman to lunch," Peter Coats once recalled. "On being asked about her...

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AnecdotesReagan`s Map

The Information Center of the World Peace Council once issued a poster delineating the world according to Ronald Reagan.

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AnecdotesEl Surpriso?

One day in 1982, Ronald Reagan was asked whether a recent trip to Latin America had changed his impressions of the region.

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