Top Items About Resignation
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| Anecdotes | Hannibal`s End | When the Romans defeated King Antiochus III`s Syrian forces at Magnesia (in 189 BC), they demanded that Hannibal,... | Anonymous | 67 | |
| Anecdotes | Tents Decision | President Lyndon B. Johnson once sought a way to remove J. Edgar Hoover from his post as the head of the FBI. When... | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Anecdotes | Refuge | Caught in a sudden storm one day, Heywood Broun sought refuge in a local bar. Having ordered a drink to warm himself,... | Anonymous | 21 | |
| Anecdotes | 80 | At the ripe age of eighty, Cato the Elder began to study Greek. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was asked what had possessed... | Anonymous | 13 | |
| Anecdotes | Cookie Crumbles | One day Alice Cooper auditioned for Frank Zappa. At last, Zappa threw his hands over his ears and yelled, "All right!... | Anonymous | 12 | |
| Anecdotes | Chauffeur | At the age of 93, George Burns, having had four car accidents in a single month, hired another man to drive him around town. | Anonymous | 12 | |
| Anecdotes | Hemlock | When Socrates was tried on charges of corrupting the Athenian youth and sentenced to death by drinking hemlock, his... | Anonymous | 11 | |
| Anecdotes | Pran`s Dock | "The Newfoundland poet [E.J. Pran]... had a cottage near Bobcaygeon, Ontario, to which he would retreat each summer... | Anonymous | 9 | |
| Anecdotes | Case in Point | At a dinner party one evening, a talkative young woman, having failed to elicit a response from the famously taciturn... | Anonymous | 8 | |
| Anecdotes | Father Figure | "The Public Library has a system called `Dial-A-Tale.` Anytime a young child wants to hear a fairy tale, he can call... | Anonymous | 8 |
