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AnecdotesCaspar Weinblooper

While attending a briefing on NATO nuclear planning in Luxembourg in March 1985, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...

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AnecdotesAli Soufan & FBI diplomacy

The afternoon of the Cole bombing [of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000], Soufan [Ali Soufan, the...

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AnecdotesSimla Accord

On July 2nd, 1972, Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Accord, committing their warring nations (India...

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AnecdotesTaiwan rejects Chinese pandas

China, well aware of the diplomatic power of a panda, hands them out sparingly. I

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JokesGordon Brown praises George W. Bush

"The new prime minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown met with President Bush over the weekend and he praised...

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AnecdotesCultural Ambassador

In his capacity as a semi-official "cultural ambassador" for Slovenia, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek was granted a...

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AnecdotesDelicate Subject

William Gladstone once observed that Benjamin Disraeli enjoyed an enviable reputation of being able to make a joke on...

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ImagesG8 summit

Putin plays Bush like a fiddle.

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AnecdotesFranklin Mooning

Soon after George Washington`s victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin, then America`s minister in Europe, attended a...

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AnecdotesChurchill`s Lion

During the Yalta conference in 1945, Winston Churchill and the British delegation were housed in the Alubka palace,...

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