Top Items About Secrecy

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Jokes2 rules for poker players

There are two rules for ultimate success in poker: 1. Never tell everything you know...

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Anecdotes1492?

In 1942, on a squash court beneath the stands at Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, famed Italian physicist...

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AnecdotesBush Administration & CIA neglect to warn Giuliani of terrorist plot

In October, 2001.. the White House was informed by the C.I.A.

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AnecdotesPythagorean Brotherhood

Secure in his new home [in southern Italy], Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood - a band of six hundred...

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AnecdotesPeter Drucker asks GM Publc Relations chief a question

In the early 1930's, GM CEO Alfred P. Sloan appointed Paul Garrett as the company's first public relations office

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AnecdotesWell-Kept Secret

The famed magician Lafayette insisted that the pass door - the small door leading from the stalls into the wings - be...

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AnecdotesIndiscretion

"No secret of the war [World War I] was better kept than the departure of the British Mission to America in April 1917....

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TriviaTrivia about Books, Literature and Publishing

Though The Catcher In The Rye (1951) is J. D. Salinger`s only published novel, he is rumored to write a novel every year...

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AnecdotesDick Cheney - oath of secrecy

Before the first American war against Saddam Hussein, when Dick Cheney was secretary of defence, he had to brief King...

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AnecdotesMicrosoft develops DOS for IBM

When IBM engaged Microsoft to develop its operating system for the personal computer (DOS), it required extraordinary...

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