The English statesman Harold Wilson (1916-1995), who served as prime minister and leader of the Labour party, was one of the most skillful political tacticians in 20th-century British history.James Ha...
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Question 1 of 10:The name
Margaret
Thatcher
will always be known to the world. But what was the Iron Lady's maiden name?
Kenton
Browning
Roberts
Thompson
Question 2 of 10:Which of th...
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10:
Ecclestone
This fleeting furore erupted in 1997, when it was discovered that Formula 1's
Bernie
Ecclestone
had made a
Blair
smoothed things out with an apology on TV.£1million donati...
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David Miliband, Britain's new foreign secretary, became the first British Cabinet minister to post a blog last year _ though his entries are often thick with technical jargon.A technology buff, he ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson showed his intensity over Vietnam War negotiations and calculated the public response to his nomination of the first black justice for the Supreme Court in 1967 telephone recordin...
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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2007. There are 76 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 16, 1987, a 58 1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers ...
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LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A copy of a top-secret diplomatic
cable found on the counter of a London bank 40 years ago has
shed light on the collapse of British efforts to negotiate an
early end to ...
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More than 100 years of British tradition came to an end Friday as the final bottle of HP brown sauce _ a popular alternative to ketchup _ rolled off a production line at a factory in central Englan...
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Would France have been better off under Queen Elizabeth II?The revelation that the French government proposed a union of Britain and France in 1956 _ even offering to accept the sovereignty of the ...
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the actions of a prosecutor who called a Louisiana murder trial his "O.J. Simpson case" and kept blacks off the jury.Skeptical justices considered whether pr...
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A row over the secret bugging of a British lawmaker widened Tuesday with a police officer alleging he was pressured by top Scotland Yard bosses to eavesdrop on talks between the legislator and a U....
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James Harold Wilson
Iron Lady: A MargaretThatcher Quiz
