The English statesman Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) was prime minister of Great Britain in the years preceding World War II. He is associated with the policy of appeasement toward Nazi German...
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One sure sign that a president has reached his sell-by date--in addition to the collapse of his domestic agenda, the recruitment of friendly intellectuals for brainstorming sessions, and a steady t...
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Where Was It Invented?Snooker was first played in 1875 by a group of British officers stationed in
India
. The lashing monsoons would often leave the men with nothing to do but play billiards, and...
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Question 1 of 10:Who, in 1901, became the first American president of the 20th Century to die by an assassin's bullet?
William
McKinley
Theodore
Roosevelt
Grover
Cleveland
William
Taft
...
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Today is Thursday, May 10, the 130th day of 2007. There are 235 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the comple...
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Today is Monday, May 28, the 148th day of 2007. There are 217 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.Today's Highlight in History:On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets _ Annet...
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Today is Sunday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2007. There are 92 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 30, 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for th...
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Campaign '08: Pledging to seek audiences with the great thugs of our time, Barack Obama would imitate Neville Chamberlain, not the man who won the Cold War and freed millions from communist slavery...
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Politics Of War: Barack Obama tells the VFW there's no military solution in Iraq while Gen. David Petraeus proves him wrong. Petraeus is scheduled to report to Congress on Sept. 15. We'd prefer Sep...
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The Wall Street Journal circulated via e-mail the famous 1938 photograph of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain holding aloft the document that sealed his impotent peace accord with Adolf H...
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Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to...
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Arthur Neville Chamberlain
George Bush = Neville Chamberlain
