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Category: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Officials, 1970s
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 09, 2024 -
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Category: Government, Officials, Farming, 1920s, Arizona
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 30, 2021 -
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Category: Government, Officials, Hair and Hairstyling
Congressman Marion Zioncheck , America ' s crazy MP , is in gaol at Washington after having been accused of standing on his landlady and hurling bottles and a typewriter through the windows of his wrecked Washington apartment uttering wild cries all the time . The incident occurred at the end of a whirlwind honeymoon tour . Mr . Zioncheck has just returned to America with his bride from the turbulent South American island of Porto Rico , which they were requested to leave after figuring in a series of " incidents." On one occasion the Congressman pelted passers-by with coconuts from his balcony . Then the couple arrived back in Washington they were soon involved in the dispute with the landlady , Mrs . Benjamin Young , who told the ambulance men that "Zioncheck ruined my home , called me vile names and stood on me " . It is now stated that Zioncheck intends to run for the US Vice - presidency .
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 08, 2019 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Death, Government, Officials, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
William Lyon MacKenzie King (1874-1950), Canada’s 10th and longest serving Prime Minister was a devoted dog owner in life and in death.While active in politics King had an achingly dull public image, which was certainly at odds with the goings-on in his private life. What the Canadian populace wasn’t aware of was his séances, his consultations with spiritual mediums, table-rapping sessions, tea-leaf readings and communing with the spirits of the likes of former PM Wilfrid Laurier, his long-deceased mother, and of course his dear ghost dog, Pat. That he owned and frequently used both a Ouija board and a crystal ball was published in Time Magazine in 1953, news that shocked the nation. Rampant rumours circulated about King’s oddities, some true, most false. That King had Pat stuffed by a taxidermist so that the little dog would always be by his side turned out to be untrue. King’s detailed diary entries, published after his death in 1950 revealed that King consulted the dead Pats during these séance sessions in manners of international political policy, conscription, and Liberal Party Leadership.
King, obsessed with death and the afterlife, often expressed his wish to communicate with the living after he died, just as he hoped to be reunited forever in the spirit world with his three Pats; “we shall all be together in the Beyond,” he wrote, “of that I am perfectly sure”.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 30, 2019 -
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Category: Communications, Eccentrics, Government, Officials, New Age, Paranormal, Dogs, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 26, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Politics, Officials, 1970s, Native Americans
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 22, 2015 -
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Category: Government, Officials, Travel, 1950s
2011 Federal Employee of the Year from Partnership for Public Service on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 04, 2013 -
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Category: Authorities and Experts, Boredom, Destruction, Government, Officials, Science
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 02, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Government, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Officials, Humor, Africa
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Feb 18, 2010 -
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Category: Architecture, Government, Officials, Money, Odd Names, Political Correctness, Goofs and Screw-ups
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