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...Reckless is by no means the first horse to be honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...
...from what he had heard about the Geneva negotiations (which resulted in his release), "things are going the way I think they should." He claimed that he had been a U.S. spy, but, when questioned, he admitted that he had merely reported his observations of China to an American consul. That's spying, said Rickett. Walter Rickett concluded: "I feel that as an American I have a right to say what I please...
Algeria (pop. 9,000,000 est.), which as a nation is strictly a French creation. Before the French landed in 1830, to chastise the Dey of Algiers for slapping their consul's face with a fly-whisk, the place had been a granary for Rome, a causeway to Western conquest for the Arabs, a nest for Barbary pirates-but never a state or nation...
Three's a Crowd. During the next 20 years, Caesar climbed nimbly up the Roman ladder of state offices-quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul. He became a proper pol. He curried favor with Crassus, the richest man in Rome, and married off his daughter to Pompey, the most powerful...
Bjarne Ursin, Norwegian consul in Boston, presented David with the medal at afternoon ceremonies in the Faculty Lounge of Kresge Hall...