Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two days later the honest Marshal had a "toothache"; 13 days later he died. General Kawamoto also fell mysteriously ill, but he was up & around in plenty of time to be at Marshal Wu's bedside when death came to the only honest warlord in China.
It was a busy forenoon for Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's Chief of Army Staff. At 8 a.m. he and his staff arrived at La Punta, Cuba's Naval headquarters outside Havana, and ate breakfast with Naval Chief of Staff Colonel Angel Gonzalez. After numerous goodbys, Colonel Batista...
One day 336 years before Christ was born, old man Diogenes was sunbathing on a Corinthian hillside. Beside him was the tub in which he lived, and his only real friend, a mangy dog. Suddenly a chariot charged up, out of which stepped an elegant, arrogant young man with ruddy...
"And I am Diogenes, the Cynic," said the old man, scarcely looking up.
Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube...