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McGehee wrote later about his "awakening" to see the CIA in a new, cynical way. Vietnam was in a situation somewhat similar to Thailand. He volunteered to serve CIA in Vietnam, something nobody with an eye on their career was doing in 1968. Then, out of the blue, the CIA's office of training told him how good the Thailand Survey program looked ...
The first bartender's manual, written by Jerry Thomas and published in 1862, contains the recipe for the first flaming cocktail, the blue blazer. [3] The book, How to Mix Drinks , describes [ 4 ] : 76–77 how to turn a hot toddy made with Scotch into a "blazing stream of liquid fire": [ 5 ]
Image credits: anon #2. I had a case where a guy was charged for running a red light. The thing is, he had been sitting at the lights for five minutes, and it hadn’t changed.
On April 15, 1841, the Wellington, W.C. Kendrick, Commander, bound "from Madras and Cape bound to London", launched a bottled message in the mid-Atlantic (at 13° N) "for the purpose of throwing some light on the ocean currents". [49]
A G1 (Minor) watch has been issued for 28 Nov and a G2 (Moderate) watch was issued for 29 Nov due to the arrival of a CME associated with a filament eruption that took off the Sun late on 25 Nov ...
Watch this family pull off the ultimate double holiday for Mike, who couldn't come home for both!
The book also contained a section of notes throwing light on the context and genesis of each poem. [62] In 1998, his Tales from Ovid won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. In Birthday Letters, his last collection, Hughes broke his silence on Plath, detailing aspects of their life together and his own behaviour at the time.
Let's talk about the ultimate white elephant gift paradox – when you find something so ridiculously perfect that parting with it feels like giving away the last slice of pizza. These 25 gifts ...