Sometimes it just ain’t easy working for the State Department. If you go through the lengthy history of the Foreign Service…
OK, when you think about State Department types — if you think about them at all — chances are they’re…
On August 30, 1983, a Boeing 747, Korean Airlines 007 took off for Seoul from New York’s John F. Kennedy…
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The Olympic Games, despite their lofty ideals, have since their inception in ancient Greece intertwined the best of athletic competition…
December 7, 1941 will forever be one of the most memorable dates in American history. The attack on Pearl Harbor, a preemptive…
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The early 1950s witnessed a thaw in the Communist monolith. Stalin’s death in 1953 led to Khrushchev’s “secret speech” in…
As a result of Anwar Sadat’s growing authoritarianism and treatment of his opposition, tensions in Egypt began rising shortly after…