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The grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother Jérôme, Charles Bonaparte lacked his famous relative's ambition for world domination yet displayed a talent for visionary authority that might have impressed the Little Corporal. In the late 19th century, Charles Bonaparte, then a lawyer from Baltimore, came into the orbit of fast-rising New York politician Theodore Roosevelt through their shared interest in civil service reform. Bonaparte later became President Roosevelt's secretary of the Na...
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United States-Mexican history
Also known as: Gadsden Purchase Treaty, Treaty of La Mesilla
Also called: Treaty of La Mesilla
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These are baseball’s most scandalous players, many of them convicted criminals. If I have forgotten anyone scandalous, please let me know in the comments. I have asterisked (*) the starter at each position.
The crimes herein range from bigamy and human trafficking to cattle rustling!
For readers in a hurry, my ALL-SCANDAL TEAM, composed entirely of hall-of-famers or “would have beens,” is: (C) Cap Anson (1B) Orlando Cepeda (2B) Rogers Hornsby (SS) Alex Rodriguez (3B) Pete Rose (RF) Shoeles...
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Records are meant to be broken, but at least one weather-related event is unlikely to be bested anytime soon: the biggest snowstorm in American history, which dumped nearly 5 feet of snow on the Northeastern U.S. The aptly named Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great White Hurricane, occurred in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut between March 11 and 14, and saw as much as 58 inches (4.8 feet) of snowfall. That was in Saratoga Springs, New York, while Ben...
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