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Punctuated Equilibrium
"After once proclaiming that [Stephen Jay Gould] had brought paleontology back t...
Baldwin's History?
Winston Churchill once pilloried one of prime minister Stanley Baldwin's policie...
Tricky Proposition
In March 2003, with an Anglo-America invasion of Iraq on the horizon, Dan Rather...
Lieberman-Cheney Debate
After his stint as George Bush's Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney entered the b...
Nixon-Kennedy Debate
In 1960, during one of the famous televised debates between presidential candida...
Debatably Cheating?
"An old school friend recalled years later that the First World War commander [S...
Honourable Member?
"In the House of Commons in 1967, the debate on David Steele's Abortion Bill was...
Jenna Jameson
Despite her role as an international porn star, Jenna Jameson was hardly the blo...
Unearned Increment
Following his marriage to the heiress Grace Joynson in 1895, William Hicks adopt...
Princess Diana: Abolishing ...
According to Andrew Morton's Diana: In Pursuit of Love, Princess Diana on...
Ben Disraeli and the Temple...
In 1835, the Irish Roman Catholic leader Daniel O'Connell attacked Benjamin Disr...
Roman Justice
A former Roman provincial governor was once accused of embezzlement, a charge wh...
Disraeli's Maiden Speech
When Benjamin Disraeli delivered his maiden speech - a brilliant retort to his o...
Debating Boner
In September 2003, Colombian MP Luis Eduardo Diaz was suspended for five session...
James Stockdale: Presidenti...
Admiral James Stockdale was Ross Perot's running mate in the 1992 presidential e...
Dan Quayle & Lloyd Bentsen
During a memorable Vice-Presidential debate in Omaha, Nebraska, during the 1988 ...
Thomas Huxley: Darwin's Bul...
The disagreement between the supporters of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ...
Brooks & Sumner
During a Senate debate on Kansas statehood in 1856, veteran Massachusetts Senato...
Clintus Interruptus
One day during a debate in the 2000 presidential election race, George W. Bush f...
Campaign Stop
While standing beside a political opponent on a balcony at a rally one day, Thom...
Bush-Bush Debate
During the war in Iraq, "The Daily Show" aired a mock debate between Texas Gover...
William F. Buckley: Electio...
In 1965, William F. Buckley ran against John Lindsay, a former Yale classmate, f...
George Kittredge: Opinions ...
The great Shakespearean scholar George Kittredge once confronted a student asser...
Political Debate
"I sat on the front bench for the Prices and Incomes Board debate for most of th...
Alan Keyes: Opposite of Cool
"The Republicans' new champion is the opposite of cool," The Economist de...
President Quayle?
While campaiging for the Vice Presidency in 1988, Dan Quayle was asked what he w...
Trumpington of Sandwich
During a debate on a proposed amendment to the Social Security Bill in July 1986...
Cant of Patriotism
During an impassioned debate one day, The Tory MP Sir Francis Burdett voiced his...
Kitchen Debate
In late 1958, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United Sta...
Maury & Mirabeau
One day after the French Revolution, Cardinal Jean Maury addressed the Constitue...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and A...
In a debate one day during the 2003 California gubernatorial election race, Arno...
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