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| Displaying Latin America Anecdotes: 67 Found |
Red in the Face?
Eleanor Roosevelt once subjected Winston Churchill to a diatribe on the subject ...
Bitter Harvest
Barbara Bush once accompanied her husband, President George Bush, on a state vis...
Morales Booster
Just four days before Bolivia's presidential election in June 2002, the U.S. amb...
Audentes Fortuna Juvat?
A scene in one of Robert Benchley's movie shorts called for the writer to be str...
Quip Pro Quo
Basking in the stunning success of The Green Hat, Michael Arlen went to C...
Oscar Wilde & Christopher C...
Oscar Wilde was once buttonholed by an American admirer. "Wonderful man, Columbu...
Colin Powell: Like a Baby
One day in February 2003, with America on the verge of a war with Iraq, Secretar...
Vernacular
Duke Borso once sent a letter in Latin to the mayor of an outlying village order...
El Surpriso?
One day in 1982, Ronald Reagan was asked whether a recent trip to Latin America ...
Jerkus Maximus?
The sports writer John Kieran was once invited to address a Latin class at an ex...
Pink Apparition
"In the Colombian jungle, during Expedition Darien, Major Blashford-Snell's sple...
Foreign Aid
In March 2003, George W. Bush announced that any invasion of Iraq would be follo...
Paper Mill
John Stuart Mill was taught Greek and Latin under the tutelage of his father Jam...
Lecoq
In 1874, the French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered a new ele...
Alanis Morissette: Monument...
One night during the Latin American leg of her "Feast on Scraps" tour (in Septem...
God Bless America
In 1970, the photographer Richard Avedon staged his first major show at the Minn...
American Animal
"If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States," H. L. ...
Jefferson
While visiting President Thomas Jefferson in 1804, the famed German scientist an...
Satchmo & the King
In 1932, jazz legend Louis Armstrong played a command performance for England's ...
Moronic Comment
In 2001, President George W. Bush, a former C student, returned to Yale (his ...
American Dream
"Where else but in America," Red Buttons once mused, "can a poor black man like ...
Cold War
"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was," Steve Martin d...
American Toilets
"Our toilets [in England] are just marked boring old 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen,'" ...
Jane Seymour: American Citizen
In 2005, British-born actress Jane Seymour earned her American citizenship. "The...
Christ of the Andes
In March 1904, a large statue of Jesus Christ was erected in the Uspallata Pass ...
Mel Gibson: Passion?
In 2002, Mel Gibson announced plans to direct a curious film about the last twel...
E Pluribus Unum
The Latin phrase 'E pluribus unum' (one from many), adopted by Benjamin Franklin...
Tom DeLay: Super Doofus
Like many hawkish Republicans, Tom DeLay was delighted by the prospect of a war ...
Copacabana, Peru?
In 1986, the Bolivian Ministry of Information found that over 50% of young peopl...
Love is Blind?
Beginning around the age of thirteen, Enrico Fermi discovered his passion for ma...
ENZA
During the 1992 America's Cup competition, many unusual rumors circulated about ...
Loco Sta
While leading a mission to England one day, Saint Gregory was inspired by a sign...
Joe Strummer & the Clash: S...
One day Joe Strummer and his Clash bandmates found themselves counting the numbe...
Big Balsa
Despite his belief that the Polynesian islanders may have originated from South ...
Bastard's Revenge
The famed chemist James Smithson was the only child of the unmarried first Duke ...
American Missionary?
While traveling in India one year, Norman Cousins found himself talking with a H...
Domino
One day not long before his death, an ailing Rabelais donned a domino (a cloak a...
Seasic?
While visiting friends (the Guinnesses) on their new yacht one day, Lady Diana C...
Sex Signals
While studying human attraction one day, famed sex researcher Timothy Perper was...
Ode to Genius
As a practical joke one of Richard Porson's Eton classmates borrowed his copy of...
Latin Scholar
Reginald Foster - an American Carmelite priest and Latin's loudest advocate in t...
American Eagle
Shortly before his death in 1945 FDR, who had served as America's president thro...
Check Mate
During his stay in France, Benjamin Franklin frequently played chess with the el...
Carpe Diem
The Italian soccer player Francesco Totti was not noted for his intellect. He wa...
Sensational Notion
During its sojourn in America, one of Jean Francois Millet's classic paintings w...
Peccadillo?
In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the ...
Jay Lovestone: American Com...
"In 1929, Jay Lovestone, the head of the American communist party, was summoned ...
America's Sweetheart
Stage producer David Belasco gave Mary Pickford her stage name in 1908. Her real...
Ed Schultz: Wacko Liberal?
"I'm not a wacko liberal," popular North Dakota broadcaster Ed Schultz remarked ...
Classic Observation
Manchester Guardian editor C.P. Scott once remarked that no good would ev...
Star-Spangled
After witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore on September 13...
Latin Pun
After the christening of one of Ben Jonson's children, the proud father - notici...
Young Liberal?
Jimmy Carter's young daughter Amy was once asked by a reporter whether she had a...
Question of Taste
Having spent some time in exile in America during the French Revolution, Talleyr...
Old Harrovian
"Winston [Churchill, who went to Harrow as a boy] replies to the debate on war p...
Latin - A Poem by Andy Arch...
The day that Winston Churchill died,
we 'B' stream boys missed Latin class
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A. J. Liebling: Ignoto
"[Not long after leaving Columbia, A. J. Liebling] went on to a beginner's job i...
Litmus Testus
President Millard Fillmore was once offered an honorary degree (written in Latin...
Vespucci
"America gets its name from low-ranking sailor Amerigo Vespucci, who managed to ...
Secret Service?
An Englishman visiting an American friend in Philadelphia one day expressed his ...
Accidental Tourist?
While flying to New York one day in 1960, Fidel Castro turned to Ramiro Valdes a...
USA
Alexander Hamilton, the leader of the Federalist party, would have given little ...
America: Who Are We?
In Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, Samuel P. H...
Ziyi Zhang: One Idea
In 1999, 19-year-old Ziyi Zhang visited America for the first time. "I only had ...
Lukewarm
Before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Afghani President Mohammed Da...
Westward Expansion
One day on his way home from Washington to Kentucky, Henry Clay - inspired by Je...
Georges Clemenceau & Americ...
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau once remarked that America had gone fro...
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