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Austin, Thomas, ill-advised rabbit scheme of

Australian Radiation Laboratory

Bakocz, Thomas

Banda, Hastings

barbarians, Roman hiring of

Batchelor, Alan

Bayer Company, heroin developed by

Beauregard, P. T., doomed sub given final tweak by

Beckwith, Charles

Begelman, David, fraudulence of

birth defects

Bokassa, Emperor

Boleyn, Anne

Bond, James

Boston Red Sox

Boudicca, Queen of Iceni, Rome’s ill-judged humiliation of

Boxer Rebellion

Brooks, Garth, identity fiasco of

Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,” opponent unwisely chosen by

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Burr, Aaron, Hamilton’s duel with

bushwhackers

Butterfield, Alexander

Nixon’s tapes revealed by

California gubernatorial election (1966)

cancer

Cape Times

Carson, Kit

Carter, Jimmy

failed rescue attempt by

Caruso, David

Casino Royale (Fleming)

Cassandra

Catherine of Aragon

Catus Decianus

Centers for Disease Control (CDC), phantom epidemics of

Charles V, King of Spain

Chessman, Caryl

Chobe National Park

Christopher, George

Churchill, Clementine

Churchill, Winston

misguided naval appointment by

Church of England, establishment of

Cimino, Michael

Civil War, U.S.:

Battle of Antietam in

bushwhackers in

first submarine in

Cline, Dick

Cline, Isaac, Galveston disaster and

Coca-Cola USA, marketing blunder of

Columbia Pictures

Columbus, Christopher

Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)

Communist Party

Confederacy of Dunces, A (O’Toole)

Constantinople

Creative Management Associates

Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable (Fink)

Cromwell, Thomas

Crusades

Cuba, rebellion in

Dardanelles

Davout, Louis-Nicholas, Napoleon’s bypass of

Dean, John

Deer Hunter

de Joncaire, Philippe Thomas

Democratic National Committee

Dinwiddie, Robert

Disney, Walt

Donenfeld, Harry

Doyle, Arthur Conan, literary bonanza abandoned by

Dozsa, Gyorgy

Dreser, Heinrich, pharmaceutical wrong turn of

Ehrlichman, John

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Ellsberg, Daniel

Enrico, Roger

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Erasmus, Desiderius

Eugenius II, Pope

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)

Federalist Papers

“Final Problem, The” (Doyle)

Fisher, Jacky

Fleming, Ian, Bond killed off by

flu epidemic (1917–1918)

Ford, Gerald

Fort Dix

Franciscans

Francis of Assisi, Saint

Frankenstein (Shelley)

Frazee, Harrison, Ruth traded as money-raiser by

Frederick of Prussia, marriage of Princess Victoria to

Freeman, Simon

French, American territories and

French and Indian War

French Revolution

From Russia with Love (Fleming)

Gaines, M. C.

Galvani, Luigi

Galvanism

Galveston Weather Bureau

Godin de Lepinay, Adolphe

Goeben

Goizueta, Roberto

Goldman, William

Goldwater, Barry

Gomer Pyle

Goodman, Julian

Good Morning World

Gorgas, William C.

Graham, Katharine

Guillain-Barré syndrome

Haldeman, H. R.

Half-King

Hamilton, Alexander, Burr’s duel with

Harrison, William Henry, inauguration chill of

Health Department, U.S.

Heaven’s Gate (Cimino)

Heidi

Helen of Troy

Hello, Larry

Henry I, King of England

Henry II, King of England

Henry VII, King of England

Henry VIII, King of England, problematic personnel decisions of

Heroin, Bayer

Hirshfeld, Alan

Hitler, Adolf

Hoffmann, Felix

Holloway, James L., III

Homer

Holmes, Sherlock

Honorius

Hooker Chemical, Love Canal dumping by

Houphouet-Boigny, Felix

Housatonic

House Judiciary Committee

Hunley

Hunley, Horace Lawson, faulty submarine design of

Hunt brothers

hurricanes

Iacocca: An Autobiography (Iacocca and Novak)

Iceni

Iliad, The

Indecent Exposure (McClintick)

Innocent III, Pope

Innocent IV, Pope

In Praise of Folly (Erasmus)

Irish Republican Army, misguided assassination by

Iroquois

Ismay, J. Bruce

James, Frank

James, Jesse

Jefferson, Thomas

John, King of England

Johnson, Lyndon

John XXI, Pope

John XXIII, Pope, historic achievements of

Josephine, Empress of France

Justice Department, U.S.,

Kabbalah

Kenya Airways

Kenyatta, Jomo

Keough, Donald

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah

Kouassi, Moise Lida

Lee, Robert E.

Antietam and