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Legionnaire’s disease

Lesseps, Ferdinand de, Canal mismanagement of

Liddy, G. Gordon

Liebowitz, Jack

Live and Let Die (Fleming)

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Long, John

Louis VII, King of France

Louis XVIII, King of France

Louis XIV, King of France

Louis XVI, King of France

Love, William T.

Love Canal, poisoning of

Luther, Martin

M*A*S*H

McClellan, George B., excessive caution of

McClintick, David

McClintock, James

McCord, James

Macedonia

McGovern, George

Mackay, Charles

McKinley, William, TR underrated by

McNall, Bruce

Magagula, Ephraem

Magna Carta

Maine, USS

Manchu Dynasty

Manhattan Project

Maralinga

Maxim, Jack

Maximus

Mein Kampf (Hitler)

Menelaus of Sparta

Menzies, Robert, mishandled nuclear decision of

Milne, Berkeley

Mitchell, John

Mitchell, Margaret, Groucho as casting choice of

Mobuto, Joseph

Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi

Moi, Daniel arap

Mondale, Walter

Monroe Doctrine

Monte Bello Islands

Montini, Giovanni Battista

Moore, Willis

More, Thomas, unforeseen conscience of

morphine

Mountbatten, Louis

Mswati II, King of Swaziland

Mugabe, Robert

Murray, Anne, Springsteen’s upstaging of

Napoleon I, Emperor of France:

fateful Russian decisions of

Waterloo and

National Broadcasting Company (NBC), NFL game preempted by

National Influenza Immunization Program (NIIP)

National Swine Flu Immunization Program

Nazis, Nazi Germany

Nestor

Netherlands, tulip speculation in

New Coke

New York Jets

New York Times

New York Yankees

Ney, Joachim, as Napoleon’s wrong choice

Niagara River

Nicholas III, Pope

Nile perch

Nimitz, USS

Nixon, Richard

Watergate scandal of

No, No, Nanette

Novak, William, ghostwriting deal

NYPD Blue

O’Brien, Larry

Obst, Lynda

Occidental Chemical Corporation

Odyssey, The

Oliver, Thomas

Olympic

Operation Brumby

opium

Opium War

Orsini, Matteo Rosso

Ostrogoths

Other Guy Blinked, The (Enrico)

O’Toole, John Kennedy, suicide of

Panama Canal

Paul I, Pope

Payne, Ronald

Pemberton, John

Pentagon Papers

Pepsi-Cola

Perkins, Benjamin

Perkins, Elisha

Philippines

Pickering, Charles W.

Pius XI, Pope

Pius XII, Pope

Plantagenets

Prasutagus, King of Iceni

Progressive Movement

Quantrill, William Clarke, future gang members trained by

Reagan, Ronald

Real Coke, the Real story, The (Oliver)

Red Army

Reign of Terror

“Reign of the Superman, The” (Siegel and Shuster)

Republican Party

Richard the Lionhearted

Robertson, Cliff

Robespierre, Maximilien-François-Marie-Isadore de

Roman Catholic Church

papal election by

Rome, ancient

Rommel, Erwin

Romulus Augustulus

Roosevelt, Theodore

war plans of

Royal Navy, British

Ruppert, Jacob

Ruth, George Herman “Babe,”

Sambu, Weseka

Schell, Ronnie

Semper Augustus (tulip)

Sencer, David

serfs

Shelley, Mary

Shuster, Joe

Siegel, Jerry

“Sign of Four, The” (Doyle)

Siri, Giuseppe

Smith, Edward J., unsinkable ship captained by

Snowbird (Murray)

Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland

Souchon

Spanish-American War

Springsteen, Bruce

Stalin, Joseph, Red Army decimation by

Stevenson, McLean

Strand

“Study in Scarlet, A” (Doyle)

Suetonius

Suez Canal

Super Fund

Superman, bargain price for

Swazimar

Swine Flu

television, career missteps in

Thatcher, Margaret

Tippecanoe, Battle of

Titanic, RMS, sinking of

Titterton, Ernest

Tractors

Trinovantes

Trojan War

Troubridge, Thomas

Truscott, Lucian K., IV

tsetse fly

tulips, Dutch speculation in

Tzu Hsi, Empress of China ill-conceived alliance of

Valentian, Emperor of Rome

Valerian, Emperor of Rome

Vance, Cyrus

Victoria, Princess of England, marriage of Frederick of Prussia and

Visigoths

Volta, Alessandro

Wall Street Journal

Washington, George

in failed negotiations with French

Washington Post

Watergate scandal

Waterloo, Battle of

Weather Bureau, U.S.

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

White Star Line

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany

Winkel, Wouter Bartelmiesz

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas

Younger, Coleman

Zyman, Sergio

About the Editors

BILL FAWCETT has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, and college