My fellow Americans: It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land. Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck. We say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he will be the next president of the United States of America. Thank you for your vote.
Following the attacks in Paris and the subsequent UN resolution, Francois Hollande, the president of France, has visited the USA and Russia. In this issue we report on what has happened over the past two weeks and Mr. Hollande's attempts to get countries to work together to defeat the IS. In other parts of the world, Argentina has a new president, the remains of a tropical forest has turned up in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and an eagerly awaited dinosaur auction disappoints. Scientists warn about picking up blue dragons and explain that it is not just migrating birds that have inbuilt 'biocompasses'.
Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President
When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike.
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After nearly 1,000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries, and hundreds of websites, is there anything left to say about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Hell, yes. The Kennedy assassination remains both the greatest whodunit of the post-World War II era and the best route into recent American history.
