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We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG).I went to look up Vyacheslav Molotov to confirm that he was Stalin’s Minister of Defense during the Hungarian uprising, and discovered that he wasn’t: He was Foreign Minister.More important, I discovered that the Molotov cocktail, though used to good effect […]

That photo of people on Mount Everest seemed familiar, because it looked like this picture of people going over Chilkoot Pass between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Strike.They didn’t all make it, either, and that fellow at the lower right is apparently carrying a boat, which seems foolish but at least […]