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Chrystia Freeland at her Toronto Center election headquarters, Oct 27, 2013

WW2

     De Gaulle, 1942

De Gaulle had a totally Franco-centric view of everything. This included a supreme disdain for inconvenient facts, especially anything which might undermine the glory of France. Only de Gaulle could have written a history of the French army and manage to make no mention of the Battle of Waterloo.  
Antony Beevor, D-Day.

Though he was a complete pain in the ass, De Gaulle was the man France needed.  And he knew it.

Great Moments In Parenting

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         Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

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Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, Venice 1967

A Noteable Valentines Day Post

 

I guess its worth a try.  Source: the Internets.

Sheeple

    I don't know what's going on here, and I don't want to find out.

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    Interesting photo of Dimitri Medvedev and Vladimir Putin.  From Wikipedia.