According to the dictator, that's exactly what happened.

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Clever Halloween costumes that make you think a minute and then laugh.
Let me put this right up front. The headline to this post is slightly misleading, but not dishonest.
No matter how much potential a movie might have, sometimes a studio just doesn't get it right the first time.
The 13-bed, 14-bath house is located in the city's Alamo Square district.
The Tom Sawyer-esque hideout was a big hit with both children and adults.
By some accounts, the average person owns 19 pairs of shoes. But it’s not just our closets that are overflowing with sneakers, loafers, pumps, and wedges. It’s also our vocabulary.
Chances are if you’ve ever learned a language you’ll have stumbled across a few false friends—words that look (but don't necessarily sound) similar in two different languages, but differ entirely in their meanings.
A relic of an ambitious, abandoned plan to send mail across the U.S. using Cold War-era weaponry.
Here are some forgotten niceties worth remembering.
Around 2000 flights cross the Northern Atlantic each day, mostly following the same flight paths. How do they avoid disaster?
If you can name it, you can make a competition out of it.
If you'd rather watch paint dry, now you can.
Bruno has been making the trek for 12 years, and has become a local legend.
We’ve got chills…
Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the 'Appendix Probi,' a straightforward list of the “say this, not that” variety.
Residents of Laguna Beach also wondered if people would still be going to the beach nearly naked in 2016.
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC, pronounced: JAY-sock) is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president's secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United S
Got a radiator warehouse that needs protecting? Consider a skunk.