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Post by hi224 on Oct 17, 2019 18:24:04 GMT
anyone?.
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Post by njcardfan on Oct 28, 2019 11:05:55 GMT
Watergate for nothing else but the sheer stupidity of it. Why Nixon thought he needed to raid the Democrat headquarters I'll never know. There was no way he wasn't going to get re-elected and of course he ended up winning in one of the largest landslides in history.
This Katie Hill one is pretty interesting too. What started out as a threesome relationship has now led to her resignation.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 28, 2019 13:09:25 GMT
Death and the maiden (The death of Amy Dudley wife of Robert Dudley)
Queen Elizabeth I never married, but whether she was actually the “Virgin Queen” has long been in dispute. From the moment she ascended the throne in 1558, rumors circulated of the Queen’s “secret” lovers. The most notable was Robert Dudley. Although in 1560, Dudley’s wife turned up dead at the bottom of a staircase with her neck broken, and the question became not so much whether the Queen was a virgin as whether the Queen was a murderess. Questions persist to this day
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Post by clusium on Oct 28, 2019 18:02:23 GMT
King Edward VIII abdicating the throne for his divorced girlfriend, Wallace Simpson.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 28, 2019 18:18:49 GMT
The Dreyfus affair
Marie Antoinette's Diamond Necklace debacle
Aaron Burr's conspiracy
Operation Car Wash
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Post by njcardfan on Oct 28, 2019 19:12:39 GMT
King Edward VIII abdicating the throne for his divorced girlfriend, Wallace Simpson. Which ended up better for everyone because wasn't Edward VIII a Nazi sympathizer?
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Post by clusium on Oct 28, 2019 22:28:24 GMT
King Edward VIII abdicating the throne for his divorced girlfriend, Wallace Simpson. Which ended up better for everyone because wasn't Edward VIII a Nazi sympathizer? True. There's a silver lining in everything.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 29, 2019 2:42:58 GMT
Besides the popular ones already mentioned, there's the Profumo affair, the Thorpe affair, the Teapot Dome scandal, and Abscam.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 29, 2019 3:08:30 GMT
Besides the popular ones already mentioned, there's the Profumo affair, the Thorpe affair, the Teapot Dome scandal, and Abscam. nice.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 31, 2019 20:35:39 GMT
AMC's Hell on Wheels touched upon the Credit Mobilier scandal too.
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Post by sadsaak on Oct 31, 2019 21:11:33 GMT
Lord Palmerston and the Thaddeus O'Kane divorce case of (I believe) 1864
O'Kane claimed that Palmerston and Mrs O'Kane were having an affair, an accusation that would have destroyed most Victorian politicians. But Palmerston was wildly popular and apart from the musical joke, "She is Cain but is he Abel," (he was 78 at the time) the fuss did him no harm at all.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 31, 2019 21:36:54 GMT
Lord Palmerston and the Thaddeus O'Kane divorce case of (I believe) 1864 O'Kane claimed that Palmerston and Mrs O'Kane were having an affair, an accusation that would have destroyed most Victorian politicians. But Palmerston was wildly popular and apart from the musical joke, "She is Cain but is he Abel," (he was 78 at the time) the fuss did him no harm at all. Palmerston was scan-da-lous lol.
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Post by njcardfan on Oct 31, 2019 21:45:02 GMT
How about the Twinkie Defense?
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