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The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, of course russia. Russia is the biggest. The second larg...

Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if k...

To a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brattens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. He came from an academic background, had been a history professor. He ended up proving to be a politically skilled guy. When he became president of unc, he made lots of friends in washington. He turneded that into lots of federal funding for unc. He was broadminded for his time. There had previously been a quote on as the number of jews that unc...

Senator for a grand total of three months, elected in 1948, sworn in on new years eve. And then he dropped dead in march. A that was it. That was his whole time in the senator. And before people got used to the idea they had a senator named joseph brotten, the voters didnt get to replace him. The governor got to replace him. It was an open seat. The governor of North Carolina decided to look to a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brottens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at...

And before people got used to the idea they had a senator named joseph brotten, the voters didnt get to replace him. The governor got to replace him. It was an open seat. The governor of North Carolina decided to look to a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brottens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. Background, he had been a history professor, but was a very politically skilled guy. When he became president of unc, he got lots...