How many U.S. ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty?
When Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Libya this week, he became the sixth U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1950. Two others died in plane crashes. Four U.S. ambassadors were killed in the 1970s in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Cyprus and the Sudan. The last ambassador killed in the line of duty was Adolph Dubs in Afghanistan in 1979.
What is a lesula?
That’s the name local people gave to a monkey that has lived in remote regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which researchers this week declared a new species. The scientific journal Plos One reports scientists first came across a domesticated lesula in 2007, but have since determined that the monkey roams wild across the Congo. Though only just discovered by science, the lesula is already facing possible extinction because of hunters pursuing “bushmeat.”
What were construction crews doing at the White House these last two years?
The fences that hid the work being done at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for two years just came down, revealing … nothing new. The White House looked the same. Officials said workers spent all that time out of public view updating underground utilities, including water, sewer and electrical lines. Despite the secrecy, government officials denied they were building an underground bunker.
