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When a bill is sent to the president, he has ten days to respond to the bill. During this time, there is a Congress session in parallel and if the session is adjourned during this ten day period, then the bill dies away, and never becomes a law. However, if the president is unresponsive during the ten days, and the Congress session continues, then the bill will be signed into law.
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Answer: In 1787, George Washington was persuaded to attend the Constitutional Convention and subsequently was unanimously elected its president. Washington had to be convinced even to attend the Convention. After the War of Independence, Washington retired to Mount Vernon, planning to return to life as a country squire.
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An interesting fact is that the Egyptions purposely left no trace of evidence on how they built the pyramids. However, a study shows that the Egyptions may have used a technique where they wet the sand in front of a machine which was built to pull heavy objects, such as the heavy stones they used.
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Communists: No invasion of Cuba
United States: Missiles removed from Cuba
Both: Nuclear war avoided
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 1962 crisis between the Soviet Union and Cuba on the one hand and the United States on the other. The conflict began with the US deploying its medium-range missiles in Turkey and Italy, which pointed to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union discovered this and responded by deploying nuclear missile missiles in Cuba. The most tense period began on October 16, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy saw photographic evidence of Soviet nuclear weapons pointing to America. The crisis lasted for thirteen days until October 28, 1962, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the dismantling of the installations against the United States pledging not to attack Cuba and dismantling and removing its medium-range missiles from Turkey and Italy. This crisis is perceived as the period when the Cold War was almost developing into a nuclear war.
