One of our favorite scenes in A Few Good Men is the one where Jack Nicholson (a.k.a. Colonel Jessup) gives that speech in the courtroom where he's all, "You want me on that wall; you need me on tha...

It's fun to talk about things in code, to give things nicknames that those outside the circle of trust won't understand. While we strongly doubt that Livingston, Monroe, and Barbé-Marbois were try...

As we've gathered from the closing lines of all three Louisiana Purchase documents, the original documents were written in French, and both French and English copies were signed into officialdom. B...