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The CIA's codename for the coup, run in Iran by officer Kermit Roosevelt. Britain's parallel codename was Operation Boot.

Together they bribed officials, editors and clergy, staged street protests, and pushed the Shah to dismiss Mossadegh.

In 1778, two Irish aristocrats ran away from home together, got caught, tried again, and eventually built a life in a rented Welsh cottage that turned into one of the most talked about addresses in Georgian Britain.

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby spent the next fifty years there, hosting poets, generals and eventually a queen's own interest, while carefully never explaining exactly what their relationship was.

Two centuries later, historians are still arguing about it, and once you get past the postcard version of the story, it's a lot more than two ladies who just liked living together.

When Jeffs' father, Rulon passed away in 2002, Warren stepped into his father’s role, assuming the titles of “President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator” and “President of the Priesthood.” These titles gave him nearly complete control over the adult male church members and vast spiritual influence over the entire congregation. He would decide on who could marry who and what discipline needed to be administered...

Thankfully, he's now locked up, but still wields complete control over some of his flock whilst he's incarcerated.

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The standoff ran 36 hours, involved 200+ police including a Paris anti-terror unit, ended with the first ever deployment of RAID, and somehow nobody was killed, despite Courtois firing shots at the crowd from the courthouse steps at one point.