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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.

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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.

The Canadian representative, Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, signed one line too low on the instrument. Instead of signing on the "Dominion of Canada" line, he signed on the line meant for France. That mistake pushed everyone below him out of place too. France ended up signing on the Netherlands line, the Netherlands signed on the New Zealand line, and New Zealand had to sign below the printed lines altogether.

You can see the crossing out and handwritten corrections next to the France, Netherlands, and New Zealand lines where officials had to strike through the wrong country names and pen in the correct ones to sort out the error after the fact.

But now what to do with this big weird box of chopped off noses? Rather than toss them away, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen⁣ displays their noses all together to show the way museum practice evolves over time.