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Here's a flashback to 2008, in which John Batchelor and I play Scrooge and Marley to tell the story of mega-conman Bernie Madoff who was charged with fraud in 2008 after running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
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Photo description: From a 1900 illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens,
with a drawing of Scrooge by Frederick Simpson Coburn
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Photo description: Royal forces in North Yemen Civil War circa 1965
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Sir Mohinder Dhillon covering the civil war in Yemen in 1967
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Photo description: Drill of the Cannon: The Shooting), from The Military Exercises
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Photo credit: Joseph Warren Revere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo description: Drawing of Monteray, the then-capital of California. Joseph Warren Revere was part of the United States military that invaded Alta California in 1846 during the Mexican-American War. In his 1849 book about his military stories and life in a Rancho, Revere includes illustrations. This one is an illustration of Monterey, the capital of California.
Date: 1849
