This isn't historical, but there's an episode of Frasier (where he and Niles compete to join a club) and the waiter offers Frasier "a glass of port", when the bottle is clearly Madeira.

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Just smashed the Everyman crossword - which often takes me all week, or I have several clues left that I can't solve - in about twenty minutes.

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URGENT: As you prepare to vote in your municipal elections, please don't skirt the SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE elections, even if you don't have children. Nowhere more than any other level, the schools board elections are targeted by far-right, anti-trans/anti-EDI lunatic candidates. Vote to keep them out!

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It’s helpful to have an actual Labour MP saying right out that it’s not what transgender people do or say that is the problem: it’s their presence that she objects to, their existence. Yes, this is what it always was, and these people just keep winding each other up and up to ever more extreme views

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In 2022, an Israeli battalion of soldiers kidnapped, beaten, tied up, and left 78-year-old American citizen Omar Assad to die on the side of the road in the occupied West Bank. No one was ever charged for that murder. Anthony Blinken absolved that unit of Leahy Law violations in 2024.

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