Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
-Gertrude Stein
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
![]() Liberian President William R. Tolbert Is Killed in Military Coup (1980)Liberia was founded in the 1820s by former slaves from the US, and tensions between the Americo-Liberian minority and the indigenous majority have persisted since that time. On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers led by Samuel Kanyon Doe stormed the executive mansion, killing Americo-Liberian President William R. Tolbert and 27 other government leaders. Doe, a member of the ethnic Krahn tribe, then declared himself president. How had a rice scandal seriously undermined Tolbert? More... Discuss |
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They have the same initials.
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