I present to you Jón Þorláksson, prime minister of Iceland in 1926-1927, who posed for his official state portrait with a lit cigar.
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I spot a pattern!
The U.S. maintains a large air base in Kyrgyzstan vital to its operations in Afghanistan, particularly vital now since Obama has promised to step-up American presence there. Now Kyrgyzstan is threatening to close the base after several years of friction (including an incident where a Kyrgyz driver was accidentally killed by an [...]
At some point in the distant past, probably as a result of RSVPing for some free SXSW party that I didn’t even attend, I ended up in the address book of Dateline Iceland, a monthly email dispatch from Iceland’s official tourism board. My interest always momentarily piqued when it appeared in my inbox, but my [...]
