Politics and Government Trivia

  • While in power, Stalin banned crosswords since he believed them to be 'bourgeois and degenerate'.
  • Clinton, Bush and Obama each won US Presidential re-election. The only other three consecutive presidents to win re-election: Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.
  • Among the moguls, only Aurangzeb treated treasury as separate from his personal income; other rulers made no such distinction.
  • Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland, had the longest monarchial reign documented lasting 82 years and 9 months!
  • The oldest surviving parliament is in Iceland. It first met in 930 AD.
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