Vice president thomas marshall once told the following story of two brothers. "one ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president, and nothing was heard of either of them again" which of the following best expresses the meaning of this story?
1. being vice president is a dead-end job that dooms a person to obscurity
2. vice presidents are rarely seen because of the high security surrounding the office
3. being vice president is a high-profile job that keeps a person constantly busy
4. vice presidents are rarely heard from because they must travel constantly

answer: in october 1962, an american u-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on the island of cuba. president kennedy did not want the soviet union and cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. he met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.

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world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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