No stranger man not even Richard Nixon has ever been at the center of an American national epic.

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Over the centuries, as the ethnic balance shifted in favour of Albanians, Kosovo came to represent a golden age in the Serbian national imagination, embodied in epic poetry.

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Just last week, Oprah Winfrey had confirmed the epic lies of Lance Armstrong on national TV.

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The agency had tried to capture national pride and excitement by depicting the UK as one huge stadium, with an "epic" anthem scored by Elbow.

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That made me a natural candidate to promote this great new video from the good folks at the Interior Department highlighting some of America's epic National Park engagements.

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Seven years the epic Notre Dame-Michigan State tilt, with another national title hanging in the balance and the Irish facing third-and-long from their own 3-yard line, Parseghian decided the prudent call was to gamble.

NPR: 40 Years Ago, Irish-Tide Played Game For The Ages

Niyazov attached such importance to his own epic account of the Turkmen nation that questions on the text appeared in the national driving test.

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For the last two weeks, the American people have been encouraged by Team Obama - both official spokesmen for the administration, its champions in the press and other partisans - to believe a number of national security calumnies that can only be described as surrealistically epic lies and dangerous deceptions.

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