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     I love pizza. It is the truth. There have been days I had pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is the universal food. However, would you believe me if I said pizza once helped uncover a conspiracy? Because that did happen not too long ago.    In Washington D.C., capital of the United States of America, policy is heavily debated. Between domestic and foreign affairs, things of defense or economics, you name it. However, all that government work leaves one famished, and what is the number one food ordered by the U.S. government? Domino's Pizza . Was this article created as an excuse to look at pictures of pizza? Possibly.    There are a few Domino's lying around Washington D.C. and, in the early 90s, most of those were operated by one franchise owner: Frank Meeks . Meeks and his Foggy Bottom shop would become famous for some of the dealings they had with the government. According to the workers of these franchises, the State Depar...

   Let me make this clear; I love Christmas. It is the best time of the year, blah blah blah all that stuff you hear on every commercial every December. However, even a Christmas lover like me has to admit Christmas has some weird ass traditions. While almost everyone and their mother has heard about how Christmas traditions originated from pagans and the such, not many have heard the finer details on those origins. Dear reader, I am here to fill that void you did not even know you had.    One of the first Christmas traditions many thinks of is, of course, the Christmas tree. Oh that wonderful time when we slaughter a tree, decorate its corpse, then parade it in our living rooms with decorations! Tree worship is something that had existed in Nordic and Germanic cultures for generations before Christianity came. In Nordic mythology, trees are central to existence as Yggdrasil, the World Tree , is what holds up the Nine Worlds and gives structure to the universe...