Hello, Goodbye update: Thanks to Larry Wirick of Pittsburg, Calif., for letting us know that the Vietnamese word "chao" can mean both "hello" and "goodbye." With all the Vietnam vets out there, he thought someone else would have written in about it. Nope, Larry, no one else did.

According to the recently published Washington/Lafayette biography, "Adopted Son," the Marquis de Lafayette was the designer of the tricolor French national flag. Its ...

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