Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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The longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history lasted twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes, a record set in 1957 by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina to stall passage of the Civil Rights Act. Thurmond died in 2003, holding his same Senate seat.
The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—Laozi