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* Venetian diplomats could live in unusual places hosted by rulers who were prone to [[Off with His Head|erratic behavior]], sometimes with the foreign diplomats as a target for their wrath. Venetian diplomats were not only known for their cunning but for their [[Stiff Upper Lip|coolness]] and their skill as [[Deadpan Snarker]]s. One example: Venetian Ambassador Giorgio Dolphin was in an audience with Pope Julius II who, in a fit of fury, declared his intent to reduce Venice to a humble fishing village. Giorgio replied that ''Venice'' would reduce ''him'' to "''un curatello qualsiasi''" (a humble country priest).
* The first Japanese ambassadors were samurai. It helped that there wasn't much else for them to do during the [[Meiji Era]]; the feudal system had been abolished and the military thoroughly modernized, so the samurai factions that had allied with Emperor Meiji against the Tokugawa Shogunate had to find less combat-oriented ways to serve.
* For a long time, when travel was constrained, being a diplomat required a long and dangerous journey, sometimes into unknown and uncivilized territory or even through a war zone. If an ultimatum was being carried, an ambassador often had to worry about the receiver's [[Off
**Custer was a frontier diplomat himself as well as a soldier. His reputation at this was not memorable to say the least because of other aspects of his career but he did not ruin the job entirely.
**General George Crook was a very distinguished frontier diplomat as well as a frontier general. He had the distinction of being praised by [[Worthy Opponent| the Apache]] at his funeral.
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