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This collection reports the most frequent phrases used to search for documents on this site during the previous month, along with the number of times that search phrase was entered. It does not reflect phrases entered into third-party search engines used to find this site, but rather reflects phrases entered into the search mechanisms on this site. We will try to update this page as necessary somewhere between the 1st and the 15th of the following month.

February 2008:
ufo: 6547
bay of pigs: 1290
bulgaria: 1258
iran: 1215
cuba: 1066
cambodia: 1002
vietnam: 861
guatemala: 650
fidel castro: 535
iraq: 534
colombia: 527
area 51: 471
afghanistan: 457
turkey: 451
chile: 424
kennedy: 409
ussr: 376
korea: 371
nicaragua: 369
castro: 365
panama: 352
poland: 349
cuban missile crisis: 343
pow: 334
oxcart: 330

March 2008:
ufo: 7509
canada: 1878
bay of pigs: 1483
iran: 1398
cuba: 1284
guevara: 1148
vietnam: 1115
guatemala: 890
chile: 798
iraq: 691
soviet: 632
yugoslavia: 616
central africa: 602
kennedy: 587
israel: 473
italy: 461
el salvador: 460
guatemala 1954: 456
japan: 447
poland: 447
afghanistan: 431
greece: 397
brazil: 394
turkey: 390
congo: 372