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Talcott Williams Seelye
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “arabist”. Today it says “united states foreign service officer”.
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Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Seelye entered the Foreign Service in 1950 and went on to serve as United States Ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1238187090.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “arabist”. Today it says “united states foreign service officer”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
arabist
Now
united states foreign service officer
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