Whenever I hear 'axis of evil' on the news it's always an axis of three countries, so I'm wondering does the word 'axis' have anything to do with being a 'tri-faceted' axis?
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No, you don't. org/wiki/Axis arising out of the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on 25 October 1936
— Mister Micawber
No, you don't.
org/wiki/Axis arising out of the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on 25 October 1936
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In November 1936, the term "axis" was first officially used by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini when he spoke of a Rome-German http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis arising out of the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on 25 October 1936