Millions of Americans know that these issues present fateful challenges for the future.
Most poignant of all is Harry Hall's Tour notebook, opened at the page on which a pencilled scrawl records the gears he had fitted the previous night to help Simpson conquer the biggest challenge on the fateful stage from Marseille to Carpentras: "Ventoux: 14/15/17/19/22/23.
And yet, since that fateful day, we have new challenges to face, including a president and administration which, at best, ignore queer people and, at worst, refuse to protect them.
Fate has a fateful way of slipping into symphonies.
He brings out the charming goofiness of this young man's love for the smitten Olga, until he turns hothead when he sees Onegin dancing seductively with her and challenges him to a fateful duel.
Challenging Comey to begin the fateful final full week of the election campaign with additional disclosures, the senators wrote that to do otherwise would be "irresponsible and a disservice to the American people".
In his article the former prime minister also warned that western governments are in danger of making a "fateful error" in assuming that they should only challenge Islamist extremists who advocate violence.
It just took a few detours to get here, and one fateful assist from the Orlando Magic, the team that is now challenging the Lakers for the title.
So did he not take home any lessons from that fateful day on August 8, 2004, when Keyes was sacrificed, rather drafted, to challenge the nation's next president?
The reference is to a fateful decision made by Ben-Gurion in June 1948, after Mr. Begin challenged his vision of a single military force by trying to import weapons and fighters from France aboard a ship, the Altalena.
