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Get the Summary of Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Some People Need Killing" by Patricia Evangelista is a poignant exploration of the human cost of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines. The book follows the story of Lady Love, an eleven-year-old girl from Manila's slums, whose parents are killed by masked gunmen enforcing Duterte's anti-drug...
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#1 The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.
#2 The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in...
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#1 Istanbul is the crossroads of civilizations, where Europe meets Asia. It was once called Constantinople, named for the fourth-century Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. The city has been the capital of two grand empires.
#2 Istanbul is a vast city with 15 million inhabitants. It is split into two parts by the Bosphorus Strait, which runs north to south through the...
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#1 The fight in the Marianas that June crystallized the issue. The Allied fleet invaded Japanese territory for the first time, and the Japanese fleet was soundly defeated. The Allied planes hardly managed to lay a glove on the Japanese.
#2 The Japanese diplomat Kase Toshikazu was a trusted friend of the captain, and he told him the toasts were to the official version....
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#1 On October 5, 2016, a flight attendant on a South Korean airline evacuated all the passengers and crew members after a man's new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone began smoking. The device had been exchanged two weeks before the flight.
#2 The most disturbing part of this is that Klering's phone caught fire on Tuesday, one day before the Southwest flight, and Samsung knew...
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#1 The history of Albania, a landlocked country in the Balkans, is a complicated tale of extreme interest. The claims of Greek, Bulgarian, and Serb in the Balkan peninsula are well known, but it has been the fashion always to ignore the rights and claims of the oldest inhabitant of the land, the Albanian.
#2 The ancestors of the modern Servians poured into the peninsula...
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#1 The French had fought a short but bloody war with the Japanese in September 1940, before the Japanese ultimatum. The French ambassador in Washington wired Catroux that his request for 120 modern fighter planes had been turned down by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, because the United States did not believe it could enter into conflict with Japan.
#2 The French...
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#1 The American military leaders were debating what should come next after the capture of the Mariana Islands in 1944. Should American forces attack Luzon, the largest Philippine island, or invade Formosa. They decided to invade Luzon.
#2 The American military had grown by leaps and bounds in just three years, and was now a world-striding giant wielding astonishing...
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#1 The secret war was a game designed by an enterprising officer to teach new pilots about the Vietnam War. It was modeled after Monopoly, with the first moves covering such dull stuff as aircraft maintenance, radio procedures, and the Rules of Engagement. The briefing officer took the players through the gradual process of developing into an old head instead of acquiring...
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#1 The British East India Company, a trading company, invaded and destroyed the Indian civilization of which Durant was so astonished and outraged. They were carelessly destructive of art and greedy for gain.
#2 The British East India Company subjugated a vast land through the power of their artillery and the cynicism of their amorality. They displaced nawabs and maharajas...
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#1 The Army Nurse Corps was administered by Captain Maude Davison, a career officer and the chief nurse. The work was relatively easy and uncomplicated, and the women spent their days chatting about the future.
#2 On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched a surprise attack on the United States. The war was already on its way to the...
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#1 To understand Claire Chennault, you must trace his roots to the backwoods of northeast Louisiana. His father, John, was a cotton farmer who had built the house with his own hands in 1905 when Claire was a boy. Claire wanted to escape from his seemingly inevitable fate as a cotton farmer like his father.
#2 In 1910, Chennault attended the Fifth Annual Louisiana State...
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#1 I began working with Tony, and my life changed dramatically. I was no longer behind the camera, but struggling to articulate my own story. I had too many memories to remember, and I spent almost all of my waking hours silently reliving them.
#2 Tony was the host of CNN's Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. He was a friend and mentor to many of the show's crew members, and his death...
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#1 The North Korea of Kim Jong Il's era was very different from the North Korea of the 1953–1994 period. It was a National Stalinist regime, and it survived all outside challenges. It was a time when the Kim family regime grew and matured.
#2 Kim Il Sung, the supreme leader of North Korea, was a native of Pyongyang, which in late August 1945 became the headquarters...
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#1 The baby girl, Tsuneno, was born in 1804. She had everything she needed for the first few months of her life. Her family had old clothes and rags to piece together for diapers, so she could be changed whenever she was wet.
#2 Tsuneno's family were investors and planners. They had to be, since even substantial fortunes could be lost quickly through bad harvests...
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#1 The first people to live in Korea lived off of salmon, elk, and hake, as well as rice and wheat raised on farms. They were lactose intolerant, so they didn't milk any of the animals they hunted.
#2 The Mumun period in Korea was from 850 to 300 BCE, and it was during this time that the Korean states of China were at war until the Qin Dynasty took over. The Chinese...
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#1 Korea is a peninsula that shares its northern border with China. It was not until 1945 that Korea was split into two separate states, North Korea and South Korea, run by two separate governments.
#2 The Japanese occupation of Korea was extremely brutal, and the country was ready for peace by 1945. However, the end of the war would not set them up for peace; in less...
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#1 The Great Hall of the People, which is the largest auditorium in the building, was built in 1959 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. It is a grand, intimidating structure heavily inspired by Soviet architecture.
#2 Mao was a Stalinist who imposed a harsh communist regime on China in 1949. He was a faithful follower of his master in Moscow, and for good...
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#1 I met Kaname Harada, who was 93 years old and still active, at his private kindergarten in Nagano prefecture. He was one of the few aviators who experienced the war from the beginning to the end, and he was the only surviving member who flew during the USS Panay incident near Nanking in 1937.
#2 Kaname Harada was born in 1916. He was the eldest of three children....
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#1 On January 23, 1959, the group of ten skiers spent the day at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. They were all members of the UPI Sports Club and were frantically packing their rucksacks and getting their equipment ready. They were anticipating a fun trip to Mount Otorten, but their plans were suddenly thrown into disarray when Igor Dyatlov was killed in...
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