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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I had been on three flights before boarding the bus to Erzurum: Paris—Istanbul, Istanbul—Ankara, and finally Ankara—Erzurum. I was comfortably strapped in my seat when I looked down and watched as the landscapes, cities, and villages raced by. I wanted to get out and walk.
#2 I set out from Istanbul on the first leg of this journey in April 1999. I was excited...
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#1 I wanted to travel by train from London to Tokyo. I found passengers who were willing to travel with me. Duffill was one of them. He was old and his clothes were far too big for him, but he had many oddly shaped parcels wrapped in string and brown paper.
#2 The train was speeding through Clapham. I had left England behind. The sky was old. Schoolboys in dark blue...
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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 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 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 North Korea's history explains how the country has been able to remain such a durable regime.
#2 The Korean Peninsula's history starts in the Paleolithic era, with the legendary Gojoseon kingdom established in 2333 BCE. In 1905, Korea became a protectorate of Japan, and in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty marked the annexation of the Korean empire and the beginning of...
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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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#1 When the 'Big Three'-Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin-met at Yalta for the Argonaut Conference from 4 to 11 February 1945, the defeat of Nazi Germany was plainly imminent. American, British, Canadian, and French armies were advancing on Germany's western border and had defeated the Ardennes counteroffensive.
#2 The Agreement Regarding Entry...
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#1 I had been traveling across Southeast Asia with a man who was soon to become my husband. We were trying to get married, but neither of us wanted to. The idea of marriage terrified us both after our bad divorces.
#2 Felipe and I had a pact never to marry, as we knew that every relationship has a hidden explosive mixture of problems. We were very content together, until...
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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 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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