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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 My father, who was a big man, worked at an ice plant. He was drafted into World War II but never served because the doctor from our town wrote the draft board to get him out of going because the town needed ice.
#2 My father, Clifton Rose Jenkins, was a racist. He had a drinking problem, and he liked his alcohol. He was also the owner of the ice plant where...
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#1 I had previously been asked to enter caves with the aim of bringing both the dead and the living to the surface, so I understood just how unpredictable the work in Thailand could be. I had heard the terrain was challenging, and I was excited.
#2 I had always loved caving and was obsessed with the idea of cave diving. I was able to overcome the obstacles in and out...
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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 The name China was adopted by Westerners and given new meanings which were then transmitted back to East Asia. In European minds, China became an ancient, independent, continuous state occupying a defined portion of continental East Asia.
#2 The idea of a pre-eminent China traveled from Europe to East and Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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#1 I came to Fuling on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996. The city was small, and there was only one other foreigner in town.
#2 The Fuling group, which was the biggest of the Long March groups, had walked more than a thousand miles. They had been sponsored by Magnificent Sound cigarettes, and they had run...
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#1 My mother told me many stories from my childhood years later, and as I grew older, I realized that she had been the most outgoing and bravest girl in her town. She was always called a pretty girl. She had many friends, but she never wanted to be with boys.
#2 I met a military man, and he and I met every night following my performances for many months. The man told...
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Book Preview: #1 On Feb. 25, 1986, President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was sworn in as the 11th President of the Philippines, in defiance of President Ferdinand Marcos, who had held a similar ceremony in Malacañang. She promised to restore unity, genuine reconciliation, and democratic space. Instead, she allowed a repetition of a strongman rule and an era of hatred, vengeance, and...
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