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Frank Sinatra was buriedwith his favorite candy: Tootsie Rolls, according to "Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous." From 1942–45, the U.S. military included these chewy candies in the rations for World War II troops. Today, 64 million Tootsie Rollsare made ...
“Officers are removed, or de-screened, from promotion and selection status depending on the decision of the board members after they have reviewed any newly introduced, adverse information in the officer’s official record,” she said. “The Navy reviews the records and status...
The Japanese had started forging ties with White Army emigres living in Manchuria in northeast China in the 1920s. When in 1931 the Kwantung Army occupied that region, a significant part of its Russian inhabitants supported the Japanese in the fight against the Chinese troops. Archive photo A ...
John Knight, a Western cultural anthropologist, wrote this book regarding the use of free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques as tourism attractions in Japan. These attractions are described as "wild monkey parks" (yaen koen). In fact, there are 41 monkey parks in Japan. Millions of tourists...
Nonetheless, Dean - who is pro-gun, pro-death penalty, far more economically conservative than Kucinich, and argues for keeping US troops in Iraq - beat him by 2 to 1. Was this because Dean was believed to be more electable? Unlikely. The Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group,...
Northern Cyprus has been under Turkish occupation since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded the top third of the island in response to a Greek-backed military coup. A buffer zone was built between the two which in turned caused one of the most touristy and beautiful parts of the Cypriotic coast...
The 2003 overthrow of Saddam and the death of Uday in a gunfight with U.S. troops in Mosul in July that year put an end to the deal. But none of this slowed Nasri’s business — in fact, it began to thrive like never before. ...
Like many others, Zenzaburo decided to diversify into bold, new ventures that were gaining in popularity at the time in post-imperial Japan. Right away, he had his eyes set on only one thing: building a camera. An unorthodox choice in the postwar Japanese economy for sure, but Yoshino had...
This dispatch is to be considered a war warning X Negotiations with Japan looking toward the stabilization of conditions in the Pacific have ceased and an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days X The number and equipment of Japanese troops and the organization of naval ta...