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The Kingpin of Shanghai
From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China. • By Morgan W.R. Dunn • 26 August 2021
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Hard to Swallow
When it came to protests, America’s lower classes at the turn of the century had a bevy of galling circumstances to c...
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To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks With Facebook
The earliest known version of the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" was written by the English philosophe...
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Capital, Punished
Located 350 km (217 miles) southeast of Puerto Rico, the British island of Montserrat is sometimes called 'The Emeral...
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The Traveler and His Baggage
In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.