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February 28
It started with a woman selling cigarettes. February 27, 1947: Lin Jian-Mai was peddling black market cigarettes at a portable stand on Taping Road in Taipei, Taiwan (then Formosa), when she was caught and arrested by anti-smuggling police from the “Kuomintang” (Chaing Kai-Shek’s Nationalist Chinese government). During the arrest she yelled [...] February 27
A common theme in decolonization. When Western powers depart from their former colonies, old claims over the newly-independent territory resurface, and neighboring powers assert that the new nation was a [...] Last Saturday in February In the category of “Holidays We Are Not Making Up” today is Sword Swallower’s Day. Sword Swallowers’ Association International (SSAI) recognizes “those who can swallow a non-retractible sold steel blade at least two centimeters wide and 38 centimetres long.” Sword swallowing is not fake or a ‘trick,’ and it’s very dangerous. We [...] |
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