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  • Remains of Life

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    de Wu Wu He ...
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    On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery, ... Leer más

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  • Lost on Planet China

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  • Married to Bhutan

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  • Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?

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