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September 07, 2005
Inflation calculator
Here's a handy inflation calculator ... from Steven Morgan Friedman ...
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August 16, 2005
The Manila Massacre - February 1945
The Belmont Club has an untitled article remembering the "Manila Massacre" that took place in February, 1945. Japanese troops, as they retreated from Manila ... massacred 100,000 people ...
The 100,000 civilians who died in the largest urban battle of the Pacific War -- more than at Hiroshima -- are not remembered in beautiful candles floating down darkened rivers or in flights of doves soaring into the blue sky; there is no anti-American significance to their deaths.
Years ago, my mother-in-law told me a story about how when she was a teenager in Malaysia, she had to cut her hair short and try to look like a boy ... hide in closets and the jungle ... so she would not be raped by the Japanese soldiers who had invaded Malaysia (1941-1945) ...
Research Alert: Cornell has a paper with lots of footnotes, by Cheah Boon Kheng, "The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-1945: Ibrahim Yaacob and the Struggle for Indonesia Raya" (pdf, 37 pages) 
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