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The vaccine was pretty clearly responsible. That made national news again, as did cases of people who’d been vaccinated and become ill for reasons having nothing to do with the vaccine. The vaccine program went from controversial to unpopular to, on December 16, suspended. And the pandemic never came. The new strain of swine flu simply vanished. No one knew why.
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
The Ming had driven the Mongols out, but could not erase the threat that they posed. They were forced to devote more and more resources to their northern defence, a geostrategic burden whose visible part was the drive to complete the so-called Great Wall.
After Tamerlane
John Darwin
the honest reality of being a kid on the playground (versus what grown-ups told you). Let’s be real, every kid alive knew those cheesy videos on what to say to a bully didn’t work.
I Now Know Why My Mom Hated “The Simpsons”
A. C. Sterling
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