Context: https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/the-1800s-when-americans-drank-whiskey-like-it-was

A number of factors led to an explosion of alcohol consumption in the early 1800s. First, the British halted their participation in the American molasses/rum trade, objecting to its connections with slavery, while the federal government also began to tax rum in the 1790s. At the same time, the settlement of the so-called “corn belt” in the Midwest created large new supplies of corn, which was cheaper and more profitable to convert into whiskey than it was to transport great distances without spoiling. Thus, as Rorabaugh notes: “Western farmers could make no profit shipping corn overland to eastern markets, so they distilled corn into ‘liquid assets.’ By the 1820s, whiskey sold for twenty-five cents a gallon, making it cheaper than beer, wine, coffee, tea, or milk.”

In short, whiskey was extremely cheap and extremely available, and American consumption soared as a result. As Okrent describes in Last Call, the number of distilleries in the nation increased fivefold, to 14,000 in between 1790 and 1810. He writes that “in cities it was widely understood that common workers would fail to come to work on Mondays, staying home to wrestle with the echoes and aftershocks of a weekend binge. By 1830, the tolling of a town bell at 11 a.m. and again at 4 p.m. marked ‘grog time.’”

Even the English, no slouches in terms of consumption themselves (#25 in the world today, and 26 percent higher than the U.S.), noticed how sloppy their American cousins were getting. In English traveler Frederick Marryat’s A Diary in America, published in 1837, the writer remarks that the Americans seemingly drank for every conceivable occasion:

“I am sure the Americans can fix nothing without a drink. If you meet, you drink; if you part, you drink; if you make acquaintance, you drink; if you close a bargain you drink; they quarrel in their drink, and they make it up with a drink. They drink because it is hot; they drink because it is cold. If successful in elections, they drink and rejoice; if not, they drink and swear; they begin to drink early in the morning, they leave off late at night; they commence it early in life, and they continue it, until they soon drop into the grave.” – Frederick Marryat

By 1830, alcohol consumption reached its peak at a truly outlandish 7 gallons of ethanol a year per capita. Via Okrent:

“Staggering” is the appropriate word for the consequences of this sort of drinking. In modern terms, those seven gallons are the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week—nearly 90 bottles a year for every adult in the nation, even with abstainers (and there were millions of them) factored in. Once again figuring per capita, multiply the amount Americans drink today by three and you’ll have an idea of what much of the nineteenth century was like.

As if it really needs saying, 7 gallons of ethanol per year, per capita, is an insane number. Consider this: My significant other and I both drink alcohol. If we were drinking at 1830 levels, we would be plowing through roughly 3.4 standard, 750 ml bottles of Jim Beam White Label Bourbon per week, in a single household. Our livers would be sending us every conceivable manner of distress signal, assuming they didn’t immediately shut down.

So, how much do Americans drink now, in the modern world? Well, the best figure for the current American alcohol consumption rate seems to be roughly 2.42 gallons of ethanol per year, per capita—still a healthy figure, but nearly three times less per capita than in 1830.

At this point, you may be thinking something along the lines of “But does anywhere in the world drink as heavily as Americans did in 1830?” And it sure sounds like the answer is no—not even close, in fact. Today, the highest per capita alcohol consumption in the world belongs to the Eastern European nation of Belarus, which consumes roughly 4.62 gallons of ethanol per year, per capita. This is all to say the following: Even the booziest place on Earth in 2018 drinks at a rate that is only 66 percent as boisterous as Americans were doing in 1830.

Nils Bucht was one of the so-called "Kiruna Swedes" - a group of about 1000 people who during the 1920s- and 30s emigrated to the Soviet Union seeking better fortunes as the situation in Sweden at the time was dire, especially in the north.

Many, like mr Bucht, met gruesome ends at the hands of the Soviet secret police whilst a few were able to return to Sweden, often as shells of their former selves - case in point being Bucht's childhood friend Otto Högberg, who after escaping the USSR and returning to Sweden refused to greet people at the door and tried to hide at the corner of rooms due to paranoia about being abducted by Soviet agents or local communists.

What, if any, culpability the Swedish Communist Party, todays Left Party, holds in the fate of the Kiruna Swedes is a matter of debate and the issue has been used as a wedge against the party in modern political discourse.

Context: The Capture of Rome in WW2, the first Axis capital to fall, was overshadowed by the D-Day invasion of France two days later, to the disappointment of the publicity hungry General Mark Clark.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course

The Reverse Course (逆コース, gyaku kōsu) is the name commonly given to a shift in the policies of the U.S. government and the U.S.-led Allied occupation of Japan as they sought to reform and rebuild Japan after World War II.^\1]) The Reverse Course began in 1947, at a time of rising Cold War tensions.^\1]) As a result of the Reverse Course, the emphasis of occupation policy shifted from the demilitarization and democratization of Japan to economic reconstruction and remilitarization of Japan in support of U.S. Cold War objectives in Asia.^\1]) This involved relaxing and in some cases even partially undoing earlier reforms the occupation had enacted in 1945 and 1946.^\1]) As a U.S. Department of State official history puts it, "this 'Reverse Course' ... focused on strengthening, not punishing, what would become a key Cold War ally."^\2])

Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers on August 15, 1945, and officially exchanged instruments of surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, by which time thousands of Allied occupation forces had already begun landing on Japanese soil. The occupation was commanded by American general Douglas MacArthur, whose office was designated the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers (SCAP).^\3]) In the initial phase of the occupation, from 1945 to 1946, SCAP had pursued an ambitious program of social and political reform, designed to ensure that Japan would never again be a threat to world peace.^\3]) Among other reforms, SCAP worked with Japanese leaders to disband the Japanese military, purge wartime leaders from government posts), and break up the powerful zaibatsu industrial conglomerates that had supported Japan's drive for empire in Asia.^\3]) In addition, SCAP instituted a sweeping land reform that made tenant farmers the new owners of the lands they had previously rented, in a blow against a previously powerful landlord class that had supported the wartime regime, and sought to unravel the wartime Japanese police state by breaking up the national police force into small American-style police forces controlled at the local level.^\3]) SCAP also sought to empower previously marginalized groups that it believed would have a moderating effect on future militarism, legalizing the Communist and Socialist parties, encouraging the formation of labor unions, and extending the right to vote to women. The crowning achievement of the first phase of the occupation was the promulgation at SCAP's behest in 1947 of a new Constitution of Japan.^\1]) Most famously, Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution explicitly disavows war as an instrument of state policy and promises that Japan will never maintain a military.^\1])

At the same time, however, Cold War tensions were already ramping up in Europe, where the Soviet occupation of Eastern European countries led Winston Churchill to give his 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, as well as in Asia, where the tide was turning in favor of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War.^\1]) These shifts in the geo-political environment led to a profound shift in U.S. government and Allied occupation thinking about Japan, and rather than focusing on punishing and weakening Japan for its wartime transgressions, the focus shifted to rebuilding and strengthening Japan as a potential ally in the emerging global Cold War. Meanwhile on the Japanese domestic front, rampant inflation, continuing hunger and poverty, and the rapid expansion of leftist parties and labor unions led occupation authorities to fear that Japan was ripe for communist exploitation or even a communist revolution and to believe that conservative and anti-communist forces in Japan needed to be strengthened. An early sign of the shift in SCAP's thinking came in January 1947 when MacArthur announced that he would not permit a massive, nationwide general strike) that labor unions had scheduled for February 1.^\1]) Thereafter, the broader shift in occupation policies became more and more apparent.^\1])

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Context: On July 7, 1999, 4 masked gunmen robbed an American Savings Bank in Honolulu, Hawaii, stealing over $100,000.

No one was injured during the heist and getaway, despite a gunfight occurring.

In their getaway, the suspects abandoned their vehicle, leaving behind a supermarket discount card used by the police to track down and arrest all 4 suspects

Context: During their studies at a school in California, Hawaiian Princes David Kawānanakoa, Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, and Edward Keliʻiahonui showcased the sport of surfing to the local population for the first time in July 1885, on massive boards made from local redwood.

Context: Maui is a legendary mythological figure central to the history of most Polynesian countries, like New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga and Hawaii when it was an independent nation.

He was a demigod with many amazing feats such as pulling up islands from the sea, lassoing the sun to slow down the day, bringing knowledge fire to the people, and much more. His death was also pretty wild.

One of the main Islands of Hawaii is named after Maui, and the popular Disney animated film, sequel and live action remake feature the demigod trickster, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo