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Adventure in Old Iraq

"All day we had ridden across a flat plain, and the dust rose from under the horses' hooves and choked us. The rains had failed, as they so often did, and the plants that had…

The Coal Mining Life

Men making money the old-fashioned way: in a coal mine 500 feet deep.https://www.gq.com/story/coal-mines-underground-economy?printable=true

War in Chechnya

A Russian soldier's chilling diary of executions, torture, revenge and despair during 20 tours of duty.https://thevelvetrocket.com/2010/11/17/the-war-in-chechnya-diary-of-a-killer/

Dickens in America

From Belleville, we went on, through the same desolate kind of waste, and constantly attended, without the interval of a moment, by the same music; until, at three o’clock in the afternoon, we halted once…

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The song made millions, just not for the Zulu man who wrote it. http://reprints.longform.org/in-the-jungle

Death in the Watchtower

The unsolved mystery of an American soldier dying far from home.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-soldier-who-died-in-the-watchtower

Lost in the Valley of Death

Hindu charlatans and naive Americans on the treacherous path to enlightenment.https://www.outsideonline.com/2373446/justin-alexander-shetler-missing-parvati-valley

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