Operation Plunder

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Blaming foreign oppressors in the west as the cause of famine, floods and poverty, the Boxer Rebellion was a secret movement to attack foreigners and Christian converts during China’s Qing Dynasty in 1899.

Beginning in the 1890s, two rival Chinese gangs known as tongs fought in an ongoing bloodfest in New York’s Chinatown, vying for control of the opium trade, illegal gambling and prostitution.

Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the propensity for strong genes to propagate through evolution and weak genes to die, has been applied unnaturally to society in the form of the eugenics movement and gene-editing technologies.

After eight years of Revolutionary War, the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 recognizing the United States as an independent nation. John Adams, Ben Franklin, and John Jay were key American signatories of the treaty.

In 1953, Swanson Foods had a 260-ton Turkey surplus after Thanksgiving, prompting the invention of the TV Dinner. The concept proved popular, with 10 million trays sold in the first year.

After racial skepticism prohibited African Americans from flying in the US military, the Tuskegee Airmen became decorated heroes against Nazi forces.

Typhus is a filth disease that spreads through rats, lice and poor sanitation. In addition to fever, rash and nausea, typhus victims experience delirium, stupor and sensitivity to light. Today, typhus prevails in developing countries with inadequate sanitation.