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When President McKinley was shot in 1901, the best surgeon around was kneedeep in a complex operation. When told he was needed elsewhere, he replied that he could not leave, not even for the President. Even after he was told who his new patient was, he remained put and finished his work.
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Japanese listening to the recorded radio broadcast of Emperor Hirohito announcing the surrender of Japan, August 1945
They had never heard his voice.
Think about that. An emperor—descended, according to tradition, from the sun itself—existed more as a mythic construct than a human figure. And suddenly, on an August day when the world seemed to be cracking open at the seams, his voice came through tinny speakers and battered radios, distorted by static and ceremonial language so archaic that even many native Japanese struggled to parse it.
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In 1999, Philip Morris attempted to convince the government of the Czech Republic that smoking was highly beneficial to the country, as more people would die earlier as a result, thus letting the government save millions on pensions, hospitals, and housing for elderly citizens
