The barques were loaded. Food, tools and supplies to endure several years beyond the frontiers of the known world. Five thousand crew and six thousand children – reputedly all virgins, the purest ...

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Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was was executed on Friday, at the Tokyo Detention House in secrecy with ...