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#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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#1 I was on my first search for matsutake in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. I had found the Forest Service's big camp for mushroom pickers, but all the pickers were out foraging. I decided to look for mushrooms myself while I waited for their return.
#2 In 1908 and 1909, two railroad entrepreneurs raced to build track along Oregon's Deschutes River. The goal of each was...