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EARLY EPISODE: The Mogami, Japan's Most Unlucky Warship That Refused to Die

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Japan creates a death trap that becomes so unlucky it becomes known throughout the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII

Sources:

David Lippman. Mogami: Japan's Luckless Cruiser

http://combinedfleet.com/ships/mogami

David Brown. Warship Losses of WWII

Paul Dull. The Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Comments

I transited through CDG a week ago for the first time. While on my second gate transfer bus, I was watching outside where a vehicle was pulling a train of 5 baggage crates when the last one just fell right off and got left behind on the road. So if you want to know how luggage can get left behind/broken...

Randy

Regarding superstition as an alternative to strong institutions: my understanding is that “Chinese Traditional Medicine” is as systematized as it is because Mao wanted to save money on healthcare. (Also hence why China still doesn’t have socialized healthcare.)

Elsie Hupp


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