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1 day ago · A mass marriage of Han Chinese officers and officials to Manchu women was organized to balance the massive number of Han women who entered the Manchu court as courtesans, concubines, and wives. These couples were arranged by Prince Yoto and Hong Taiji in 1632 to promote harmony between the two ethnic groups.
4 days ago · Puyi (right) as Emperor of Manchukuo, with Chū Kudō. From 1935 to 1945, Kwantung Army senior staff officer Yoshioka Yasunori (吉岡安則)[135]was assigned to Puyi as Attaché to the Imperial Household in Manchukuo.
12 hours ago · Background At the time of the incident, Donald Trump was the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election. The shooting occurred two days before the July 15 start of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was the second attempt at violence toward Trump during one of his rallies; the first was in 2016, when a man attempted to disarm a security ...
4 days ago · The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 film following a Korean War veteran who is brainwashed before leaving Korea, causing him to hatch a plan to overthrow the United States government.
3 days ago · Director John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" is a seminal film in the conspiracy thriller genre. It stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury. The plot centers around a former Korean War POW who is brainwashed into becoming an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy.
6 days ago · After starring in director Jonathan Demme’s 2004 update of the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, Washington reteamed with Lee for the crime drama Inside Man (2006).
4 days ago · Today, it’s more than a little eerie to read Charles McCarry’s gripping and intricate 1995 political thriller, “ Shelley’s Heart .”. At the time the book first appeared, nearly 30 years ...
