She knows that’s its about sex drugs an rock and roll. But that’s the funny thing, because they’re the things people tell us to avoid. Our guilty pleasures.

This might also be a reference to the classic Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, in which one of the characters (the girl who robs the restaurant with Tim Roth) is called “Honey Bunny”.

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Vladimir Putin doesn’t see it this way.

According to Putin:

As far as the events in Ukraine are concerned, to me they don’t look like a revolution, but rather like ‘pogrom’. However strange this might seem, in my view it has little to do with Ukrainian-EU relations"

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, with Viktor Yanukovych, the President of the Ukraine.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. The OSCE has its origins in the 1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control and the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press and fair elections.

As the holder of the Chairmanship, Ukraine’s responsibilities include:

• co-ordination of the work of OSCE institutions;
• representing the Organization;
• supervising activities related to conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.

Roosevelt is not sugarcoating the damage. The death toll was still being calculated, and the exact figure would end up being 2,403 Americans killed.

According to Theodore McNelly, Editor of Sources in Modern East Asian History and Politics, “this sentence is said to have been inserted on the personal request of the Emperor”.

The Japanese government had, at the outbreak of World War II in Europe, held a position of non-involvement, but were also adamant in their desire to maintain and expand Japanese control over East Asia.

A commitment to non-involvement began to erode once the U.S. embargoed crucial military resources (steel, scrap iron and aviation fuel) after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina in September 1940. By the following year, Japan felt that they could not get the U.S. economic embargo lifted while still expanding their control over the Pacific territory, thus the Japanese army began planning the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies.

What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot?"

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As summarized here:

The United States did recover—and quicker than Yamamoto could have imagined. After only
six months, the U.S. carrier fleet dealt a decisive blow to Yamamoto’s navy in June 1942 at the
Battle of Midway, sinking four Japanese aircraft carriers. After this U.S. victory came the start of
the U.S. island-hopping campaign and the eventual defeat of the Japanese Empire in August 1945.

The US would raise or salvage all but two of the 19 damaged ships within two years of the attack.