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...beautiful cities in Europe; it's also one of the liveliest, and the best way to see it is through its panoply of specialized markets. On Wednesdays and Fridays there's a tiny farmers' market for foie gras and poultry. On Saturdays, it's booksellers, organic foods and a flea market; on Sundays, a huge traditional market for food, flowers, clothing and housewares...
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...sailors loaded two of the boats inside the van and secured the third to the roof before taking off for the regatta, leaving what resembled a flea market in their wake...
...fleas scattered over Hunan by Japanese warplanes were perhaps the world's most pampered vermin, raised by the imperial army's Epidemic Prevention and Water-Supply Unit, better known as Unit 731. Today the ruins of its headquarters, located outside the Manchurian city of Harbin, stand next to a village schoolyard. Chatter from the nearby basketball court wafts past an unpainted wooden shed with a shabby metal roof that covers 96 cement pits, each a meter square. Here, 60 years ago, Japanese doctors infected yellow rats with the plague and dropped them into flea-filled oil drums. Workers then loaded...
...guerrilla fights the war of the flea," wrote Robert Taber in his 1965 textbook on (and for) guerilla warfare. "And his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with." Not only that, the guerrillas take shelter in the civilian population, knowing that any "collateral damage" incidents will potentially alienate that civilian population from the guerrillas' enemies...