Word: kii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shino Point in Kii...
...Tokyo, Medium Kii Tsuchiya wrote: ''When I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, I read my destiny. I found it was my lot to die a sudden and unexpected death. I am old and do not wish to die in an automobile accident or be killed under falling debris. I want to die peacefully, at home.'' She did. She stepped into the family well...
...would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding with Lenin and working for the labor movement. After the Revolution he dedicated himself...
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