The fruit took on cult status in China after Mao gifted his workers a box of mangoes sent from Pakistan.
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The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class
“Apparently, Mao didn’t like fruit. It was an easy re-gift.”
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A Mystery Wrapped in an Engima, Then Shoved Under the Desk
Waste paper baskets: deeply symbolic, paradoxical items. Who knew?
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The Existential Conundrum That Is the American Waste Paper Basket
“Until I read Paradox, I had not considered the possibility that waste paper baskets could be imbued with paradox, but Legrand has convinced me.”
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How One Magazine Shaped Investigative Journalism in America
The following story comes recommended by Ben Marks, senior editor for Collectors Weekly: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s most recent history, The Bully Pulpit, chronicles the intertwined lives of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, often in excruciating detail, from Roosevelt’s struggles with the bosses of his Republican party to the fungal infections that plagued Taft’s groin. […]