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"When I got to the inside doors, which is about 30 feet inside the building, I saw these big double doors, and people were stacked like cordwood. They were clear up to the top. They just kept diving out on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it wasn't dead people, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I went in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the stack, and drag them out..."
(28 May 1977)
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The Eyes Have It
Sunday 15th of February 2004
21 years, 11 months and 12 days ago
A procession of chinese men carrying a dopesmoking magician. The preparation of this activity had been going along for several days. First a complex of wooden floors and tents had been built, with various kinds of altars, stages and lots of tables. It continued with the burning of a huge stack of paper one day all day long. The procession lasted only for about half an hour as the magician was carried along Bukit Timah Road in Singapore, Singapore21 years, 11 months and 12 days ago
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