Where else would I learn about a corrupt hockey league, a faulty Communist aircraft, a horrific plane crash, and the tragic aftermath of a widow and her young children trying to put their life back together one balloon at a time?
Human Acts by Han Kang (Granta) The author of the well received The Vegetarian explores the tragic aftermath of a student uprising in 1980 South Korea.
The calamitous wars that convulsed the Italian peninsula for some four decades after the French invasion of 1494 were not, according to modern historians, the tragic aftermath of a lost world.
Yet again we are here dealing with the tragic aftermath of a wholly unnecessary and completely avoidable event that has had devastating effects on all those involved.
This toxic mix involving PTSD, extremism, the financial crisis and its tragic aftermath was a recurrent theme.
Climbing mountains is the business on which Zermatt's prosperity was founded - before the wacko English stopped by, locals sweated long hours in the fields and pastures - and the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 and its tragic aftermath gave Zermatt a rather grisly unique selling point and sent its fame soaring.
In the tragic aftermath of more drownings at a beach that is known for a treacherous undertow, the solution still seems so simple.
But to presume that the play Sunday night revived memories for Cordoba would be a mistake because, as he said last week after a practice session, thoughts of that fateful day in Pasadena, and its tragic aftermath as Escobar was shot and killed 10 days later outside a Medellin, Colombia discotheque, have never died for him.
What is it about this horrible disaster and the tragic aftermath -- we're on the brink of a nuclear meltdown, hello -- that is bringing out such stupid reactions?
Here are extracts:Condemning the attitude of people who refused to buy a poppy because they felt it glorified war, Colonel Jimmy Hughes, chairman of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, said this week that it symbolised the tragic aftermath of war and to that extent was in reality a symbol of peace.
