1915

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1918

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Mexican revolution

Chinese RevolutionItalian-Ottoman war

Balkan wars

Mount Lebanon famineWorld War I

Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians

Kyrgyz revolt against Russia

Soviet revolution

Avian fluSpanish flu

famine in Russia

Chinese civil warfamine in northern China

Japanese Manchurian War

Soviet Union vs. Ukraine

famine in Ukraine, other parts of Russia, Kazakhstan and Caucasus area

Mao’s Long March

Italy’s invasion of EthiopiaStalin’s purgesSpanish civil war

Japanese invasion of China

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G A R L A N D PR I C E

“‘He went like that,’ Spade said, ‘like a fist when you open your hand.’”—Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

Garland Preiss Anglicizes his surname to “Price”

Garland Price joins San Francisco Police Department

Garland Price marries Ann Finnerty

Davy Abramowitz leaves Austria

Garland Price resigns from SFPD in wake of Vice Squad corruption probe

Adam Hayes begins running liquor from Canada to U.S.

1954

1955

1956

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1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

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1969

Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection

French-Algerian war

avian flu: Asian flu: killed over a million people worldwide

Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”

Three Years of Natural Disasters (China)

cholera called El TorSouth Africa vs. Africa National CongressGuatemalan civil war

Kurds vs. Iraq

Mozambique Frelimo vs. Portugal

USA-Vietnam warRhodesian Bush War

second India-Pakistan war over KashmirIndonesian civil war

Mao’s “Cultural Revolution”Colombian Conflict

Nigeria-Biafra civil war

Sahel droughtavian flu: Hong Kong flu

Otto Price dies in motor vehicle accident while serving at Naval Air Station, Atsugi.

Lily Abramowitz born.

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R I C H I E & D A N I E L A B R A M O W I T Z

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe—in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

—Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

1984

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1999

the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

Sendero Luminoso – Peru’s civil war

Nicaragua vs. Contras

Hissene Habre, Chad

Sri Lankan civil warSudanese civil war

famine in Ethiopia

Palestinian Intifada

Rwandan genocide

Pakistani Sunnis vs. ShiitesMaoist rebellion in Nepal

First Congo war

famine in North Korea

famine in Sudan Second Congo warEthiopia-Eritrea war

famine in ZimbabweKosovo: NATO vs. Serbia

Afghanistan civil warSomali civil warKashmiri Insurgency

Liberian civil warUganda vs. Lord’s Resistance Army

Gulf War ISierra Leone civil warRussia-Chechnya civil warArmenia-Azerbaijan war

The civil war in TajikstanYugoslav warsAlgerian civil war

Congo-Brazzaville civil warBurundian civil war

Lili Abramowitz enters Narcotics Anonymous.

Lester Moro publishes his first crime novel.

Lili Abramowitz meets Mike Martinez.

Lily Abramowitz marries Mike Martinez.

Walker Martinez born.

Davy Abramowitz suffering senile dementia. Sunshine Abramowitz granted Durable Power of Attorney.

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L I L Y M A R T I N E Z

“Everyone obsessed about the times they could have over again, and how they would do it differently....

Their obsession with the past, though, was quite selective because they were generally ignorant of

history and always failed to learn from it.”—Po Bronson, Bombardiers.

D E R E K M C C U L L O C H ’ S first graphic novel, Stagger Lee (with Shepherd Hendrix),

was nominated for the Eisner and Eagle awards and

received four Glyph Comics Awards, including Best

Writer and Story of the Year. His most recent graphic

novel, Gone to Amerikay (with Colleen Doran) was

selected for inclusion in The Best American Comics 2013.

His other books include Pug (with Greg Espinoza), and

the children’s book T. Runt! (with Jimmie Robinson)

A N T H O N Y P E R U Z Z O has been creating comic art since 2005. His work has been

published online and in print by Image Comics, Desperado,

Ape Entertainment, Black Box TV, and DC Comics. He

holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University

of Texas where he studied printmaking and drawing.

Currently he lives in Minnesota with his wife and dog.

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