Kaze to Ki no Uta ('The Poem of Wind and Trees') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in two shōjo manga (girls' manga) magazines: Shūkan Shōjo Comic from 1976 to 1980, and Petit Flower from 1981 to 1984. One of the earliest works in the shōnen-ai (male–male romance) genre, Kaze to Ki no Uta follows the tragic romance between two students at an all-boys boarding school in France during the late 19th century. The series was developed and published amid a significant transitional period for shōjo manga, as the medium shifted from an audience composed primarily of children to an audience of adolescents and young adults. It attracted controversy for its mature themes of sadomasochism, incest, and rape, but nevertheless achieved significant critical and commercial success, winning the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo category. Kaze to Ki no Uta is regarded as a pioneering work of shōnen-ai, and is credited by critics with widely popularizing the genre.

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1898:

The Southern Cross Expedition (dogsled team pictured), the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departed London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Expedition

1989:

Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their desire for independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

2010:

A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila, holding its occupants hostage for nearly eleven hours and killing eight of them before being killed by police himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_hostage_crisis

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bewildering: 1. Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available. 2. gerund of bewilder: bewilderment. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bewildering

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