There once sailed a ship through a merciless gale,

No harbour ahead and no wind in her sail,

The men drew their straws in the lantern light pale,

To see who’d feed the crew.

Soon came the turn of the cabin boy thin,

He drew the short straw with a trembling chin,

He begged them for mercy, but hunger would win,

Then judgment came in port.

*** The year is 1884. A Royal Navy ship sinks on the high seas. Three sailors and the cabin boy survive in a lifeboat. There is no land in sight and the men are exhausted. After a week, the crew members agree to draw straws to decide which of them is to be killed and eaten by the rest. The cabin boy draws the short straw but refuses to accept his fate. Regardless, the crew members kill and eat him against his will. Days later, the lifeboat is found and brought to land. The authorities hear of the tale, and the sailors are brought before a court.

From the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s through the 2000s, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided crucial sanctuary, financial backing, and strategic training to the Taliban movement within its border regions.

There once sailed a ship through a merciless gale,

No harbour ahead and no wind in her sail,

The men drew their straws in the lantern light pale,

To see who’d feed the crew.

Soon came the turn of the cabin boy thin,

He drew the short straw with a trembling chin,

He begged them for mercy, but hunger would win,

Then judgment came in port.

*** The year is 1884. A Royal Navy ship sinks on the high seas. Three sailors and the cabin boy survive in a lifeboat. There is no land in sight and the men are exhausted. After a week, the crew members agree to draw straws to decide which of them is to be killed and eaten by the rest. The cabin boy draws the short straw but refuses to accept his fate. Regardless, the crew members kill and eat him against his will. Days later, the lifeboat is found and brought to land. The authorities hear of the tale, and the sailors are brought before a court.

Mexico has significantly expanded trade and investment ties with China over the past decade, particularly in manufacturing, electronics, EVs, and industrial supply chains. Under Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico has increasingly restricted Chinese imports and investment in strategic sectors, promoted domestic manufacturing over Chinese goods, and aligned more closely with United States industrial and trade policy.

Somalian president Hassan Skeikh Mohamud has pursued several policies aiming at centralising the authority in Mogadishu. Policies included requiring direct suffrage over clan-based system, allowed the president to appoint the prime minister without parliamentary approval, made the president electable by the parliament rather than the public, and enhanced military powers in response to defecting clan networks.

The Pop-culturalisation of Mormonism refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mormon identity becoming increasingly commercialised through mainstream entertainment (e.g. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the commercialisation of distinctly Utah / Mormon aesthetics).

From the late 1980s through the 2000s, figure skating shifted from prioritizing aesthetic appeal, musical interpretation and choreographic artistry toward maximizing athletic difficulty (e.g. preforming jumps, number of rotations).