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Well-Behaved Women

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos was once a simple girl with&nbsp;dreams of becoming&nbsp;a singer. Using her undeniable&nbsp;good looks and charm, she became a beauty queen&nbsp;and snagged a rising politician, Ferdinand Marcos, who later became the 10th president of the Philippine Islands. Her husband ruled the country from 1965 to 1986, making <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/imelda-marcos-21062601" target="_blank">Imelda its First Lady </a>for 20 years.During that time, she lived a lavish lifestyle while many Filipinos remained in poverty. She accumulated a massive amount of personal wealth. Additionally, she owned <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/bizarre-stuff-that-dictators-collected/mike-rothschild" target="_blank">thousands of pairs of designer shoes</a>; hoarded artwork and jewelry; and&nbsp;collected European aristocrats and Hollywood actors as friends, all while allegedly transferring millions of dollars into offshore accounts under the alias “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/08/22/data-show-how-marcos-reached-hidden-money/2fbc7852-4bfb-4417-af67-2a285f5da1b7/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.d9ad23aaae93" target="_blank">Jane Ryan</a>.”The Filipino people finally ousted Marcos in 1986, which led to the couple's&nbsp;exile in Honolulu, HI. Ferdinand died soon after, leaving Imelda to deal with the backlash. Despite having to go on trial for offenses committed under her husband’s regime, Imelda and her family still have&nbsp;numerous supporters holding them in high esteem.She continues to charm her way back into the national spotlight of the Philippines through her children’s political endeavors. To this day, she remains known&nbsp;as the &quot;Iron Butterfly.&quot;

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Imelda Marcos Is The International Thief You've Never Heard Of

Genevieve Ortilla

Lists about the WWII genocide, also called the Shoah, in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany systematically murdered some 11 million people, including Poles, homosexuals, the disabled, and approximately 6 million European Jews.

The Holocaust

Author, activist, and Holocaust survivor Eliezer &quot;Elie&quot; Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928. The very early life of Elie Wiesel was relatively unremarkable -&nbsp;he was part of an average Jewish family consisting of his mother, father, and three sisters. In 1944, their lives changed when they were shipped to the&nbsp;Auschwitz concentration camp in&nbsp;Poland. The young man's experience during the Holocaust defined his life going forward, as is evidenced in Elie Wiesel's book Night, which, in barely more than&nbsp;100 pages, rattled the world.&nbsp;Night by Elie Wiesel is part of a trilogy of books charting the author's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/what-happened-after-concentration-camps-were-liberated/anna-lindwasser" target="_blank">journey</a> from the darkness of the Holocaust to the light of post-war peace and his career as a writer, academic, and Nobel Laureate. The series <a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/night/" target="_blank">follows the Jewish tradition</a> of beginning the day at nightfall, hence Night being the first volume. The other books in the series are Dawn and Day, though Night is most famous, noted for its harrowing&nbsp;chronicle&nbsp;of the life of a prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and its nihilistic rejection of God in the face of such <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/everyday-life-in-concentration-camps/philgibbons" target="_blank">unfathomable cruelty</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Night provides an in-depth expression of Elie Wiesel’s personal battles with immense guilt and the ugliness of humanity. Most of his life after surviving the Holocaust was devoted to combating indifference, intolerance, and injustice. He became an accomplished writer, professor, and overall champion for human rights.

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