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kamikaze

The 'divine wind' was the typhoon that wrecked Kublai Khan's invasion fleet in 1281; in 1944 Japan named its suicide air units after it, and English took the word in 1945. From there it spread to nearly every language, often for any reckless or suicidal attacker.

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