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#1 The Prince of Wales was the first royal sex symbol of the modern age, and he was adored by Americans. He was the most glittering jewel in the royal crown, and he was on display.
#2 The king's seemingly endless and arduous imperial tours were a golden opportunity to reinforce the relevance of the monarchy. He visited some forty-five countries and travelled an estimated...
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#1 Ijichi Eiji's world is alien from Japanese norms, but it reveals so much of the average man's thoughts and feelings. His book has been translated into English and is available worldwide.
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#1 Giacomo Casanova was the child of a love match between two actors. His father, with the grand name of Gaetano Giuseppe Giacomo Casanova, had left his family in Parma, moved to Venice, and joined a company of actors at the San Samuele theater. He fell in love with a young actress named Giovanna Farussi, and they were married by a bishop on February 17, 1724.
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#1 The wedding was an intimate affair, with only close friends and family present. The couple did not attend a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony, but they did have a Kiddush before the meal.
#2 Gutel decided never to marry again after the death of his wife. He took care of his children, and his niece Itka came to help them with the children. Gutel was a religious...
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#1 The streets of New York's Lower East Side were what struck the immigrants first. The area was home to more than one million people, four thousand residents per block, more tightly packed than the population of Bombay, India.
#2 The Siegels lived on the Lower East Side in New York, in a three-room apartment with no running water or indoor plumbing, the only light provided...
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#1 The birth of Prince Harry's first child in May 2019 offered the two brothers a chance to reconcile and embrace. They had tiffs and troubles before the wedding in 2018, but the birth of a spring baby brings everyone together.
#2 The warming pan was the electric blanket or rubber hot water bottle of its day, and it was used in 1688 to smuggle a healthy substitute baby...
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#1 In June, the Italian government delivered a devastating report on the state of their nation. The country was corrupt, with inefficient bureaucrats and military leaders. They wanted peace, at any price.
#2 After the meeting, Mussolini was taken away and detained. He was moved to an isolated hotel high in the Abruzzi mountains east of Rome. He thought about writing...
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#1 On August 14, 1945, the Japanese emperor's surrender was announced in Nazareth, Kentucky. The chimes from the stone chapel next to the convent began to sound, and Mother Superior Ann Sebastian Sullivan listened as the ringing pierced the air.
#2 The Sisters of Charity, who were the primary nursing staff for four hospitals in three states, refused to join the war effort...
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#1 Katherine Swynford, the famous adulteress, was placed in the household of Philippa of Hainault, wife to Edward III of England, at the age of two or thereabouts. She was a Hainaulter and may have had noble or even royal connections through her mother.
#2 The arms of the town of Le Roeulx were a silver lion on a green field holding a wheel in its paw. This is a play...
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#1 On Friday, 29 June 1860, Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep in their house in Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They were bedridden with a baby on the first floor. Their eldest daughter, five-year-old Mary Amelia, shared their room.
#2 On Friday, the Kents' nursemaid, Emily Doel, put the children to bed. Half an hour later, Gough carried Eveline up to the nursery and...
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#1 In December 2020, Ukraine's president was a TV actor who was in a music video from 2009. The country was dealing with a lot of controversies at the time, and he personally oversaw the communications team's output.
#2 Ukraine is a basket case. Its politics are a mess, its economy is in shambles, and its society is splintering into two camps — those who are more...
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#1 On July 25, 1944, five days after the failed attempt on his life at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler announced a new position in the German government: Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War. He appointed Goebbels to the role.
#2 Goebbels was a man of culture and an intellectual, but he also acted evilly and cruelly. He was a cynical opportunist who was willing to sell his propagandist...
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#1 The Soviet Union had the best parades in the world. They were mandatory, and attendance was mandatory, rain or otherwise. On April 26, 1986, the year before I entered first grade, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, spewing a radioactive cloud over the Ukraine.
#2The teacher, Anna Konstantinovna, taught us how to sit and how to use our arms and hands when...
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#1 The FBI had been watching Massino for some time before the arrest. They knew he was a dangerous man, but he seemed to be the last American Mafia boss to be free on the streets. He was not above having blood on his hands.
#2 On January 9, 2003, two FBI agents went to see Joseph Massino at his house in New York. They had been watching him for over four years. He was...
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#1 The Princess was the most beautiful girl in the class. She was always drawing houses. Renya was fascinated by her intensity as she busied herself on her houses, never taking her eyes off her drawings. One day, Renya complimented her on her work, and the Princess accepted it. But she never asked Renya what she was doing that weekend.
#2 Karla was a very different girl...
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#1 Margaret Rose, the sister of the Queen, had a difficult time watching the movie “Schindler's List”. She had been raised to renounce her German roots, and she was not disturbed by the bombings during World War II.
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#1 On March 16, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy, the junior Senator for New York, announced his candidacy for the presidency in the same room as John F. Kennedy did eight years earlier. He was criticized for being a coward for not running against Johnson and McCarthy.
#2 In February 1968, the Tet Offensive, a series of attacks by North Vietnamese forces against American...
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#1 The first death occurred without Pete's knowledge, and it was kept a secret. The Soviets allowed the grim news to leak a month or so later. When an agent goes silent, there can be many benign reasons. But hard-nosed professionals believe that the search for excuses is largely wishful thinking.
#2 In 1974, Ogorodnik was transferred back to Moscow and given a desk in...
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Book Preview: #1 Feudal Europe was a military society dominated by men. Christianity governed the lives of everyone in feudal Europe, and the Pope's decrees were ultimate authority for all spiritual and moral matters. Women had little place in this society.
#2 Eleanor of Aquitaine was heiress to one of the richest domains in mediaeval Europe. In the twelfth century, the county of...
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#1 William Marshal, the boy who was executed by King Stephen of England in 1152, began his life as the hostage given over to the crown as surety for his father's word. He was a pawn in the great game of power and politics then being played out within a realm wracked by civil war.
#2 The English kingdom was in the grips of a ruinous fifteen-year conflict between King...
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