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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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#1 The state motto Live Free or Die is one of the least-subtle state mottos in the United States, and the signers from New Hampshire, especially Josiah Bartlett, lived by this phrase.
#2 Bartlett's political career took him out of medicine for a time, but he never abandoned his calling. He was a founder and first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. His sons...
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#1 On January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall. He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children-two still in diapers-waiting for their mother, Henrietta. She had been telling her closest friends something was wrong with her sex life, but she still said no when she was pregnant with Joe, her fifth child.
#2 Henrietta was diagnosed with a tumor on her...
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#1 The first group of scholarly work on the Ukraine-Russia crisis is focused on the Euromaidan Revolution, which was different from the 2004 Orange Revolution in five ways. First, it lasted for three months, far longer than the seventeen-day Orange Revolution. Second, the Euromaidan was driven as much by national liberation as it was by European integration and human...
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#1 The crusades were running down, and the English prince Edward took the cross in 1270 to go and help out his fellow Christians in the Holy Land.
#2 The English prince, Edward, was left to defend Jerusalem on his own. He was quickly defeated by the Saracens, and while his wife tried to save him, he had to accept the terms of peace. Another of the long series of crusades...
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#1 To call Los Angeles an intellectual capital is to imply that it is fertile cultural soil that cannot produce any homegrown intellectuals. However, this is not entirely true. Los Angeles has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry that has imported countless talented writers, filmmakers, artists, and visionaries.
#2 Los Angeles has been a site of both...
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#1 There is too much sympathy for Nazis today. Anything more than zero sympathy is too much sympathy. Because Nazis deserve to die. And American soldiers were reluctant to take Nazi prisoners, because their superior officers wanted to question them and not waste them.
#2 The Reconquista was the name given to the process of reclaiming Spain's territory from the Muslims, which took...
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#1 In 2001, teenager Noor Ahmed was walking through the Afghan village of Gayawa when he noticed a group of people huddled in a corner. They told him that everyone else in their village had died in a surprise Taliban attack.
#2 In 1994, Afghanistan was ravaged by a civil war, but the Taliban, a fanatical band of religious students, swept aside the warring factions and...
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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, and they may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined him to take with him on his second voyage.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, and 132 soldiers and civilians were killed....
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Get the Summary of Mark Dice's “The True Story of Fake News” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
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#1 A storm in 1850 killed two hundred people in the British Isles. The archipelago was a relatively new addition to the UK, having been annexed from Norway in the sixteenth century. The wind's destructive force also proved an impetus of discovery, as some of the villagers who lived on the western coast of Orkney discovered a five-thousand-year-old settlement at the Bay...
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#1 Ronald's life was turned upside down when his father died and his mother remarried. They moved constantly, which contributed to Ronald's lack of social skills. He was expelled from school at age 16 for his violent outbursts.
#2 Ronald's life was completely turned around when he entered military school. He thrived under the strict order and pressure of the school's...
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#1 The idea of mental events generating physical effects may at first seem counter-intuitive, but in reality it's something we experience every day. For example, when I think about stroking someone's cheek, a pulse jumps a synapse in my brain, something like an electrical current burns down a nerve in my arm, and my hand moves.
#2 The universe that this book describes...
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#1 The scene in which Han Solo lands the Millennium Falcon on what he takes to be an asteroid is impossible. The humans of the future will surely understand that only for a brief period of time, less than three centuries, did a significant number of their kind believe that planets and asteroids are inert.
#2 To recognize is not the same as an initial introduction. It...
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#1 I grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia, which was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. My father, Homer Hickam, was the mine superintendent, and our house was situated just a few hundred yards from the mine's entrance.
#2 The company church was set on a little grassy knob. In the 1950's, it was presided...
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#1 The Japanese cherry blossom is a symbol of springtime, and the Japanese eagerly follow the sakura forecast to know when the flowers will show their white petals.
#2 The Japanese celebrate the blossom forecast, known as the sakura zensen, with a festival that lasts for two weeks. The sakura petals begin to fall a week later, and the Japanese enjoy watching them fall.
#3 When we...
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#1 I had spent more than a year reassuring people around the world that Trump couldn't win the presidency. But on a gray Sunday two days before the election, I entered the Berkeley Rep with twenty Stanford students to see the final performance of It Can't Happen Here.
#2 I knew that America was not a perfect democracy, but I did not think that it could possibly elect...
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