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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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#1 The king of that land, who had been friendly towards Columbus, changed his attitude and attacked the men of La Navidad when they returned. The Indians were so moved by their misfortune that they began to cry out of compassion.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed...
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#1 The Weimar Republic saw an explosion of ragtag movements, vigilante groups, and organized parties of all stripes. The Woman Question appeared in more diffuse, contradictory forms in Weimar culture and politics.
#2 The 1920s was when ordinary Germans experienced an expansion of individual liberties and a greater degree of political power. However, this also contributed...
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Book Preview:#1 The story of the debate between Lodge and Einstein began at the Royal Institution in London in 1894. Lodge was a professor of physics at the new University College of Liverpool, and his laboratory was housed in a space that had been the padded cell of a lunatic asylum. He seemed the embodiment of established British science.
#2 The Royal Institution became a sacred...
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Upinder Singh urges us to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of the coexistence of five powerful contradictions-between social inequality and promises of universal salvation, the valorization of desire and detachment, goddess worship and misogyny, violence and...
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Get the Summary of Tim Madigan's The Burning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then, celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were, reduced...
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#1 We met a man named Longfellow, who was begging for money to give to homeless children. We gave him a dime, but he requested more pennies. We gave him six cents, and he began to sing: These be gray days and a sweet singer in Israel is to be highly honored.
#2 We were not really hungry, but we went to Odds and Ends anyway. The food was delicious, but atmosphere was...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Pearl's The Taking of Jemima Boone in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.
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#1 Income taxes are a cost that reduces the amount of money suppliers receive for selling a product. This necessarily makes supply go down. A tax lowers a buyer's interest in buying, and the squeeze on profit margins from a tax makes producers sour on their own enterprises.
#2 The US income tax is an effective wealth tax that reduces supply and makes people lose interest...
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#1 The Scientific Revolution was the period in European history from the 14th to the 18th centuries when scientists began to question and change traditional beliefs. It was a rich tapestry of interwoven ideas and currents, a noisy marketplace of competing systems and concepts, and a busy laboratory of experimentation in all areas of thought and practice.
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#1 After his speech, Douglass was mobbed by the town's residents, who were excited to hear a black man speak so passionately about slavery. He was offered a job by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and began traveling around the country telling his story.
#2 Pleasant, as a girl, worked for the Husseys, a rich family on Nantucket. She learned to read and write,...
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#1 The downtown area around the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal is a dangerous place after dark. Colorful legions of thieves, muggers, crackheads, alcoholics, and ten-dollar whores prowl like hungry sharks around a bleeding man.
#2 He was a burglar, and he was good at his profession. He knew how to get into any type of home, even one with an alarm system. He couldn't...
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Get the Summary of Richard Haass's The Bill of Obligations in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change. In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Richard Haass argues that the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet our most intractable conflicts often emerge from...
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#1 In 1960, two young California engineers boarded a plane to attend an electronics technical meeting in Philadelphia. The International Circuits Conference had recently been focused on radio, but that was changing as electronic systems began to find their way into consumer, business, and military equipment.
#2 Crane was hired to work on a new computer being built by...
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#1 The meeting between Hitler and Mussolini took place on July 19, 1943, at Villa Gaggia, near the town of Feltre, some fifty miles north of Venice. It was Hitler's last trip to Italy. Mussolini had no interest in forming an alliance with Germany, but he was impressed by Hitler's consolidation of power and the remarkable turnaround of German industry.
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#1 On January 23, 1974, it was a Wednesday under the astrological sign of Aquarius. Richard Nixon was president, and he enhanced oil production in the United States by giving tax breaks to American oil companies. The national headlines were full of news about Watergate, the energy crisis, and space exploration.
#2 On January 23, 1974, in St. Augustine, Florida, the barometric...
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#1 The Japanese identity was forged in a system in which social hierarchy was established and sustained through martial competition. The code of the samurai, which was followed by only a small percentage of the population, became the model of honorable behavior among all young men.
#2 Japan was isolated from the rest of the world, and this allowed its society to remain...
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