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#1 Norma Wallace, the last madam of New Orleans, was waiting at home for her young husband to come home. She had a life of adventure and intrigue, but now she was waiting and worrying.
#2 Norma's parents moved to New Orleans when she was three months old. Her father, John Gauley Badon, had come from Covington, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain across...
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#1 The United States government built a naval base on the Mississippi River near the segregated Storyville neighborhood of New Orleans in 1917. The area was a jazz musicians' paradise, but it was closed down in 1919, and thousands of people left the city.
#2 The Mafia had built their empires on illegal, bootlegged liquor, which brought them millions of dollars...
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#1 Hannah's friend Caitlin always assumed that now Jack had left, Hannah would start dating and paint the town red. Instead, Hannah was exhausted and felt seventy-five rather than thirty-five.
#2 Daniel Morton, the new Head, was standing in the doorway of Hannah's classroom. He was there to check a couple of pieces of work. He had been hired to help Freddie reach his potential, but...
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#1 In 1308, the exiled Florentine poet Dante Alighieri was lost in a dark wood, with no sign of a path. He had no idea how he had arrived where he was. He saw a ghostly form that said, I am not a man. I was a poet who sang of Troy.
#2 The Divine Comedy is the greatest poem in the western canon. It is written in the Tuscan dialect of Dante's native Florence,...
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#1 Private James Lewis, an unremarkable member of the British East India Company's army, awoke in Agra. He was walking into one of history's most incredible stories.
#2 Lewis was born in London in 1800. He knew from a young age that Britain was not kind to people like him. He enlisted in the British East India Company's army in 1821, hoping for a better life.
#3 When...
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#1 On September 21, 1906, a five-year-old boy named Willie Labarbera was playing in front of his family's fruit store in New York City. He was kidnapped and never seen again. His family and friends suddenly realized that he had been taken by La Mano Nera, or the Black Hand Society.
#2 The Black Hand was an infamous crime organization that engaged in extortion, assassination,...
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#1 The count of Sicily, Roger, lifted his leg and farted. By the truth of my religion, he exclaimed, there is more use in that than in what you have to say. His advisors stood chastened. The plan they had recommended was not a good one, as courtiers' plans often are.
#2 Roger, count of Sicily, was born around the year 1040. He was the eleventh-century Europe's...
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#1 Ghosts are history. Whether you believe in them or not, every time a ghost story is told, someone is providing an interpretation of events of the past. The details of a ghost story may be factually accurate, or they may only be loosely based on actual occurrences.
#2 The story of Barbara Davidson, a young woman who was murdered and decapitated, is told at a...
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#1 The American army was ready for its big test in May 1944. The top soldier, Gen. George C. Marshall, had made sure of that. Every GI, from the greenest private to Marshall himself, was passionate about the clear-cut military principle that the fastest way home was to pummel the enemy into extinction.
#2 The American economy was finally in full swing by 1944, and the...
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#1 On October 12, 1492, three small ships commanded by a Genoese sailor named Christopher Columbus pushed their way westward near a tiny island in the Bahamas. Suddenly, a lookout on the Pinta sighted a shadowy form dead ahead.
#2 As Europe began to emerge from its local isolations, the feudal system was beginning to give way to the modern national state. The...
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#1 I pulled into the station, and the needle was on E, which was a mistake. In Detroit, you don't get your gas on the east side, not even at high noon. Because the east side of Motown is Dodge City: sel-awless and crazy.
#2 I spent my last ten dollars on gas. I was approached by two men in Arab dress who asked me what I was doing in Detroit. I didn't answer them, but...
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#1 I was six when my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball. I spent my afternoons sitting cross-legged before the squat Philco radio which stood as a permanent fixture on our porch in Rockville Centre, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.
#2 My father, Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns, was a short man who appeared much...
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#1 The first drug panic in Mexico was in 1908, when the police raided the warehouse of José Del Moral, a marijuana wholesaler, and found thousands of marijuana cigarettes. The newspapers reacted with full-blown hysteria, calling marijuana the poison of the lower classes.
#2 The first Mexican drug panic was in 1838, when newspapers reported that students were using marijuana...
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#1 Newport's Season Promises to Break All Records for Gayety. The rich flocked to the resort town in search of relaxation and entertainment, and local merchants prepared for them by raising their prices and stocking exotic provisions.
#2 The houses on and around Bellevue Avenue were the most elaborate preparations took place in the cottages. The head gardener and his...
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#1 The Stonehenge documentary I was involved in in 1998 brought in Malagasy archaeologist Ramilisonina to explain the significance of stone monuments to the locals. He explained that stone is an everlasting material with which one honors and commemorates the dead.
#2 An analogy is a comparison that implies an equivalence or a parallel between two things. We use analogies...
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#1 The American airmen were briefed on the mission to attack the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory in Bremen, Germany. The factory was the leading producer of the Luftwaffe's Focke-Wulf 190, the best fighter plane in the German Air Force.
#2 The air armada grew as the three other bomber groups assigned to Mission Number 52 slipped into position. The first sign of the...
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Book Preview: #1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years.
#2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began...
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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 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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