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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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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 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 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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Get the Summary of Tom Bower's Revenge in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life-Prince Harry. Their whirlwind romance culminated with Meghan's ultimate...
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#1 The Second World War continued unabated in 1945 as it had for the previous six years. German chancellor Adolf Hitler took to the airwaves for the first time in over five months, proclaiming that the Fatherland would never give up, even as the Russians were closing in on his thousand-year Reich from the east and the Americans, British, French, and Canadians were marching...
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#1 The CEO of Merrill Lynch, Stan O'Neal, was re-elected almost unanimously by the institutional investors representing huge blocs of votes. The few individual shareholders who did attend the meeting were typically entranced by the prospect of getting themselves in front of a microphone.
#2 In 2007, problems emerged in the U. S. real estate market, which was the engine...
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#1 The Gulf of Honduras was unknown to most North Americans in 1839, as it was far removed from U. S. trade routes. But in 1802, the Spanish Empire began to dissolve, and its American colonies broke free.
#2 Stephens and Catherwood were tasked with meeting the leaders of the recently formed United Provinces of Central America and concluding a trade agreement. However,...
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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 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 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 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 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 The society we live in is a reset system. Each survivor time tries to reverse engineer the reset that the previous civilization went through. This is why we have so many questions about our ancient history.
#2 The Technasma technology can save and heal humanity, but it can also turn on us. The statue on the front cover of this book is a clue as to the type of Technasma...
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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 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 On June 7, 2008, George Herbert Walker, a 39-year-old second cousin of then President George W. Bush, and head of Lehman's Investment Management division, was celebrating his marriage to Nancy Dorn, a 31-year-old hedge fund analyst from Texas. The couple had exchanged their vows at New York's City Hall a few weeks earlier.
#2 The party was held to celebrate...
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#1 The band Green Day, who were signed to Lookout Records, had brought two lawyers with them when they came to visit the label. They were worried that their label was not prepared for the big time, and that they would be eaten alive in the music industry without the familial support of Lookout.
#2 In the 1980s, Larry Livermore moved into a solar-paneled cabin in...
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