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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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#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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Until the last decade of the last century, most Americans thought that terrorism was something that happened abroad. However, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, dramatically underscored the depth of animosity that some people have toward the United States.
#2 There are five principal reasons why terrorists resort to...
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#1 In 1941, the British were facing a difficult situation. The Germans had conquered most of Europe, and their navy had been destroyed in the Battle of the Atlantic. The British were also taking a severe beating at home from German bombers.
#2 On May 21, a British agent in Sweden sent a coded message to the Admiralty in London about two German warships that...
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#1 I was 18 years old, a freshman at the University of Arizona, when I decided to enlist in the military. I was shocked by the footage of the first Twin Tower collapsing, but it was an image within that image that gripped me deepest: the tiny speck of a human being plummeting fifty-plus stories to their death.
#2 I wanted to join the military, but I was afraid of the...
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#1 The video panels at the top of One World Trade Center in New York City simulate the feel of a glass-walled elevator as it climbs 102 floors in 47 seconds. The video also offers a unique perspective on the city's Protestant church steeples.
#2 White Christian America's monuments to its own power are visible in the changing uses of three iconic structures:...
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Get the Summary of Kara Cooney's The Good Kings in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs-Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa-to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future.
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#1 Kerosene is a liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks like spaghetti. Olive oil is a gloopy liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks more like twirled spaghetti.
#2 The Persian physician and alchemist Rhazes developed special chemical procedures to extract kerosene, a liquid made of carbon-based molecules...
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#1 The three leaders who would at Yalta decide the end of the war and the shape of the future peace shared only a single common goal: the speedy defeat of Nazi Germany. They were all in poor health, with Roosevelt being the poorest.
#2 Churchill was a habitual alcoholic. He enjoyed whisky, which he always drank without ice but with enough soda or water for one of his...
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#1 The Angevin country began between Normandy and Brittany and extended down through Maine and Anjou. It was during the reign of the Angevins that the English family gained its reputation for violence and wickedness. But the English were so proud of them that they often forgave their wickednesses and peccadilloes.
#2 The Counts of Anjou removed themselves to England...
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