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#1 I was a teenager who was very interested in the world. I lost interest in church, and became very interested in the world. I was labeled a delinquent, and had to appear in juvenile court. I barely lied my way out of the sentence and into six months of probation instead.
#2 I had made a commitment to Christ, but I had lost my friends as a result. I was alone, and I...
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#1 The first Allied airborne operation was codenamed Operation Colossus, and it took place in September 1943. It involved the British Special Air Service dropping into the heart of Mussolini's Fascist Italy to blow up the country's life-giving watercourse, the Aqueduct Pugliese.
#2 The mission was successful, and the aqueduct was destroyed. However, the mission commander,...
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#1 On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.
#2 The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men...
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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 The Allied invasion of Italy was led by the US VI Corps, which was made up of American and British divisions. The Germans had made the advance tortuous, and the British soldiers were extremely tired. But they continued their struggle, taking tiny bites out of the terrain.
#2 The Italian Campaign, with its distrust, frustration, dispute, and resentment, had brought...
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Get the Summary of C. E. Lucas Phillips' Escape of the Amethyst in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
C. E. Lucas Phillips's Escape of the Amethyst was written with the full assistance of Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO RN, who took over control of the Amethyst, and utilises a wealth of Admiralty records, much of which was previously classified as Secret, to provide a vivid account of this extraordinary moment in 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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#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 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 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 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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Get the Summary of Dmitry Degtev & Dmitry Zubov's Air Battle for Moscow 1941—1942 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: In October 1941, Operation Typhoon and the battle for Moscow began. According to Hitler's plan, it was to be the 'last offensive', after which nothing could stop Germany from conquering Britain and the rest of Europe — but first he had to overcome the Soviets and...
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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 night hugs the ground and swallows you up as you drive out of Albuquerque and into the desert. As you head east along 40 and then south along 285 to Roswell, there is only you and the tiny universe ahead of you defined by your headlights.
#2 The activity at Roswell increased over the next couple of days, until it looked like a steady stream of airspace violations....
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Kaufman's The Last Kings of Shanghai in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The book lays bare the moral compromises of the Kadoories and the Sassoons-and their exceptional foresight, success, and generosity. At the height of World War II, they joined together to rescue and protect eighteen thousand Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. Though their stay in China started...
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#1 The Allied leaders were gathered in the War Room at Southwick House. The storm outside was terrible, and the weather was abysmal. The decision whether or not to launch the invasion of Europe rested with Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander.
#2 The invasion of Normandy was a huge undertaking, and one that required a lot of coordination. It was decided that...
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