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Get the Summary of Julia Cooke's Come Fly the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of...
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Get the Summary of Pablo Vierci's Society of the Snow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Society of the Snow" by Pablo Vierci recounts the harrowing tale of the survivors of the Flight F571 crash in the Andes. The narrative follows the survivors' return to the crash site, their emotional and physical struggles, and the profound transformations they underwent. The group, including Roberto Canessa, Gustavo Zerbino,...
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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. On the Titanic's maiden voyage, a seemingly minor collision with an iceberg led to a catastrophic sinking, revealing the ship's fatal vulnerabilities and the unpreparedness of its passengers and crew. The initial underestimation of the damage, combined with a lack of sufficient lifeboats and a delayed response from nearby ships,...
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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#1 The final season of fantasy TV series Game of Thrones was premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It was a send-off to the most-watched show in the history of HBO.
#2 The Radio City premiere was a bittersweet affair, as the company was undergoing a massive restructuring process. Richard Plepler, the company's longtime New York headquarters building's...
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#1 The revolution is taking place in how organizations are being run. Firms like Apple and Samsung offer devices that can be tailored to meet the individual wants and whims of hundreds of millions of users. Firms like Tesla, Saab, and Ericsson upgrade cars, planes, and networks by delivering new software via the Web.
#2 The new management paradigm is changing the world...
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#1 The Arctic weather was even worse that fall of 1855. The whaleship George Henry was navigating its way through the Davis Strait when it was struck by floating packs of ice. The temperature had continued to fall, threatening to turn the ice into one impenetrable mass.
#2 The crew of the George Henry found a ship named the HMS Resolute, with no crew on board. They were...
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#1 America's symbol is now Las Vegas, a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.
#2 The American culture of show business is not an exception. In America, the least amusing people are...
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#1 The Hook was the invisible force that propelled the pirates. It was the fear that the pirates instilled in the world's most powerful governments.
#2 The invisible hand is the hidden force that guides economic cooperation. It is the result of people's self-interest being directed towards serving the interests of others. It is a key concept in economics.
#3 The economic...
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#1 The idea that changed the world was conceived by Jack Kilby at the height of summer, when everyone else was on vacation. It was an idea of cosmic dimensions, and it would eventually win Kilby the Nobel Prize in Physics.
#2 In the 1950s, Americans were excited about the future, and magazines were happy to feed that appetite. The major breakthroughs in biology, genetics,...
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#1 When Michiaki Ikeda was six years old, the nuclear age smacked him in the face with a blinding flash of light. The bomb had the explosive equivalent in force of more than twenty kilotons of TNT, and it flattened almost everything within a kilometer radius. The concrete hospital building was mostly left standing, but the majority of the people inside were killed.
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#1 Harris Austin was a radio man who had been trained to snatch Soviet military signals and electronic communications out of thin air. He was going to be part of the crew of the U. S. submarine Cochino, which was about to become an experimental spy boat.
#2 Benitez was shocked to hear that Austin would be drilling holes in the submarine's hull to install the spy equipment. He was...
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#1 I am one of the few who have survived a plane crash from a great height. The crash shaped the rest of my life and led me to where I am today. It was my good fortune that I had spent a few years of my young life in the jungle.
#2 I fell in love with the jungle when I was young, and I have spent my life preserving it. The rain forest is not only full of wonders, but...
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#1 The latitude and longitude lines govern the world today, as they have for centuries. They were first mapped out by Ptolemy in his first world atlas in AD 150.
#2 The difference between latitude and longitude is that the zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. To find...
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#1 I had a conversation with Barack Obama in 2008, when he was the Democratic presidential nominee, about NASA. I explained to him that the Shuttle was the most visible part of NASA, but its designated purpose had been to lower launch costs and make space travel routine. However, it had never come close to achieving this goal.
#2 I had been attracted to a career at NASA...
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#1 We had to find a four-wheel-drive truck and a study area and accomplish enough solid research to attract a grant before our money ran out. We were exhausted from traveling, and before anything else, we needed sleep.
#2 We were determined to find a place that was far from human settlements where the predators had not been affected by them. We ended up in Maun, a village...
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#1 The treasure was buried five feet down in the South Carolina soil, in the shadow of a gnarled tulip poplar tree. But the tale doesn't end there. Legrand found the code on a parchment washed up from a shipwreck.
#2 Claude Shannon was a boy who loved to tinker with things. When he was young, he built a fence that could carry electricity between two houses and used it...
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#1 Mileva Marić was born on December 19, 1875, in the town of Titel in the predominately Serbian province of Vojvodina on the southern border of Hungary. She was the first child of Miloš Marić and Marija Ruzić.
#2 The Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Hungary began to dissolve its Military Frontier. Miloš returned to civilian life in the year of Mileva's birth....
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