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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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The land of the free and home of the brave. How much do you know of the history of modern-day America? From its discovery by Columbus to its participation in World war 1 and 2 we can see that America has left its mark on the world. It hasn't all been plain sailing and nobody should dare say otherwise, but has it been a success? Jump into this concise retelling of American history and judge for yourself as we attempt to take a neutral approach to the...
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In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with...
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#1 The men in the canoes were skilled, but they knew disaster was just a moment away. They were navigating among the islands of wbanakik, a beautiful but dangerous edge of the world.
#2 The Wapánahki were not a unified people. The languages spoken by those living far away were similar but subtly different from those of Ktə̀hαnəto and his relatives. They knew that...
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This work tells the history of the Incan army from its origins until its destruction in 1572 A.D. It describes how, thanks to the organization and discipline of the army, the Incas were able to expand their borders and become one of the largest empires in the world. The events of this ancient empire are explored from a military and historical viewpoint, highlighting wartime activities and major battles, and the main heroes who fought against the Spaniards....
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#1 Mokhtar was a man of action and purpose. He had finally saved enough money to enroll at City College of San Francisco, and he was ready to start law school in the fall. He thought about what it would be like to have a law degree, and eventually run for office.
#2 Mokhtar lost the satchel containing the three thousand dollars and his new eleven-hundred-dollar laptop...
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In the late eighteen hundreds when Shirks grandmother was a young person, womens choices were limited. Frances knew she was meant to be a nurse, but, being young and unmarried, society said no. Her friend Sally, granddaughter of slaves, knew she could be a great teacher, but there was little chance for her to get training. Reading this book in a group and then having a discussion about it takes courage. Its not easy to talk about race and gender issues....
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#1 Rudy Giuliani, who would become the mayor of New York, was obsessed with John F. Kennedy during high school, and as an adult, he romanticized his upbringing as something close to perfect.
#2 Giuliani's father was a milkman who was arrested for robbing people, and his psychiatrist report characterized his aggression as pathological.
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#1 America's Jazz Age began in July 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama, when a strikingly beautiful woman named Zelda Sayre caught the eye of First Lieutenant Francis Scott Fitzgerald. She was 17 years old, and she had a well-earned reputation for violating the time-honored codes of sexual propriety.
#2 Zelda was a popular girl at Sidney Lanier High School, and she was well...
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#1 The image of Texas is dominated by the Cowboy, the Rancher, and the Oilman, who are typically White men. What this means for everyone who lives in Texas and is not a White man is part of what I hope to explore in the essays of this book.
#2 The Big Thicket, an area in eastern Texas, is home to 75 percent of North America's bird species. It is also the home of...
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#1 The couple had planned their escape for months. On a Wednesday or a Sunday night, when everyone was in church for the 6:30 p. m. service, they would leave the house and start loading up their car. They had only ten minutes to get out.
#2 The Coopers were members of Word of Faith Fellowship, an independent evangelical Christian church in North Carolina. The church...
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#1 The Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands began on 2 April 1982, with the invasion of Mullet Creek. The Argentinians were met by British troops, who surrendered after five hours of fighting. 67 Royal Marines and 11 members of the Royal Navy were captured.
#2 The Falklands are a temperate climate with little rainfall, but strong winds. The islands are treeless,...
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#1 On April 27, 1945, Mondig was hiding in an abandoned farm outside of Dachau concentration camp with barely enough room to move. The ditch was barely five feet deep, three feet long, and two feet wide. It was hardly a comfortable living arrangement, but as it was a matter of life and death, it was more than acceptable for the time being.
#2 The ditch was pitch black....
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#1 The F-105 was a powerful and big aircraft designed to fly fast and dangerously low. It was used in a different war for completely different reasons. The pilots were tasked with obliterating the SAM sites that killed Ross Fobair three days earlier.
#2 The Thud was a well-designed and roomy plane. It was set up around a T-shaped center console. Every few seconds Vic...
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#1 On the evening of July 18, 2003, eighteen-year-old Brittney Vikko went to visit her friend Tiffany Rowell. Something was wrong, she felt, and she was screaming for the police.
#2 When you're just out of high school, you're still running on a full tank of teen angst. To think about college seems overwhelming, so you want to go with the flow. But when you're least expecting...
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#1 The story of John Johnston, an Irishman, and his Ojibwe wife, Green Prairie Woman, is a passage in the history of mixing blood between Europeans and Indians.
#2 The Hudson's Bay Company, an English corporation created through royal charter, began operations in 1670. The decades-long conflict between European nations and Native Americans spread from New England to...
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#1 I began life as a white girl in the segregated South, and I'm likely to end it as a Jewish woman in Berlin. I was never a victim of a concentration camp or pogrom, and I learned about the Holocaust as a child, but it did not impact my own life.
#2 I have a deep connection with the South, and I miss it. I miss the newness of green, and the promise that it brings.
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#1 The Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, was the setting for the story. It was a world bustling and tranquil, with a musky sweet-smelling blend of extremes. The sisters, Dora and Claire, were the only unmarried women there.
#2 The sisters, Ethel and Gertrude, had died from scarlet fever when they were young. Their father had died shortly after their mother....
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#1 The story of adoptees connected to the Tennessee Children's Home Society is a very familiar one to Connie Wilson. She was one of the last babies placed by the scandal-ridden orphanage, and her adoption was held up.
#2 The end of Tann's reign of terror nears in 1950, when the state of Tennessee releases a report detailing her years of nefarious dealings in the adoption...
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