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#1 When Abraham Lincoln was eighteen, he lost his sister, Sarah, who was two years older than he was. She had been his only companion after the death of their mother.
#2 Lincoln's boyhood was marked by tragedy and grief, and his adult life was characterized by shocks of violence and suffering even greater than those of his youth. He was haunted by the specter of death.
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#1 After leaving Dodge City, Bat went to Leadville, Colorado, to gamble. He was confident he could make good money gambling. He did not get Wyatt's vote in the election because he had already left.
#2 Wyatt had a difficult time finding a new frontier to explore, so he decided to move to Arizona. He was not looking for a town to raise a family in, but he did buy property...
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#1 World War Two meant many things to many people. It meant death for many, technological innovation, bureaucratic expansion, and an extraordinary mobilization of human resources and ideological fervor for governments.
#2 Racism played a significant role in World War Two, and it was not limited to the Nazis. The Western Allies, particularly the United States and United...
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#1 The Industrial Revolution in America began in the mid-eighteenth century when small-scale manufacturing underwent a radical transformation with the development of new technology that used waterpower to generate energy that moved machines.
#2 The Industrial Revolution, which took place from about 1760 to about 1830, was the second technological advancement that allowed...
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Book Preview: #1 The slave trade was the largest commercial enterprise in the history of humanity, spanning continents and generations. It involved a vast and lowly proletariat, hundreds of thousands of sailors, and millions of slaves.
#2 A man named Captain Tomba was among a group of dejected prisoners in a holding pen. He was tall, strong, and defiant. He saw a group of white men...
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More than 700 quotations provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War. The voices of the great and famous, the ordinary and the unknown, resound in these pages. Arranged chronologically and divided by specific topics and events, this well-researched volume puts a human face on history.
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#1 The Kansas Territory was formed in 1854, and in 1855, the settlers there voted to allow slavery. This became known as Bleeding Kansas, as the territory was constantly being threatened by pro-slavery settlers from Missouri.
#2 The violence between the Jayhawkers and the Bushwhackers continued to escalate, and it was not uncommon for towns like Fort Scott to be raided...
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#1 I was in the sere and yellow leaf, dried and shrivelled, about to fall and become one with my millions of predecessors. I was unable to do anything except live over in memory the stirring years I spent on the frontier.
#2 I was excited to see the Far West, land of my dreams and aspirations. I saw the beautiful groves and rolling green slopes of the lower river, the...
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#1 The first female native Timucuan leader was named princess of the island for her strength and courage. In the 1700s, the British and Spanish fought for control of the island. The British built two forts to defend against the Spanish navy.
#2 Oglethorpe secured Cumberland Island and the Georgia coast in the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742, which marked the end of the...
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#1 The police precinct of Midtown North is a microcosm of the public picture of New York. It stretches from the Hudson River piers and the decrepit West Side Highway east to the soaring towers and exclusive shops that line Fifth Avenue.
#2 There is a barely concealed stench of desperation and fear beneath the wealth, glitter, and success of New York City. For some,...
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#1 For millions of years, Florida was uninhabited, because it was geographically remote and several hundred feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic. It was not until Global Rising that Florida emerged from the ocean and began to grow.
#2 Florida's economy was mainly agricultural until 1865, when the Civil War broke out. In that year, a farmer decided to prank shipment...
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#1 On a cold February evening in 1829, Captain Charles Hawkins returned home to his wife, who was having an affair with his attorney, William Allison McRea. He shot McRea, but it was too late. The young man had escaped.
#2 The next morning, the sun temporarily turned the island's warehouses and wharves pale shades of rose and tangerine. Captain Charles Hawkins was impatient,...
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#1 The launch director of the shuttle Columbia was one of the people who would welcome her home when she landed at 9:16 AM. But instead of hearing the customary booms, he heard silence. Something was terribly wrong.
#2 In the midst of a spaceflight contingency, the administrator of NASA made a difficult decision and declared a spaceflight emergency.
#3 I was the eighth...
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#1 During the 1950's, anti-intellectualism became a common part of American vocabulary. The term was used to describe the fear that the critical mind was at a ruinous discount in this country.
#2 During the Eisenhower administration, the country seemed to be turning away from anti-intellectualism. The launch of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 brought about a period of...
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#1 Kennedy was going to Dallas to speak about the space program. He had been warned about Dallas by many people, including Senator William Fulbright, who had told him, Dallas is a very dangerous place. I wouldn't go there.
#2 On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas. The motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, a wide expanse of grass stretching...
37) Los Mayas
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En la región que se extiende desde Chiapas hasta El Salvador, desde el litoral de Tabasco hasta Belice y Honduras, y en la península de Yucatán, los mayas construyeron una civilización brillante, que durante siglos alcanzó un gran nivel intelectual y cultural. Esta obra nos descubre esta civilización lejana y nos presenta: los orígenes de la cultura maya (la herencia olmeca...), el apogeo intelectual y cultural (astronomía, matemáticas,...
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#1 Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who wrote Treasure Island. He wrote the book in three days, and it was published in installments in Young Folks magazine. He had not been well in Scotland, and he spent the winter with his wife and stepson in Davos, Switzerland.
#2 The book, Treasure Island, was written by Robert Lewis Stevenson and published in 1883. It...
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Book Preview: #1 The idea of human progress is a myth. While there have been periods of improvement in the way humans treat each other, history is a jagged line with no discernible slope.
#2 There has been steady progress toward liberalism over the last two centuries, but this progress has been met with the rise of the modern police state in response.
#3 The past few decades have...
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#1 As a young woman with modest means and few prospects, Ruth Middleton transformed her life by moving north. She took a leap into the unknown as a Black woman in the 1910s, and she was still a teenager at the time.
#2 The sack that Ruth brought to Philadelphia around 1918 was the only definitive primary source detailing the fate of Rose and Ashley. It does not include any sources...
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