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#1 I was in a men-only room with my companion, the Famous Blue Raincoat. We'd been domestic for years. It seemed difficult to understand why two men who were happy with each other would take the risk of going to these places where the atmosphere would tend to drive them apart.
#2 I had determined myself into that pace. I had not gone upstairs to be anything but another...
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#1 I was offered an extremely attractive assignment overseas in mid-September, 1942. I was to be placed in charge of the Army's part of the atomic effort. I was skeptical, but it took me several weeks to realize how overoptimistic an outlook Styer had presented.
#2 I was brought into the picture when research on the uses of atomic energy was already underway. The American-born...
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#1 The land of Extremadura, Francisco Orellana's homeland in the kingdom of Castile, produced hard and unyielding men who learned the arts of warfare as boys. They were a temperament forged by eight hundred years of conflict with the invading Moors.
#2 Orellana was a conquistador who participated in the expedition of 1541—42. He was also known to be cruel and impulsive....
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Book Preview: #1 The illegal slave trade was banned by every major power in the mid-1800s. But some countries, including the United States, had strong interests in permitting the trade to continue, despite its illegality.
#2 The United States and the traffickers who would come to operate from its ports were intimately connected to a much broader Atlantic story that would shape America's...
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#1 The parents of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary were also affected by the shooting. The parents of six-year-old Charlotte Bacon wanted to get her a pink dress for the holidays, but her mother argued against it. The father and son went shopping, and Jesse bought ornaments for his first-grade teacher and his mother.
#2 The family of seven-year-old Daniel Barden...
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#1 The murders of Vicki and Nancy were called the Rainbow Murders. They were killed in Pocahontas County, a sparsely populated area that consists largely of protected national forest and sits along West Virginia's eastern border with Virginia. No one was prosecuted for the murders for 13 years.
#2 The idea of Appalachia is well understood, but the actual place is less...
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#1 Morris, a member of the First Continental Congress, spoke of the future of the country during the summer of 1777. He spoke of a waterway that would span the wilderness of upper New York, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
#2 The American war for independence was won in 1783, and Americans began heading west to find land of their own. The trail through...
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#1 Dodge City was a gateway to the Great American Desert, and it was there that the American West and Manifest Destiny were symbolized. It was a reservoir of tall tales, yet many of the facts are equally if not more fascinating.
#2 The first explorers of America were looking for a land to settle, and they found it in Kansas, which was right in the middle of the Louisiana...
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Book Preview: #1 Presidents are, by their very nature, the subjects of copious written material. However, in many cases, the absence of juicy sex stories is not due to the unsullied conduct of the president, but because of a dearth of detailed information in the form of love letters, autobiographies, and newspaper reports.
#2 Many American presidents have had affairs, and many of...
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Book Preview: #1 The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.
#2 When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was...
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#1 The world is still recovering from the attack on America on September 11, 2001. The American president rallied his nation's support with a Let's get the bastards! He then ordered the invasion of Afghanistan against an unclear enemy.
#2 In the story of Troy, Paris, the prince of Troy, visited by three goddesses who handed him a golden apple, asking him to choose the...
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#1 Vivian Baxter was the firstborn of the Baxter children. Her father, a Trinidadian with a heavy Caribbean accent, had jumped from a banana boat in Tampa, Florida, and evaded immigration agents successfully all his life. He spoke often and loudly with pride about being an American citizen.
#2 Vivian's father made her brothers tough, and she followed suit. She would...
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#1 Azeema was a sniper, and her life and the lives of her teammates hinged on her ability to bide her time and know just the right moment to shoot. She was under siege in Kobani, a Kurdish town near the Syrian-Turkish border.
#2 The Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Syria, and they have been seeking their own land since the Treaty of Sèvres promised them a state...
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While most visitors to Mexico visit one of the great Mayan cities, it is worth visiting some of the lesser-known ruins like Mayapan and Balamku. Mayapan is an ancient Maya city in the northern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The site has a long history, with its first occupation dating back to at least 900 BC and its last occupation dating to around 1450 AD. The word "Mayapan" means "Hill of the Jaguar." The name refers to the shape of one of three hills...
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#1 In the year 1608, a man of ambition, intellect, and arrogance walked across London. He was a man of his age, and his complex personality was built around an impressive self-confidence. He was heading toward St. Paul's Cathedral, which then, as now, dominated the skyline.
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#1 I wrote an autobiography that was focused on the way I had been shaped by movements and campaigns in communities of struggle. I did not want to write a conventional autobiography in which the heroic subject offers lessons to readers.
#2 The American canon of literature has been contested before, and if one considers the autobiography of Malcolm X, which has clearly...
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#1 Area 51 is a riddle. Very few people comprehend what goes on there, and millions want to know. To many, Area 51 represents the Shangri-la of advanced espionage and war fighting systems.
#2 Area 51 is the location of the Central Intelligence Agency's first peacetime aerial espionage program, which was partnered with the U. S. Air Force. It was also the location of...
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#1 Butler Emanuel Birch went to the front room of Edgewood Cottage, parted a curtain, and glanced outside. It was going to be a cold, sunny morning. The car was empty, and there was a woman's foot underneath the driver's side door.
#2 When Curtis Campaigne and his wife, Edna, visited the Davidsons the next morning, they found Brad holding his wife's head in his lap....
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#1 The story of my family's griot, Jim, says that Madison had a relationship with one of his slaves, Coreen, that resulted in the birth of a son, Jim, who was sold and sent away when he was a teenager.
#2 I was a debutante in the cotillion, a ball sponsored by the Bay Area chapter of the Links, which was a national organization of wives of prominent black men. Dating...
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#1 Lourdes, the mother, is leaving her son, Enrique, behind in Honduras. She cannot afford to bring him with her to the United States, so she leaves him behind.
#2 The journey is hard for the Mexicans, but even harder for the Central Americans. They must make an illegal and dangerous trek up the length of Mexico. They are hunted by corrupt police, bandits, and gang...
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