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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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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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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...
5) California
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Lonely Planet's California is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Amble down Hollywood Boulevard, hike in Yosemite National Park and take a boat to the infamous Alcatraz; all with your trusted travel companion.
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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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Book Preview: #1 The first European subculture in the United States is found in the arid hills of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Spanish Americans have been living in this part of El Norte since 1595, and they remain fiercely protective of their heritage.
#2 The Spanish received the largest bequest in human history from Pope Alexander VI in 1493: 16 million square miles,...
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#1 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met his wife in 1964, when she was sixteen, and they were pregnant with their first child, Beth, in 1965. They had saved enough by the late 1960s to buy their first trawler.
#2 Billy Joe Aplin was a fisherman in 1975, and his family decked-out with all the trappings. He met...
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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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THE TURKEY FEATHER CAPE my creation from beyond history.
This is an 'Indian Jones' cultural adventure that goes back a millennium; earlier than 1541 AD, the first history written about the Chickasaw Nation. When the door is opened to the past, we gain wisdom for the future. The Chickasaw never had, never needed, a written language, because the stories and knowledge were passed down by the elders, the Honored Ones. Much corporate knowledge died with...
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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 The former police chief, Bill Parsons, had a first-rate pension and medical plan, but it seemed to amount to nothing more than an open ticket to see more urologists and respiratory therapists. He could not take a breath of cool air.
#2 Chief Bill Parsons, who had kept a secret his entire career, was now so lonely that it sometimes felt like physical pain. He longed...
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#1 The earthquake in Ecuador in 1906 was the most powerful ever recorded by the machines of man. It destroyed the island port of Tumaco, and killed as many as 2,000 people.
#2 There were several large earthquakes in the Caribbean in the 1970s, and they did not kill anyone. But they did trigger a burst of smaller earthquakes, which went on for two or three weeks....
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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 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 The boys set a fire at the Gerrity Lumber Company in Boston, which was investigated by the police. They targeted a large, tall single-story brick building. The pair walked to the front of the structure, where they found the large overhead door open. They entered the building and planted two devices.
#2 The fire was visible from a half-mile away, and flames were soaring...
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#1 Penn State University, the largest and most prestigious public university in Pennsylvania, was also the most inaccessible. It was a small town with a big university.
#2 Penn State University, the largest public university in Pennsylvania, was also the most inaccessible. It was a small town with a big university.
#3 The Penn State University library was the most inaccessible....
18) El último baluarte: La campaña de independencia del Caribe y la capitulación de Cartagena, 1819-1821
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La guerra de independencia en la Costa Caribe, que culminó con la capitulación de Cartagena y la salida de las tropas realistas, en octubre de 1821, fue un episodio decisivo de la emancipación colombiana de España. Este libro contiene ocho excelentes ensayos de destacados historiadores sobre cómo fue completándose estratégicamente la independencia de la Nueva Granada. Fue un momento heroico y único, dice Rodolfo Segovia en el Prólogo, que...
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#1 In the northern latitudes, the dawn came early. In Berlin, Germany's most bombed city, the ruins stood out in stark, macabre splendor. The city was blackened by soot, pockmarked by thousands of craters, and laced by the twisted girders of ruined buildings.
#2 The 314th American bombing raid on Berlin was over, and the city was in ruins. The statistics of destruction...
20) Los Incas
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Los incas -fundadores de uno de los imperios más grandes de todos los tiempos, Tahuantinsuyu, que ocupaba un territorio de más de 4.000 km de longitud sobre la costa de Sudamérica y agrupaba a aproximadamente doce millones de habitantes- reinaron durante cientos de años antes de que su organización sucumbiera a principios del siglo xvi. La civilización inca fue excepcionalmente rica y brillante, llena de fervor espiritual en todos los instantes...
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