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Get the Summary of Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks-those that are honest about the past and those that are not-that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history,...
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Get the Summary of James Rebanks' Pastoral Song in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profiles his family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the...
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In this book the Classical Music Collection presents the sheet music for Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op.36 By Edward Elgar composed in 1899. In 15 sections: Theme (Andante), Variation I. L'istesso tempo "C.A.E.", Variation II. Allegro "H.D.S-P.", Variation III. Allegretto "R.B.T.", Variation IV. Allegro di molto "W.M.B.", Variation V. Moderato "R.P.A.", Variation VI. Andantino "Ysobel", Variation VII. Presto "Troyte", Variation VIII....
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#1 The lawyer, Billy Payne, tried to sell the idea of the Atlanta Olympics to the mayor, Andy Young. But Young had already decided to support the idea.
#2 The Olympic Games had been created in Greece in the eighth century BCE as a religious event to honor the god Zeus. In 1896, a French aristocrat with a passion for Greek philosophy, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, led an...
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#1 In AD 1191, Conrad of Montferrat ascended the throne as King of Jerusalem. He planned to drive Muslims from the Holy Land, earning a place in history as a Christian hero. But he died soon after, and his followers were killed by Muslims when they surrendered.
#2 The Dai-el-Kebir, the castle's master, showed Henry his trusty servants. He explained that he had rid his...
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#1 The Washington's Birthday ball was the most brilliant event of the winter. It was not held in a tent, but in a special, weatherproof ballroom built by the II Army Corps. The guests were mostly officers' wives, who were quartered in wall tents.
#2 The war was still going on, and the end was nowhere in sight. The officers and women at the ball continued to...
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#1 The first sea people were the Polynesians, who lived on the margins between land and sea. Their language was rich in terms for describing the littoral.
#2 The Pacific Ocean has been understood by different people in different ways, and this is because it has a recorded starting point. It began on the 25th of September 1513, when the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez...
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Get the Summary of Dan Abrams and David Fisher's Kennedy's Avenger in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Millions of Americans witnessed...
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#1 Shin's mother was a prisoner in Camp 14. She was required to work all day, and if she met her daily work quota, she could bring home food for that night and the following day. Shin took as much food as he could from her, since he didn't know that she was also required to bring him food.
#2 In North Korea, marriage was a way for prisoners to escape their sentence,...
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#1 Oleg Kalugin, who was the KGB's chief of counterintelligence from 1974 to 1982, said that the Soviet Union first targeted foreign elections a century ago. They would provide money and support to people they thought would be friendly and change their countries' foreign and domestic policies.
#2 Secret funding is perhaps the oldest form of covert electoral interference....
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#1 This book takes us through one day in the life of Hadrian's Rome, with the city seen from the different perspectives of twenty-four of its inhabitants. The people are the city: the buildings and monuments that tourists admire are secondary, important only as the physical echo of the people who built and lived among them.
#2 The city of Rome was more than just a collection...
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#1 On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland with fifty-eight divisions, fourteen of which were armored or motorized. Poland put into the field only thirty divisions, mostly cavalry and infantry, with just one motorized brigade.
#2 The Polish General Staff, led by Romer, had unrealistic strategic ideas stemming from a foreign policy that had seen Soviet Russia as the...
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#1 The appearance of Mr. Smith as he comes to the breakfast table in 1919 is very different from that of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 1919. The movement of men's fashions is glacial, but Mrs. Smith's suit has become even shorter since 1919, and she has never heard of such dark arts as face-lifting.
#2 The first tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, was not released until...
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#1 The original holy trinity of the Asian spice trade was pepper, clove, and nutmeg. Pepper was used extensively by the Romans and was the primary ingredient in their cuisine.
#2 The Romans used coins denominated in Pepper, but they were actually paid out in large numbers. The cost of pepper was so high and so much in demand that the Romans had to drain their empire...
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#1 The port of Gotenhafen, in East Prussia, was a major hub for the German evacuation effort. It had come under Nazi control in 1939 after the Third Reich invaded Poland. The Germans renamed the seaside city after the Goths, an ancient German tribe.
#2 The Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship that was used as a hospital ship during World War II. It was used to transport...
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#1 The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the last action of its life, by a group of British ships led by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. The German admirals were easily depressed, as they were constantly being urged onwards to victory for Fuhrer and Fatherland, while at the same time being cautioned against taking any risks with their ships.
#2 The Royal Navy has...
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#1 The Egyptian Nile is born of the confluence of two great rivers, the Blue Nile which rises in the highlands of Ethiopia, and the White Nile which is fed by Lake Victoria. It flows northwards for a thousand miles until it reaches the sea.
#2 The Nile has always been a source of wonder for Egyptians. They have always been aware of their unique environment, and have...
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Get the Summary of Eric Fisher's Mighty Storms of New England in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Snowstorms, floods, droughts,...
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Get the Summary of Mike Gonzalez's BLM in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United...
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#1 Amen was an Egyptian god who was worshiped in Thebes. He was the main god of the city, and he gained popularity and power during the New Kingdom. He was the husband of Mut, the sky goddess, and the father of Khonsu, the god of the moon.
#2 The Egyptians also syncretized their god of Thebes, Amen-Ra, with the biblical God. They saw Amen-Ra as an all-powerful and one...
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