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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 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...
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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 I had been the commander of Fox Company, the first Marine Special Operations Company in the Corps' 230-year history. I had led my men on what was supposed to be just another day and another routine mission. But on that day, Fox Company was ambushed.
#2 In a press conference two months after the incident, Colonel John W. Nicholson said: I stand before you today, deeply,...
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#1 I am afraid of my father, the brute of all brutes. I am afraid of what he will do to me when he visits me every few months. I hide behind the curtain cutting our room in half, on one side is the kitchen and on the other, the family bedroom.
#2 I once heard that a roofer who passed by my parents' house heard a child screaming. He saw Father beating his terrified little...
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Get the Summary of Liza Mundy's Code Girls in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of codebreaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless...
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Book Preview: #1 In the early twentieth century, the United States had around 5,000 vaudeville theaters. They were controlled by a small group of moguls who were extremely wealthy and sought only to maximize profit. They intimidated their competitors into submission.
#2 The Orpheum circuit had been Keith-Albee's largest competitor, with theaters in Calgary, Champaign, Davenport, Decatur,...
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#1 I was a precocious snoop. I lived in Kigali, Rwanda, and was a regular child. I was nicknamed Cassette. I repeated everything I saw or heard, including that my sister Claire, who was nine years older than me, wore shorts under her skirt and played soccer instead of doing family errands after school.
#2 I wanted to be fed ice cream and pineapple cakes. I wanted to...
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#1 The fleet that sailed to Constantinople in 1203 was the largest ever assembled. It consisted of over 450 warships, merchant ships and transports. The backbone of the fleet was 50 galleys, while behind them came hundreds of transports and merchant ships.
#2 The Fourth Crusade was a papal attempt to escape the lay motive, and attempt to establish the old direction of...
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Get the Summary of Dick North's Mad Trapper of Rat River in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mad Trapper of Rat River" by Dick North is a detailed account of the enigmatic figure Albert Johnson, known as the "Mad Trapper," and the intense manhunt that unfolded in the Canadian Arctic during the winter of 1931-1932. The narrative begins with the Snowshoes brothers' encounter with Johnson and follows the subsequent...
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Book Preview: #1 Jack Kent Cooke was the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, and he was a snarling bully behind closed doors. However, he was a financial genius when it came to buying struggling radio stations and magazines, and turning them around and selling them for large profits.
#2 In 1966, the Los Angeles Lakers played in the Los Angeles Sports Arena, a seven-year-old facility...
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#1 In 1492, Christopher Columbus set out to find the westward winds that would take him to Asia. Instead, he landed in the New World and discovered the Americas. His discoveries would have huge geopolitical ramifications.
#2 Columbus's discoveries would have huge geopolitical ramifications. It was merchant-investors working in tandem with state-building monarchs who...
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Book Preview:#1 On May 24, 2018, retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinski was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Donald Trump.
#2 The Medal of Honor is the highest award for military service. It was initially established by the Navy during the Civil War, and has been awarded to soldiers who fought for the Union.
#3 On March 4, 2002, Slabinski led a team of six SEALs up Takur...
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#1 Poggio was a baffling figure to those who saw him pass. He was barely legible, and what mattered was what you belonged to or even whom you belonged to.
#2 The Roman world was a society of retainers and armed guards. The stranger, simply attired, rode in the company of a single companion. When they stopped at inns, the companion did the ordering, and when the master...
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#1 The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the declaration of war by Serbia on Austria-Hungary. It quickly spread across Europe, and the government officials in Austria decided that the only response was war.
#2 Conrad, the army chief of staff, was as stubborn as Franz Ferdinand. He had been advocating the destruction of Serbia since the First Bosnian...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Gordis's Saving Israel in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Saving Israel" examines the evolving relationship between young Jews and the state of Israel, highlighting a generational shift in attitudes. While older Jews view Israel's potential destruction as a personal tragedy, younger Jews, who grew up with Israel as an established reality, often struggle with its portrayal as an occupier...
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#1 In 1124, King Louis VI of France received word that his country was about to be invaded by the German emperor and English king. He hurried to the Abbey of Saint-Denis, and prayed to Saint Denis for the safe deliverance of France.
#2 The Abbey of Saint-Denis, the religious capital of France, was not the most impressive looking building. It housed many relics,...
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Get the Summary of Sharri Markson's What Really Happened in Wuhan in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Tech behemoths seized the internet, restricting and silencing debate in the most blatant manner they could imagine. In spite of this, it is unavoidable that a covert laboratory in Wuhan was involved in dangerous research involving the genetic manipulation of bat-coronaviruses.
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#1 Tiberius Gracchus was the son of Scipio Africanus and Cornelia, and he was a great military leader. He was also present at the siege of Carthage, where he watched the city burn.
#2 After the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic was flooded with treasure, which some senators feared would lead to moral degradation. However, this only affected the small group of noble...
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