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#1 Cortés had staked everything he had on this expedition. He had incurred significant debt building the ships and stocking them with provisions. His hope to get off to a good start was slightly compromised when his patron, the fat hidalgo Diego Velázquez, attempted to thwart his departure.
#2 When the conquistadors arrived on the island, they found that the local...
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Get the Summary of Elizabeth Letts's The EightyDollar Champion in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Eighty-Dollar Champion" by Elizabeth Letts tells the heartwarming story of Harry de Leyer and Snowman, a horse he rescued from slaughter. Harry, a Dutch immigrant and riding instructor at the Knox School, purchased the malnourished gelding for a mere eighty dollars. Despite Snowman's humble beginnings and Harry's...
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#1 Sarai is the reason we have a story about Hagar, Sarah's maid, in the Bible. She was supposed to be in charge of getting the wife pregnant, but somehow this didn't happen. Hagar ends up having a child by Abram. Sarah becomes pregnant, but before she knows it, she is visited by an angel who demands she sleep with Abram before he has a child (he's old! He's going to...
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#1 On September 15, 1779, the French minister to the United States, Chevalier de la Luzerne, arrived at Fishkill, New York, to meet with George Washington. Washington was the one steering the boat.
#2 When Washington was 11 years old, his brother offered him a way out. He could be appointed to a British naval vessel and escape the possessive clutches of his widowed mother.
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#1 The town of Ada, Oklahoma, is a mix of small-town southerners and westerners. The people are friendly and welcoming, and the quarter-horse bidness is a source of local pride.
#2 Ada, Mississippi, was a small town with a large county surrounding it. The town was home to many nightclubs and bars, and it was here that Debbie Carter, a local girl, spent much of her time.
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#1 The British Secret Service has been accused of being heartless and incompetent many times over the years. The phrase unhappily, East Germany had been part of my accuser's parish in the days when we had worked together goes through my mind.
#2 The lunch with Oldfield did not go as smoothly as I had hoped. Over the hors d'oeuvres, Oldfield extolled the ethical standards...
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Get the Summary of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres...
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#1 The Battle of Tarawa was the first major battle the United States fought in the Pacific theater. It was also the first time many of the young Marines had ever been in combat, and they were shocked by the violence and brutality of the enemy.
#2 The landing on Tarawa was the most haunting memory of World War II for many veteran correspondents.
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#1 The American anticipation of a new war between the United States and the USSR was reinforced by the balance of forces in Europe in the 1950s. The Soviets' advantage in troop strength and geographical position gave it powerful leverage in Eastern Europe.
#2 The use of Nazis and collaborators in intelligence programs has left a mark on life in the United States...
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Book Preview: #1 In the mid-1970s, the four-lane Black Horse Pike was the main route between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore, surrounded by farms and farmers' markets. There were a few billboards.
#2 My mother and her children, Cathy and Stephen, escaped to New Jersey from my father. They lived in a half-house in a clearing in the woods, not fit to live in. Yet, this was their brand-new...
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Original book introduction: In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump...
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#1 Witold, a second lieutenant in the cavalry reserves, was ordered to gather his men and deliver them to the barracks in the nearby town of Lida for loading onto troop transports. He had trained 90 volunteers through the summer, but most of them were peasants who had never seen action or fired a gun in anger.
#2 Witold was a man of his time and social class. He disliked...
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#1 The relationship between the native peoples in the United States and the European settlers was initially friendly. However, as the settlers were able to achieve some level of security, they began to spread and take the land they wanted.
#2 The American colonists and the natives were never safe from each other, as the colonists would break their peace treaties...
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Book Preview: #1 The author's family crest is an ostrich swallowing an iron horseshoe, symbolizing their ability to digest anything, in honor of his mother's ability to bring out the fun in him and balance him out.
#2 I was brought up by nannies, who were in charge of the ins and outs of daily life. My mother did not wash or dress me or my sister Carey, nor did she feed us or put...
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#1 I love you, and because I love you, you're about to receive a hundred thousand dollars' worth of psychological therapy for the low price of this book. I didn't get to Oz, but I did see pink horses a couple times due to low blood sugar from stupid cleanses.
#2 The author went to a nutritionist who went by Dr. Bob. His philosophy was that you should eat only food...
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#1 The steppe region of Russia is light brown in color and is desolate except for a few rectangular patches of cultivated farmland. It has been that way for centuries. But on August 5, 1942, a malevolent presence intruded on the timeless scene. From the west, came giant pillars of dust.
#2 The German Sixth Army was far from total mechanization. It still relied on horses...
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#1 Augustus was an icon and a mystery. He ended a century of revolution and brought down the Roman Republic, and replaced it with the empire of which he was the first emperor. He found the perfect number two: a partner to serve as his general and administrator without threatening his power.
#2 Octavian was born in 63 BC. His father, Gaius Octavius, came from a family...
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#1 Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, the world's wealthiest and most famous painter, climbed onto the rooftop balcony of his mansion in Poissy in 1863. He had spent most of the previous two decades living in the Grande Maison, a grandiose house with clusters of balconies, dormer windows, and pink-bricked chimneys.
#2 Meissonier's success in the auction rooms was accompanied...
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#1 I dreamed of first love, a dark-haired girl with pale skin. I loved Mary Foley in her pink cardigan, smiling. For her, I would ride my invisible horse to the doors of Wild West saloons, shoot at Nazi stormtroopers, and score the winning goal for Ireland in the final moment of extra time.
#2 The house where Mrs. Prunty lived was the ruin of a small cottage where Mrs....
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#1 Horses are prey animals that developed their view of the world and their survival skills on the plains of North America and Europe. They are nervous because they are prey animals, and they feel vulnerable.
#2 We live in a world that is constantly triggering our souls. The pace at which we live is not enough time for us to sigh and come back to ourselves. We are constantly...
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