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Get the Summary of Giles Tremlett's Espana in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Espana" by Giles Tremlett offers a comprehensive exploration of Spain's rich and tumultuous history. It begins with the mythological origins tied to Hercules and the deep history of human habitation evidenced by the Atapuerca archaeological site. The narrative progresses through the cultural influences of the Phoenicians and Greeks, the...
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#1 Picasso and his friend Carles Casagemas arrived in Paris from Barcelona in mid-October 1900. They were tasked with seeing the Exposition Universelle, which was scheduled to close on November 12. They had little time to dally if they wanted to see it.
#2 In Paris, the engineers and construction workers were working on the city's new underground Métro system....
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#1 The launch of the battleship Bismarck was celebrated by the German people, but Hitler made it clear that Germany would not be spending more resources on its fleet than necessary.
#2 Hitler did not want war with the British, and he knew that building a fleet to rival the Royal Navy would provoke them. He told the admirals that he was the boss. The British Naval...
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#1 A day in Amsterdam begins with me leaving my apartment with my toddler son in my arms, strapping him into his seat between the handlebars of my bicycle, and setting off through the quiet, generally breezy streets of our neighborhood.
#2 Amsterdam's tolerance of vice is made apparent when you visit the neighborhood surrounding the school. The streets are lined with...
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#1 I received a postcard from my brother, Guy, who was living in Thailand. The picture on the card was mesmerizing. It looked like paradise. In the foreground, it was easy to imagine the photographer peering out from behind a clump of vibrant greenery.
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#1 Different societies see landscapes differently. For example, an Elizabethan traveler would describe his homeland in terms of cities, towns, ports, great houses, bridges and roads. A contemporary description will mention overcrowding and the problems of population expansion.
#2 The Elizabethan landscape is different from the landscape that you see today. It is vast...
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#1 Portugal is a hidden gem in Western Europe that is less touristed than other countries. Its traditional culture is preserved in the fishing town of Porto and the culturally rich capital of Lisbon. While it has experienced some economic success due to its membership in the European Union, it is still a good budget option compared to the tourist-mobbed destinations of Northern Europe.
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#1 Florence in 1433 was a city of squares and towers, of busy, narrow, and twisting streets, of fortress-like palaces with massive stone walls and overhanging balconies, of old churches with geometrical patterns on their façades, and of abbeys and convents.
#2 The city was very congested around the stone bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, which spanned the Arno at...
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#1 The town of Pécs, Hungary, is a good place to start the history of Habsburg Europe. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, and it has a frontier atmosphere. The town was a wine colony in the fourth century, but was destroyed by Hun raiders in AD 400.
#2 The area that would become the southern zone of the Habsburg Empire was...
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#1 Anne Lister was a girl who was different from the other girls at her boarding school. She wanted to learn more than was customary for girls her age, and she was called the Solomon of the school.
#2 Anne's childhood was extremely poor. She had little money, and her father did not spend it wisely. She spent her early years in the Yorkshire Wolds, and her later years...
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#1 The secret service had to build upon slim prewar beginnings. One reliable agent was Arthur George Owens, who was working for a high-technology firm with business interests in Germany. He was an electrical engineer, chemist, and inventor, and his abilities in battery technology opened doors for him on the Continent.
#2 The German intelligence agency, the Abwehr, recruited...
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#1 In 1831, Anne Lister began settling into a new apartment overlooking the sea at 15 Pelham Crescent in Hastings. She was pleased to discover a comforting piece of Yorkshire Parkin in her packing box.
#2 Anne Lister had been introduced to the Hobarts and Stuart de Rothesays in 1829 by Vere's late aunt, Sibella Maclean. They were important society people, and Vere's...
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#1 The modern visitor to the Highland areas of Scotland encounters the Picts through their spectacular artistic legacy. They made their first appearance in the historical record in the third century, when their raiding activities troubled the authorities of Roman Britain. They vanished from the pages of history in the eighth century.
#2 The king-list is a source of data...
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#1 The English longbowman of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and early fifteenth centuries was capable of destroying ranks of enemy soldiers with a simple bow. The Scots were no match for the laconic English bowman.
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#1 Lauzun, while having a reputation as a notorious rake, would also become one of France's most famous soldiers. His courage under fire in Corsica would lead to the command of a prestigious regiment. In 1779, he would command an expedition that briefly captured Senegal for France.
#2 The military culture of Lauzun's Europe was very different from our own. It was an...
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#1 The story of human beings in Ireland is very short. The first evidence of people living in Ireland goes back only to c. 8000 BC, to the era known as the Mesolithic or middle stone age. The first Irish settlers, at sites such as Mount Sandel in Co. Derry and Lough Boora in Co. Offaly, seem to have depended on wild boar and fish for their non-plant foods.
#2 The island...
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#1 The women in this study were from families headed by lesser landed gentlemen, attorneys, doctors, clerics, merchants, and manufacturers. They were not pretentious about their aristocracy, but they did not pretend to be members of the fashionable cosmopolitan beau monde.
#2 The Georgian social stratum has not been well served by recent historical investigation. The...
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#1 The visit that the Habsburg heir and his wife, Sophie, paid to Sarajevo lasted only an hour, but the drama of those 60 or 70 minutes has revolutionized the course of modern history.
#2 The view of Sarajevo from the southwest is a lovely one. The valley of the Miljacka, a shallow torrent that cuts the town in two, narrows at its eastern outskirts to a rugged...
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Get the Summary of Kermit Lynch's Adventures on the Wine Route in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Adventures on the Wine Route" by Kermit Lynch chronicles his explorations and discoveries in the French wine industry. Lynch's journey begins in the Loire Valley, where he develops a fondness for the region's red wines, particularly Cabernet Franc from Chinon and Bourgueil. He is surprised by a Sancerre rouge and impressed...
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