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#1 Murder is the most heinous form of criminal homicide. It is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. In English, murder is legally defined as the willful murder of a human being.
#2 In Victorian London, even in a place as crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh, the sound of gunshots was a rare event. The marsh was a dark and sinister place,...
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#1 The dictator's approach to exercising power through a combination of bureaucratic institutions and patrimonial power inspired Yoram Gorlizki to coin the phrase neopatrimonial state. Stalin maintained daily, hands-on control over this central node of power.
#2 The Kremlin movie theater was a 7. 5-by-17-meter space with twenty seats, installed in 1934 where Russia's...
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#1 The Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled China from 1851 to 1908, came from one of the oldest and most prestigious Manchu families. The Manchus invaded China in 1644 and installed a new dynasty called the Great Qing. The Han and Manchus lived together peacefully, but the Manchus regarded themselves as Chinese.
#2 The ruling family, the Aisin-Gioros, produced a succession...
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#1 I remember the last thing I remember from the peaceful life was a fairy tale that my mother read us at bedtime. I always asked something from the Golden Fish: Golden Fish...Dear Golden Fish... I wanted to go to my grandmother for the summer and have papa come with us.
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#1 In 1884, my great-grandfather was looking for his servant Chen She. He had never lit his own pipe, and he wouldn't even know where to find it. He was beaten to the punch when Great-Grandfather entered the room and walloped him across the head.
#2 The concubines rise to flee. Great-Grandfather is worshipping at his Confucian altar when he tells the ancestral tablets...
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#1 Anne Boleyn's early life is very important to understand her character and motivations. She grew up in the religious climate of the Reformation and was taught to fight back against the questionable authority of Rome by the activists who started the movement.
#2 Anne's French education was responsible for the more radical belief system that would carry her through...
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#1 Wittgenstein was a PhD student at Cambridge in 1929. He had finished the book he had been writing as a prisoner of war in Italy in 1918, and he decided to turn his back on philosophy. He would support himself with honest work.
#2 The Tractatus is a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, written in 1922, that attempts to draw a boundary between the propositions in our language...
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#1 Eichmann told me about the killings using engine exhaust gas in the gas vans, and how they had been used in the East until now. He wanted to find a gas that was easy to produce and one that would require no special installations. He returned to Berlin to report to Himmler.
#2 The killing of the Russian POWs was continued, but no longer in Block 11 because it took...
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#1 After World War II, my grandmother, Oma, was one of the first people in her village to emerge from the underground cellar. She and her children moved back into the family house. As women in the village waited for their husbands and sons to return, they became alarmed when stories began circulating that the Soviets were raping and killing German women.
#2 The Americans arrived in...
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#1 The downfall of Rome was due to the fact that people, being fed by the State, ceased to have any responsibility for themselves or their children, and became a nation of wasters.
#2 The author once traveled home from Wales by train. The station was a village station just outside Cardiff, and I arrived early. I bought a cup of tea. It was a cold Saturday evening, and...
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#1 The fire in Venice happened on Monday evening, January 29, 1996. Archimede Seguso, an 86-year-old man who lived in Ca' Capello, a sixteenth-century house in the heart of Venice, waited patiently at the dinner table before joining his wife in the living room to lower the curtains.
#2 The Seguso family had been glassmakers since the 14th century. Archimede Seguso was...
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#1 I had come with backup, a low-ranking cop formerly assigned to the Anti—Organized Crime Task Force in Saitama Prefecture. Chiaki Sekiguchi. He was a little taller than I, almost as dark, thickset with deep-set eyes and a 1950s Elvis haircut. He was mistaken for a yakuza a lot.
#2 I was ready to leave my job, but not like this. I had only enough information to have gotten me into...
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#1 The night before Cook's voyage, James and Elizabeth Cook spent their last night together. They were married six years and were devoted to one another. They ached for those passionate, frantic nights of homecoming, but knew that his profession was one of the most dangerous on earth.
#2 The British were eager to explore the Southern Hemisphere, which included Antarctica....
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#1 Eugenia's mother, Devi, was a Russian aristocrat who was constantly on the move. She was never tied to a place or a religion, and she taught Eugenia the importance of independence and pursuing your passion.
#2 When Eugenia's mother disappeared, that was agonizing. Sasha had always dreamed of becoming an actress, but her father found the idea of his daughter...
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Book Preview: #1 This book is the story of Wilma Mankiller, but it is also the story of the Cherokee people and their indomitable courage. The chapters weave together the story of one Cherokee woman with the history of all the people of the Cherokee Nation.
#2 Wilma Mankiller, the woman of the house, is barefoot and wearing a brightly colored dress. She sips a mug of coffee on the...
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#1 In the 1970s, Baron Empain was the head of an industrial empire that comprised 174 companies and employed 136,000 workers in fields ranging from mining and metallurgy to banking, heavy construction, shipbuilding, armaments, and nuclear energy.
#2 France was experiencing a decade of political transition. The turmoil caused by the Paris-centered student uprising of...
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#1 I was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in February 1943. I was trained as a sMG gunner, and when I completed the training six months later, I was sent to the Eastern Front near Voroshilovsk, Ukraine.
#2 The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point for the German army. It marked the loss of 250,000 men with all their armament and equipment. The last hope was...
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#1 In December 2020, Ukraine's president was a TV actor who was in a music video from 2009. The country was dealing with a lot of controversies at the time, and he personally oversaw the communications team's output.
#2 Ukraine is a basket case. Its politics are a mess, its economy is in shambles, and its society is splintering into two camps — those who are more...
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#1 The Prince of Wales was the first royal sex symbol of the modern age, and he was adored by Americans. He was the most glittering jewel in the royal crown, and he was on display.
#2 The king's seemingly endless and arduous imperial tours were a golden opportunity to reinforce the relevance of the monarchy. He visited some forty-five countries and travelled an estimated...
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