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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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#1 The Scientific Revolution was the period in European history from the 14th to the 18th centuries when scientists began to question and change traditional beliefs. It was a rich tapestry of interwoven ideas and currents, a noisy marketplace of competing systems and concepts, and a busy laboratory of experimentation in all areas of thought and practice.
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#1 After his speech, Douglass was mobbed by the town's residents, who were excited to hear a black man speak so passionately about slavery. He was offered a job by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and began traveling around the country telling his story.
#2 Pleasant, as a girl, worked for the Husseys, a rich family on Nantucket. She learned to read and write,...
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Get the Summary of Mark Dice's “The True Story of Fake News” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
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#1 The first Allied airborne operation was codenamed Operation Colossus, and it took place in September 1943. It involved the British Special Air Service dropping into the heart of Mussolini's Fascist Italy to blow up the country's life-giving watercourse, the Aqueduct Pugliese.
#2 The mission was successful, and the aqueduct was destroyed. However, the mission commander,...
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#1 On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.
#2 The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men...
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#1 Ronald's life was turned upside down when his father died and his mother remarried. They moved constantly, which contributed to Ronald's lack of social skills. He was expelled from school at age 16 for his violent outbursts.
#2 Ronald's life was completely turned around when he entered military school. He thrived under the strict order and pressure of the school's...
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#1 We met a man named Longfellow, who was begging for money to give to homeless children. We gave him a dime, but he requested more pennies. We gave him six cents, and he began to sing: These be gray days and a sweet singer in Israel is to be highly honored.
#2 We were not really hungry, but we went to Odds and Ends anyway. The food was delicious, but atmosphere was...
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#1 The American South was facing a problem during the nineteenth century. The rich were realizing that the money wasn't in farming, but in factories and manufacturing goods. The plantation owners were in danger of being judged by their Northern counterparts.
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Book Preview:#1 The story of the debate between Lodge and Einstein began at the Royal Institution in London in 1894. Lodge was a professor of physics at the new University College of Liverpool, and his laboratory was housed in a space that had been the padded cell of a lunatic asylum. He seemed the embodiment of established British science.
#2 The Royal Institution became a sacred...
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#1 In 1960, two young California engineers boarded a plane to attend an electronics technical meeting in Philadelphia. The International Circuits Conference had recently been focused on radio, but that was changing as electronic systems began to find their way into consumer, business, and military equipment.
#2 Crane was hired to work on a new computer being built by...
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#1 The stories about the poison pills at NASA were jokes. There were no situations in which you would ever consider making an early exit, and even if there were, you had lots of easier ways to do it than poison pills.
#2 The people in Houston felt bad about all this, and came on the line to say so. Apollo 13, we've got lots and lots of people working on this. We'll get...
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#1 The meeting between Hitler and Mussolini took place on July 19, 1943, at Villa Gaggia, near the town of Feltre, some fifty miles north of Venice. It was Hitler's last trip to Italy. Mussolini had no interest in forming an alliance with Germany, but he was impressed by Hitler's consolidation of power and the remarkable turnaround of German industry.
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#1 Income taxes are a cost that reduces the amount of money suppliers receive for selling a product. This necessarily makes supply go down. A tax lowers a buyer's interest in buying, and the squeeze on profit margins from a tax makes producers sour on their own enterprises.
#2 The US income tax is an effective wealth tax that reduces supply and makes people lose interest...
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#1 On January 23, 1974, it was a Wednesday under the astrological sign of Aquarius. Richard Nixon was president, and he enhanced oil production in the United States by giving tax breaks to American oil companies. The national headlines were full of news about Watergate, the energy crisis, and space exploration.
#2 On January 23, 1974, in St. Augustine, Florida, the barometric...
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Get the Summary of Michael Bhaskar's Human Frontiers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers-from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheistic religion to quantum theory. And yet for the past few decades, apart from a rush of new gadgets and the explosion of digital technology,...
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#1 The broadcast was in the king's former living quarters, a small suite in the Augusta Tower. Windsor greeted the technicians affably and went into the sitting room, where the microphones stood on a table with a chair facing them and an evening newspaper beside them. He read a few lines aloud to test the voice levels.
#2 When the Duke of Windsor joined the Royal Family,...
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