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#1 We Love Our Country was translated by women at a feminist gathering in Copenhagen. The reading generated a discussion on the effects of the domestication of the witch and the concealment of the extermination of thousands of women in European history and culture.
#2 The sixteenth and seventeenth-century witch hunts serve as a reminder that capitalist development was...
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#1 The act of dieting promotes weight gain in a variety of age groups. The body's attempt to survive the dieting process is to slow down your metabolism, destroy your muscle tissue, and become more hungry and preoccupied with food.
#2 The war on obesity has created bigger health problems, as high-quality studies show that being at a lower weight does not confer better...
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#1 I am an infantry officer right out of school, which makes me dangerous. I can make a mess with two-thousand-pound bombs. I am the terror of plastic targets. I want to destroy al-Qaeda, which is easy to demonize with their werewolf faces and medieval ways.
#2 I was about to break the news to my wife, Elizabeth, that I was going to Afghanistan. She was shocked. She...
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#1 The Japanese admiral who was in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the assault on Clark Field in the Philippines in 1944, was sent to Manila to fix the tactical situation by whatever means available. He focused on carriers, which were his biggest threat.
#2 On October 25, 1944, nine planes flew from Mabalacat and headed east over the vast and...
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#1 I was appointed First Lieutenant of the Vega, a World War I destroyer, which was being converted to anti-aircraft and antisubmarine escort duties. The start was in the best traditions. The commissioning ceremony went well, but the rain began to fall as soon as the official inspection of the ship was finished.
#2 The ship's company and the dockyard workers, who were...
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#1 15 Monroe Street was an unremarkable building in an unremarkable town. It was the home of Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, who was just twelve when he entered the United States through Ellis Island in 1904 with his mother and sisters.
#2 The most life-changing event of the young couple's lives occurred in 1914 when Dolly became pregnant. The local doctor delivered...
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Book Preview: #1 In the early 1970s, British photo retoucher Robert Stevens moved to south Florida to work for the National Enquirer. He was known for his excellent work, but he also tended to get the Enquirer sued. On September 27, 1975, Stevens and his wife drove to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit their daughter. He began having convulsions five hours later.
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#1 The occupying Persians began the laborious task of destroying the stone shrines and temples and torching homes in Athens. They finished off a few Athenian holdouts still barricaded on the Acropolis. Meanwhile, Xerxes drew up his fleet nearby at the Athenian harbor of Phaleron.
#2 Xerxes' invasion of Greece was a textbook example of momentum and glory, as the king...
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#1 When I was told that my father might not have long to live, I flew down to visit him. I forgave him for the years of bitterness I had harbored against him, and we were reconciled just hours before his death.
#2 Death is a reality that cannot be avoided. It must be dealt with, and the cycle of life and death reminds us that YHWH remains Lord overall. The questions...
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Get the Summary of Jackson MacKenzie's Psychopath Free in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Have you ever been in a relationship with a psychopath? Chances are, even if you did, you would never know it. Psychopaths are cunning charmers and master manipulators, to the point where you start to accept the most extreme behaviors as normal...Even if it hurts you.
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#1 The problem of humanization is a concern that arises from the recognition of dehumanization. Dehumanization, which is the distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human, occurs within history, but it is not an historical vocation.
#2 True generosity is about fighting to destroy the causes of false charity. False charity is the oppression that forces the fearful...
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#1 The end of American slavery was a process that took decades to complete. It began at the war's outset when slaves, eager to seize the opportunity presented by the presence of northern armies, began to seek refuge behind Union lines. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was the crucial step in the process.
#2 Lincoln was not an abolitionist,...
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#1 The Essex was one of a fleet of more than seventy Nantucket whaleships in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in 1819. With whale-oil prices steadily climbing, the village of Nantucket was on its way to becoming one of the richest towns in America.
#2 The Essex was a ship that had a reputation for being lucky. In July 1819, a comet appeared in the night sky, and islanders...
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#1 The debate between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke was over who had discovered the Source of the Nile River. Burton claimed it was Lake Victoria, while Speke claimed it was Lake Tanganyika.
#2 The public was excited to see Burton and Speke, as their encounters with Livingstone had been a balm for the wounds of the Crimean War, the ill-fated Charge of...
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#1 The Lincoln myth is that he invaded the South to free the slaves. However, Lincoln never said this, and most certainly did not believe it. He was perfectly willing to see Southern slavery persist past his own lifetime as long as the Southern states remained in the Union and continued to pay federal taxes.
#2 The second myth is that Lincoln saved the Union. In...
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#1 The British East India Company, a trading company, invaded and destroyed the Indian civilization of which Durant was so astonished and outraged. They were carelessly destructive of art and greedy for gain.
#2 The British East India Company subjugated a vast land through the power of their artillery and the cynicism of their amorality. They displaced nawabs and maharajas...
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Get the Summary of John Glatt's Golden Boy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and Deerfield Academy, summers in a sprawling seaside mansion in the Hamptons....
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#1 The echidnas are smart enough, and their prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain used for complex reasoning and decision making, is the biggest in relation to body size of any mammal. They have never used their intelligence to destroy anything yet, but they could if they get tired of the incompetence of domesticated humans.
#2 The war between good and evil is actually...
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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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Book Preview: #1 In 1945, the American heavy bombers came to German city of Straubing and destroyed a third of the city. The Americans then handed out food stamps to the German citizens, who were mostly silent.
#2 As Franz walked down the street, he saw people standing in line to get work. The brickyard was farther down the street, and the veteran he had seen every day for the past...