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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 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 men in the canoes were skilled, but they knew disaster was just a moment away. They were navigating among the islands of wbanakik, a beautiful but dangerous edge of the world.
#2 The Wapánahki were not a unified people. The languages spoken by those living far away were similar but subtly different from those of Ktə̀hαnəto and his relatives. They knew that...
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#1 In 1797, a boarding party from the British frigate the HMS Rose went searching for four Marblehead sailors who had hidden themselves in the forepeak, a small space near the main hold. When they refused to yield, the British lieutenant attempted to push them around. One of the Marbleheaders stabbed him in the neck with a harpoon, and he died soon after.
#2 John Adams,...
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#1 The negotiator had to establish trust with the suspect. He had to make him believe that everything was going to be okay, even though he knew that the FBI was prepared to take down the suspect at any moment.
#2 Charlie and his family went into the woods again on Saturday, April 2. Charlie built a simple lean-to. They made their way to a nearby country store, where...
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Book Preview: #1 The author was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement by a man who said he had invented an electronic machine that sharpened blunt razor blades. The author was suspicious, but he was curious to hear the man's story.
#2 The Stone Age was a time when metal was extremely rare and highly valued, since the only sources of it were copper and gold, which occur naturally...
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#1 The boys set a fire at the Gerrity Lumber Company in Boston, which was investigated by the police. They targeted a large, tall single-story brick building. The pair walked to the front of the structure, where they found the large overhead door open. They entered the building and planted two devices.
#2 The fire was visible from a half-mile away, and flames were soaring...
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#1 The first guest to use Airbedandbreakfast. com was Amol Surve, a graduate of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He arrived at his rental late in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 16, 2007. The apartment was spacious, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a comfortable living room.
#2 Brian Chesky grew up in a middle-class family in Niskayuna, a...
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#1 The earthquake in Ecuador in 1906 was the most powerful ever recorded by the machines of man. It destroyed the island port of Tumaco, and killed as many as 2,000 people.
#2 There were several large earthquakes in the Caribbean in the 1970s, and they did not kill anyone. But they did trigger a burst of smaller earthquakes, which went on for two or three weeks....
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#1 The story of John Johnston, an Irishman, and his Ojibwe wife, Green Prairie Woman, is a passage in the history of mixing blood between Europeans and Indians.
#2 The Hudson's Bay Company, an English corporation created through royal charter, began operations in 1670. The decades-long conflict between European nations and Native Americans spread from New England to...
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#1 I wrote an autobiography that was focused on the way I had been shaped by movements and campaigns in communities of struggle. I did not want to write a conventional autobiography in which the heroic subject offers lessons to readers.
#2 The American canon of literature has been contested before, and if one considers the autobiography of Malcolm X, which has clearly...
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#1 Azeema was a sniper, and her life and the lives of her teammates hinged on her ability to bide her time and know just the right moment to shoot. She was under siege in Kobani, a Kurdish town near the Syrian-Turkish border.
#2 The Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Syria, and they have been seeking their own land since the Treaty of Sèvres promised them a state...
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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 Gallatin earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, and lasted just under a minute. It sent an entire mountainside crashing down at 100 miles per hour on the lower end of Rock Creek Campground. The slide flowed from south to north, falling more than 1,000 feet.
#2 The Painter family of Ogden, Utah, had started the day in Yellowstone. Ray, 47, owned a gas station on...
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#1 Lourdes, the mother, is leaving her son, Enrique, behind in Honduras. She cannot afford to bring him with her to the United States, so she leaves him behind.
#2 The journey is hard for the Mexicans, but even harder for the Central Americans. They must make an illegal and dangerous trek up the length of Mexico. They are hunted by corrupt police, bandits, and gang...
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#1 Morris, a member of the First Continental Congress, spoke of the future of the country during the summer of 1777. He spoke of a waterway that would span the wilderness of upper New York, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
#2 The American war for independence was won in 1783, and Americans began heading west to find land of their own. The trail through...
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#1 Penn State University, the largest and most prestigious public university in Pennsylvania, was also the most inaccessible. It was a small town with a big university.
#2 Penn State University, the largest public university in Pennsylvania, was also the most inaccessible. It was a small town with a big university.
#3 The Penn State University library was the most inaccessible....
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#1 Before the Civil War, the Tug River Valley was largely ignored by the outside world. There were no roads, no rails, no schools, and no churches there. The transcontinental telegraph system, which crossed the country in 1861, bypassed the area.
#2 Anse had set out to hunt the last known stag in Virginia, but when he reached the top of the ridge, the buck had vanished....
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#1 The world is still recovering from the attack on America on September 11, 2001. The American president rallied his nation's support with a Let's get the bastards! He then ordered the invasion of Afghanistan against an unclear enemy.
#2 In the story of Troy, Paris, the prince of Troy, visited by three goddesses who handed him a golden apple, asking him to choose the...
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#1 Dodge City was a gateway to the Great American Desert, and it was there that the American West and Manifest Destiny were symbolized. It was a reservoir of tall tales, yet many of the facts are equally if not more fascinating.
#2 The first explorers of America were looking for a land to settle, and they found it in Kansas, which was right in the middle of the Louisiana...
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