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In a series of episodes as fantastic as any fiction, a powerful civilization crumbled at the hands of a small band of warriors. Written by one of America's great historians, this gripping chronicle draws upon the firsthand accounts of eminent sixteenth-century captains and statesmen to relate the overthrow of the Inca empire by the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro's command. Author William H. Prescott's immensely readable narrative crackles with...
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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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The land of the free and home of the brave. How much do you know of the history of modern-day America? From its discovery by Columbus to its participation in World war 1 and 2 we can see that America has left its mark on the world. It hasn't all been plain sailing and nobody should dare say otherwise, but has it been a success? Jump into this concise retelling of American history and judge for yourself as we attempt to take a neutral approach to the...
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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 The stories of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett are among the most famous in New Mexico. They are the ghosts that come to haunt us. They were two of the greatest legends of the Old West, and their deaths were not justifiable. But their ghosts are still there.
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#1 On 28 March 1982, an Argentine naval task force left its base at Puerto Belgrano, about 300 miles south of Buenos Aires, to take part in a joint exercise with Uruguay. The Argentines were not thinking of a joint exercise with Uruguay, but instead set on executing Operation Azul to retake the Falkland Islands.
#2 The Falklands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic,...
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#1 John Wilkes Booth, 26 years old, was a member of a famous theatrical family. He was the son of the legendary actor and tragedian Junius Brutus Booth. His day began in the dining room of the National Hotel, where he was seen eating breakfast with Miss Carrie Bean.
#2 The Lincolns' timing was perfect. Good Friday was a slow night, and the news that the president...
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Book Preview: #1 The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a private summer resort located on the western shore of a mountain lake in Pennsylvania. On the afternoon of Thursday, May 30, 1889, the club was not quite ten years old, but with its gaily painted buildings, it looked spanking new.
#2 The storm that night was the worst rainfall that had ever been recorded for that part...
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Book Preview: #1 The Italian airship Italia crashed into the ice in 1928, and the crew members survived by huddling on the ice. They were never seen again.
#2 The Norwegian government was planning a rescue expedition, but Mussolini refused all assistance from Norway. The French government approved the use of a Latham twin-engine biplane equipped with pontoons, and a crew, to be put...
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Book Preview: #1 I stood on the frozen ocean 20 miles off Cape Mamen, Mackenzie King Island, and looked at the moon reflected in the sea ice. The sky had no depth because of the fullness of the moon, but stars shone brightly.
#2 The Arctic was seen as an inhospitable place by the Old World, but by the Greeks it was a land of rich lacustrine soils, gentle breezes, and fecund animals....
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#1 The Cuban exile community in Miami is where the chorus waits to comment on the action, and sometimes joins in. The exiled Fidel Castro Ruz came to Miami in 1955 for money to take the 26 Julio into the Sierra Maestra, and got it from Carlos Prío.
#2 The opera known as exile, which has been ongoing since 1959, has affected the way Miami has developed. The actions of...
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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 The Colorado Plateau is a 150,000-square-mile blister of land that rises across the dry confluence of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Its surface is incised with countless canyons and wrinkled into isolated mesas and mountain ranges that stand suddenly from the desert floor up to 13,000 feet in elevation.
#2 The Anasazi, a tribe that lived in the Colorado...
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#1 The Atlanta Race Riot occurred in September 1906, when a political battle between two candidates, Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, resulted in seven men being killed. The White family, who were mail carriers, were afraid to go out that day.
#2 As the sun set, gunshots were heard. For the first time in Atlanta's history, a riot call was sounded at 11 p. m. The next morning, newspapers...
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The book relates, for the first time, Cree and Inuit history as they encountered Hudson during his exploration of Hudson Bay. This information is based upon the information given to a pilot who flew many trips into the Hudson Bay area when he was transporting material to the various radar sites set up in Northern Canada during the late 1950's and 60's. The author learned this information from the pilot because both had an interest in Hudson and were...
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#1 Following the deportation of Marcus Garvey, the Black Star Line, and the Great Migration, black nationalism did not so much decline as it transformed into diminished versions of the movement.
#2 Earl and Louise's shared love for social justice drew them to an itinerant lifestyle that was only predictable by the frequency of childbirth and relocation. Their political activism in...
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#1 The war worked to radicalize and arm paramilitary groups in the post–Vietnam War period. It brought racism, military training, weapons proficiency, and a readiness to continue fighting home with many veterans.
#2 The Vietnam War was also distinct from other wars in that it was a conflict with a local, civil conflict and an enemy comprised of highly motivated...
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#1For over two hundred and fifty years, Europeans knew of the Pacific, but knew nothing about it. In September 1513, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sighting the sea from high ground.
#2 The Spanish showed little interest in the Chamorro people, but a different traveler, William Dampier, was interested in their...
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