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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 The rock star lifestyle is glamorous, but it also comes with a lot of waiting around. I was waiting for my driver to arrive with my Lamborghini, but he was late because of all the traffic accidents.
#2 I take pride in being early. I am always early. I've always been early for everything I've ever done. I thought it was hilarious when Mötley fired me the first time...
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#1 I went to rehab in 2009 to get clean from alcohol, pills, and grass. I was assigned a therapist named Dr. Harold Roberts, who asked me if I had ever considered myself a sex addict. I laughed and said no, but he continued to write down notes.
#2 I used to keep track of every single girl I ever met or slept with. I would write their names, phone numbers, and ratings....
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#1 The town of Breda, Holland, is a picture postcard of European charm and character. The van Gend en Loos building, which houses an upscale menswear shop, was originally built as a strategic fortress in the fourteenth century.
#2 The van Kuijk family could be traced back to the Middle Ages, when they were a wealthy, aristocratic family that ruled the small town of Hoogstraten....
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Get the Summary of Danny Trejo and Donal Logue's Trejo in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He's been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he's a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans alike. But the real...
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#1 I was not in Cedars in Los Angeles, but rather at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, a scrappy, hell-bent kid actor not yet touching his eighteenth birthday. This was no bad dream, but a living nightmare coming back to haunt me.
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Get the Summary of Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm in the-back-of-beyond Canada and an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search to his account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run, as the anchor of Weekend...
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Get the Summary of Sean Cannel and Benji Travis' YouTube Secrets in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In YouTube Secrets, online video experts Sean Cannell and Benji Travis draw on a decade of experience, as well as interviews with more than one-hundred top creators to give you a step-by-step YouTube success playbook.
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#1 I wanted to buy a house in Morocco, because I wanted to explore Islamic culture further. I knew that people in Western countries view Muslim nations as a monolithic bloc, but there are many cultural differences between them.
#2 In 2003, Sandy and I began saving money to buy a house in Fez. We planned to get ourselves back there without dipping into the escape fund....
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#1 The impact of globalization on southwest Virginia was not being documented by other media outlets. It was up to writers and photographers like Jared and me to paint the long-view picture of what had happened when, one after another, the textile and then the furniture factories closed and set up shop in Mexico, China, and Vietnam.
#2 The town of Galax, about seventy...
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#1 In 1997, Radiohead guitarist Thom Yorke had a mental breakdown. He left the band and escaped to find the right metaphor to express his anguish. He spent the next several years trying to disappear completely.
#2 Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead, found his fame to be a closed loop of omnipresent discomfort, perpetual awkwardness, and inescapable impotency.
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#1 I was born in London in 1936, and during the war years I was sent to different schools. My mother, a wonderful woman, battled on to operate her salon while my father was in the army.
#2 I had a difficult time respecting my father, who was a Willy Loman figure in Death of a Salesman. He was adorable, but also one of the funniest men I've ever known. He used to send...
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#1 I had little exposure to visual art as a child. I do remember, though, the day that my lack of knowledge of Claude Monet moved from a bedroom wall to the greater world. We had visited a Monet exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and my father and I had laughed at his paintings.
#2 I grew up thinking that Monet was a dull painter, and that he was just...
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Get the Summary of Brian Moylan's The Housewives in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled, their homes were echoey California villas, and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution,...
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#1 The Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, was bound for his future in 1862. He had been at the heart of the Windsor drama, rushing across England to reach the death chamber in the small hours and keep vigil at the bedside, but he had received no flicker of recognition from the dying man.
#2 The purchase of Sandringham was a prime example of the Prince Consort's high-pressure...
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#1 2020 was a difficult year for many, and it was easy to fall into a spiral of negativity. But we must remember that it was also a time of tremendous change and growth. We must use our creativity to imagine new futures that can inspire hope.
#2 I had to learn to ask questions of senior leaders to help develop my strategic intuition. I had people scowl at me for...
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#1 White is a difficult color to make. It can't be mixed together with other colors, and anything you add to it will only take it in one direction: toward black. It is also toxic.
#2 White has long been connected with money and power. Only the wealthy could afford to keep their fresh lace and linen cuffs, ruffs, and cravats pristine. This still holds true today.
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#1 When we stop trying to be original, we can embrace influence instead of running away from it. We can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and instead embrace influence.
#2 You are a mix of what you choose to allow into your life. You are the result of your influences. German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
#3 The artist is a collector....
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#1 I was born in 1933 in London, England. I suffered from rickets, a disease of poverty that causes weak bones, and I tottered up and down those stairs in surgical boots. I left school at 16 with a small handful of exam passes, and found and got sacked from a handful of menial office jobs.
#2 I learned early on that everything can have its good side for you personally....
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#1 In 1969, the Stooges released the definitive collection of punk classics with their eponymous debut album. The Stooges' songs punched, spat, and kicked against the pricks, but above all, they pointed an accusatory finger at the middle-class indulgences of the West Coast's hippy scenesters and the arty habits of Warhol's Factory fops.
#2 Following the divorce, Virginia...
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