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#1 Levon Brooks, a charming and optimistic man, had been working as a night guard at the Santa Barbara Club in Macon, Mississippi. The early '90s were the club's heyday. Old school blues musicians still played at the more established juke joints, but the Santa Barbara lacked authenticity.
#2 Brooksville, Mississippi, was a quiet old prairie town with old-fashioned homes...
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Imagine if you received personal letters from God? In VanWingerden's book, "Love Letters From God" is the experience that every modern Christian will need for their walk with God. These devotionals will help deepen your relationship with God and inspire to live your life to the testament of his love.
A collection of fictionalized letters based on the truths that we find in God's Word. Imagine if you received personal letters from God. This is one...
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#1 We expect writers to know the rules before they can write, and this expectation creates insecurity and inadequacy.
#2 The world is filled with writing that is no fun and not optional, and we can't eliminate the five-paragraph theme or the what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation essay, but we can invest them with meaning beyond the assignment affliction.
#3 The personal...
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#1 New York was a city that had made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable, as long as some more profitable use could be found for it. The past was not New York's concern; its concern was the future, and Progress.
#2 While New York was building taller and taller buildings, it was also suffering from a poor self-image. The city lacked the exuberance...
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#1 Abrana Cabral was born in 1893 in Mexico. She crossed into the United States at Laredo, Texas, on October 10, 1916, when she was nineteen years old and pregnant. She would have been traveling among businessmen and fellow immigrants.
#2 Abrana was probably traveling with her husband, Nicolas Ybarra, the father of the little girl growing inside her. Nicolas was also...
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Get the Summary of Dorian Gerhold's London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city's main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar...
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#1 The sun rose over the mountains as the noise of the artillery resumed. The 5th Marines had secured Hamhung and were now preparing to push the Chinese back across the border.
#2 Tim had struggled to stay warm enough to sleep, but he knew the soldiers were lucky that someone had studied the lessons of the first Korean War. The air base had been secured, and an engineering...
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#1 The Dark Ages, which lasted from around 400 to 1000 AD, were marked by a lack of intellectual life in Europe, as well as constant warfare and lawlessness.
#2 The Roman Empire was already in a state of collapse by 400, when the Visigoth Alaric led forty thousand Goths, Huns, and freed Roman slaves across the Julian Alps. In 410, his triumphant warriors swept down to...
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#1 I had been working for Network Plus since May 1994. I didn't plan on that, but I had been living in northern New Jersey all my life, so I wanted to be closer to home. The company was expanding.
#2 I had reached my personal goal of becoming the sales manager of an office. That was big for me. I was disappointed to find out that Network Plus already had a sales manager...
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#1 Abram Koval was one of the first residents of Sioux City, Iowa, to greet the newsboys who were selling the latest editions of Iowa newspapers. He was a carpenter who had worked on the Galveston Movement, a plan organized by prominent Jews in New York City to protect the rights of Jewish immigrants to enter America.
#2 Leaving Russia in 1910 meant escaping the pervasive...
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Get the Summary of Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman's Hitler's American Gamble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Hitler's American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler's intervention was not the inexplicable decision...
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Get the Summary of Plato's ‘The Republic’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Plato's ‘Republic’ is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the...
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#1 Isometrics is a form of exercise that involves using any unyielding object and pushing against it with all your might from different positions to tone and strengthen different groups of muscles. It was popular in the 1950s, but my father was a sportswriter for The Des Moines Register, and so he would do isometrics on airplanes to travel to Major League cities.
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#1 The Romans were not the only ones to adopt a polytheistic religion. The Jews in the West and the Zoroastrians in the East rejected these ideas about the gods, and instead adopted a morally demanding monotheism.
#2 Despite worshiping many gods, societies were not religiously diverse. The primary mission of pagan temples was to ensure that the gods favored...
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#1 The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was a prison for incarcerated women, which I visited as a child and now can't look at without hearing Jay Toole's voice describing the brutal physicals that doctors had inflicted upon her there.
#2 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they're also places of queer history and community.
#3 Prisons are...
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#1 The word Celtic is being used more and more in popular culture. It is being used to boost sales, and it is being used to promote the Celtic lifestyle.
#2 The word Celt is used to describe many things. It is used to describe a shared heritage among many political movements, and it is used to describe the people who live in the Celtic countries. But some archaeologists...
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#1 When Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for president in 1932, some doubted whether he had the strength to lead the country out of the worst economic depression in its history. But his physical courage buoyed his worried listeners, and he enjoyed himself on the campaign trail.
#2 Eleanor Roosevelt was not involved in the political discussions that took place around...
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#1 The photos showed fields, forests, and winding country roads, and seemed innocuous. But they showed missile trailers, which could carry nuclear warheads, next to a launcher erector.
#2 The Cuban missile crisis began when Kennedy received an initial intelligence briefing. His national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, knocked on the door of his bedroom, on the second...
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Get the Summary of Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Heart of Everything That Is in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Heart of Everything That Is" recounts the historic assembly of over 10,000 Native Americans at Fort Laramie in 1851, aiming to broker peace among tribes and with white settlers. As westward migration increased, conflicts arose, leading to a council to negotiate safe passage through Sioux lands. Notable...
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#1 The Rule of Law is a political phrase that refers to the idea that laws are stable, limited in scope, and apply to everyone, including the legislators who make them.
#2 The country was being run by a narcissistic oligarch with enormous financial conflicts of interest and extremely bad judgment, who obstructs justice and constantly lies.
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