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#1 The American Revolution changed Thomas Brown's life. He had arrived in the colonies in 1775 to start a plantation, and within nine months, he had built a fine house and acquired land. But when the revolution began, he chose to side with the British.
#2 After the attack, Brown was taken to Augusta, where the patriots forced him to sign the association. He then rallied...
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#1 The easiest and most obvious ditch to fall into is building your expectations on your idealized notions of the past. Many women yearn for a different cultural moment, and they try to recreate that culture within the walls of their own home or on the boards of their Pinterest account. This is not only understandable, but it can also be sweet and endearing.
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#1 I had a personal encounter with Yeshua when I was eighteen. He said, Many are called, but few are chosen. I knew what he meant, but I needed to ask if I was chosen. I was overwhelmed by the peace and presence of God, and I felt as if I were in a state of euphoria.
#2 The Messiah is a powerful, prophetic portrait of the person and work of Jesus, the Messiah. He has a human nature,...
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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 Lee's designer eye was evident the first time we met Princess Radziwill in 2014 in her Manhattan apartment on East 72nd Street. She had never had a place that didn't have great light, and she was always careful about clutter.
#2 Lee has always been attracted to French culture, and she has spent most of her life exiling herself from the Kennedys and their mystique....
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#1 The arrival of LAN-Chile Airlines flight 142 from Santiago was announced. Minutes later, a tall, fair-haired man in his thirties handed his passport to a U. S. Immigration official. The immigration official matched the traveler's name with a listing in the lookout book, and arrested him.
#2 The traveler, who was actually named Michael Townley, met with Captain...
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#1 I had considered never returning to Libya in 2011. I was in New York, walking up Broadway, when the proposition presented itself. It seemed perfect, a thought my mind had manufactured independently.
#2 I had gone to New York the previous month to lecture on novels about exile and estrangement. But I had an older connection to the city. My parents had moved to Manhattan...
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Get the Summary of Richard C. Schwartz's Introduction to Internal Family Systems in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Introduction to Internal Family Systems" by Richard C. Schwartz presents the IFS Model, a therapeutic approach that views the mind as composed of multiple "parts" with distinct roles and emotions. These parts include managers, firefighters, and exiles, each carrying burdens from past traumas and shaping...
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Get the Summary of Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman's The Bible Unearthed in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Bible Unearthed" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman explores the historical and archaeological context of the biblical narratives, particularly those of the patriarchs, the Exodus, and the monarchies of David and Solomon. The book scrutinizes the traditional chronology and historicity...
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Get the Summary of Ruth Scurr's Napoleon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Ruth Scurr's biography of Napoleon offers a detailed account of his life, from his early years to his final days in exile. It begins with his childhood in Corsica, where he developed a passion for gardening, a theme that recurs throughout his life. His military and political ascent is chronicled against the backdrop of the French Revolution,...
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#1 My mother and father were from a country that had disappeared. The murder of our country was a crime they would never forgive because they had been partly responsible for its invention. We were not exiles because nobody owed us anything. We were immigrants because in my Mother’s Day, the term implied that we were needed in whatever country we ended up in.
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Book Preview: #1 I was not normal, and I had terrible tantrums in Lille. I was a bundle of indomitable will, full of joy and rage. I was not afraid of anything. I wanted to go to school, but my parents did not want me to.
#2 Linda was a puppy that my father bought to protect the house. But she ended up sleeping in the kitchen because the nights were cold in northern France. She was...
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Get the Summary of Joanna Chiu's ‘China Unbound’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar "New Silk Road" global investment project to...
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#1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus.
#2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean...
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#1 The Romans were able to buy the Sibyl's books, which contained prophecies of great importance to the Romans. The Romans soon realized that only one woman could have written them—the Sibyl.
#2 The Roman Republic was very sensitive about the information in the books left behind by the exiled Tarquin. Only in the most dire situations was it allowed to consult the books,...
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#1 Vespasian was a friend of Suetonius Paulinus, who was accompanying him to the emperor's latest mandatory entertainment. Horace was once described as amusing yet serious, Vespasian said. The man was a literary genius. But tonight, we will be subjected to incessant drivel.
#2 The friendship between Suetonius Paulinus and Flavius Vespasian was unusual. Both men...
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Get the Summary of Kate Mascarenhas' ‘The Psychology of Time Travel’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first-time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project-and future of time travel-in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member...
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#1 The loss of our innate human potential is the greatest tragedy of all. We can help prevent this from happening to our children by teaching them to be curious and creative, and by raising them in a culture that supports those traits.
#2 I began to understand that when a child's development is arrested, feelings are repressed, and especially the feelings of anger and...
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Book Preview: #1 A priest named Tomislav Poglajen fled Croatia in 1943 and settled in Czechoslovakia. He knew how the Soviets thought, and he warned the Slovak Catholics that when the war ended, Czechoslovakia would fall to a Soviet puppet government.
#2 Father Kolaković knew that the passivity and clericalism of traditional Slovak Catholicism would not be able to withstand communism....
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#1 I was the quintessential class bully at St. Damian Elementary School. I took great pleasure in routinely tormenting my eighth-grade classmates. I was target of Jake's taunts that day.
#2 I had to fight Jake Reilly, a bully, in eighth grade. I didn't have any friends in Oak Forest, and I was alone against him and his cronies. I prayed one of the teachers would stop...
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