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#1 Mary Sears was a planktonologist who was sent to Peru in December 1941 to help save the country's guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was unable to collect any specimens because the men on the boat did not want to let her go to sea.
#2 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was...
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#1 The Anglo-American Establishment was a plan drawn up by three men in London in 1891 to take over foreign policy control in Britain and the United States. It aimed to renew the Anglo-Saxon bond between Great Britain and the United States, and expand the British Empire's influence.
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#1 America is facing an epidemic of gun-related suicides, accidents, and even homicides and police killings. The more guns a society has, the more gun deaths it will experience.
# America was founded on racism and slavery, and both were made possible by the gun. Without guns, neither would have been as easy to accomplish.
#3 The history of America is soaked...
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#1 On 9 April 1940, German troops invaded Denmark and Norway. The Luftwaffe squadrons stationed in Denmark were ordered to cover the troop movements planned for the invasion of Norway. The British tried to disrupt this action by constant day-and-night air attacks.
#2 The pilots of Falk's wing began intensive training in blind flying. They were half-hearted at first,...
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#1 The battle continued to wind down as the sun set. The smaller enemy began to probe us using three-to six-person elements. I was scanning the intersection twenty-five meters to my left and then back to the corner of the alley about twenty-five meters to my right front. It was quiet-too quiet.
#2 During a raid, I shot two of the gunmen dead, and the third fled down...
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#1 The pressure of sniper school is mostly mental. You have to be in top physical condition, but you also have to absorb complex skill sets and execute them flawlessly at a machine-gun pace under conditions of constantly increasing intensity.
#2 In the field, your life can depend on making the shot. Out here on the range, it was just our careers on the line. We had to...
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#1 The Liberation complex is when prisoners of Hitler's fallen Reich, who were expected to be grateful and cooperative, were instead exultant and revengeful. It was not limited to DP camps, but was also applied to entire countries newly liberated.
#2 The Dutch women were in a state of frenzy, like teenage girls at a rock concert. They couldn't help themselves. They were...
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#1 The Brigadier was casting a disapproving eye in my direction. I was writing a letter to my brother Peter, who was serving in the military, and I was unblooded. I was nervous about the mission, but I had to keep my composure and ensure that the men around me were prepared for what lay ahead.
#2 The operation was postponed due to the bad weather, but the flotilla remained...
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#1 The Napoleonic Revolution was the result of a number of developments, military and nonmilitary, that all occurred at the same time. Napoleon was responsible for almost none of these developments. Yet he was the best general of all time.
#2 The Napoleonic Revolution was not strictly about technology, but it was about the rational integration of technology with systematic...
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#1 The German invasion of Belgium began on 5 August, when 2nd and 4th Cavalry Divisions crossed the Meuse River at Liège and headed toward the Dutch-Belgian border. They encountered many Belgian troops who were dug in east and south-west of Tirlemont. The Germans decided to outflank them to the north, and the two divisions were temporarily disengaged and pulled back...
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#1 On May 25, 1942, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto hosted a party to celebrate the upcoming Japanese invasion of America. The drinks were warm, and the cups were presented to Admiral Yamamoto by the Emperor himself. Victory was in the air.
#2 Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral, understood American production. He knew that Japan was overmatched, and that it was only a matter of...
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Book Preview: #1 The most enduring and tenacious iteration of America's World War II myth is the decription that the United States went to war to liberate the world from fascism and tyranny.
#2 The first tenet of American exceptionalism, which claims that the consequences of our intervention are equivalent to the causes we fight for, ignores the timing and proximate catalyst of our...
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#1 The Art of War, written over two thousand years ago by a Chinese warrior-philosopher, is still the most influential book of strategy in the world today. It applies to competition and conflict on every level from the interpersonal to the international.
#2 The Art of War is the premier classic of the Chinese science of strategy. It was written over two thousand...
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Book Preview: #1 Iceal Gene Hambleton had ached to get away from the listless plains of Illinois his entire life. But he was born into a farming family, and his father discouraged dreaming in him and his brothers.
#2 Gene, the eldest son of Iceal Sr., grew up to be a very different person than his father. He was funny, mischievous, and defiant, and he loved pranks. He grew up resenting...
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#1 Each nation organized its armed forces to fit the strategies that it expected to use to secure its intended national objectives. The pre-war development of artillery techniques and technology reflected these assumptions.
#2 The Germans had planned to attack France head-on in 1870, but the French had upgraded their defenses and increased their army size to fill...
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#1 The two men were disguised as goatherds, and they were sent to check out the airbase. They didn't take into account the inate stubbornness of the animals, especially when they were hungry. The guard grew suspicious when the two men didn't understand him.
#2 Lassen and his men were dropped off at the start of the operation by a British warship, and they took out some...
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#1 The story of modern cancer research begins with the sea urchin. In the early 1900s, German scientist Theodor Boveri turned to sea urchin eggs to answer one of the central questions in biology: how are the instructions for making a new organism passed from one generation to the next.
#2 The first scientist to recognize that cancer is a disease of bad information was...
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#1 Simo Häyhä was a Finnish farmer who fought in the Winter War. He was known as the Snow Hunter, as he enjoyed snow skiing, hunting, and shooting. He died on April 1, 2002 in the Kymi Institute for Disabled War Veterans, in the town of Hamina.
#2 Simo Häyhä, a member of the Rautjärvi Civil Guard, was a top-notch marksman who won several prizes in Civil Guard regional...
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#1 In 1913, it was Belgium where the force fields of European integration most overlapped. The medieval Flemish city of Ghent hosted the Exposition Universelle et Internationale, as had Brussels a few years before.
#2 The age of empire, and Belgium's role in it, can be seen in the 1913 World's Fair in Ghent, which was hosted by a Belgian king. The gold and white exhibition...
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#1 The Second World War was the first war in which air power played a major role. The generation of Army airmen who came of age in the 1930s were enthralled by the theories of the Italian and American generals, Giulio Douhet and Billy Mitchell, who saw air power as the decisive force in wars of the future.
#2 The history of the A-bomb is the history of the generals...
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