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#1 Thomas Cromwell was the most powerful man in England during the Tudor dynasty. He was born in 1485, which was fitting since it was in that year that the Tudors came to power. His family were not originally from Putney, but from Norwell in Nottinghamshire.
#2 The Cromwell family had owned a fulling mill at Putney for fifty years. Walter also owned a hostelry, an Anchor,...
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#1 The end of March 2002 will be etched in my memory forever. I was out riding with the Queen when she suddenly asked me if I would live in suburbia. I accepted the house in the Great Park at Windsor, near Royal Lodge, the weekend retreat of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
#2 I had been a Woman of the Bedchamber to my aunt since 1991, and in her final weeks I went...
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#1 The debate between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke was over who had discovered the Source of the Nile River. Burton claimed it was Lake Victoria, while Speke claimed it was Lake Tanganyika.
#2 The public was excited to see Burton and Speke, as their encounters with Livingstone had been a balm for the wounds of the Crimean War, the ill-fated Charge of...
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#1 The United States underwent a political and economic movement in the late nineteenth century called the Trust Movement, which called for the reorganization of the American and world economy into a new form: the giant, monopoly corporation.
#2 The Trust Movement's economic arguments were that monopolies like Rockefeller's and Morgan's were saving the economy from ruin....
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#1 I wake up around ten, make two cups of tea, and take them into the bedroom. I place one on each side of the bed. I sip thoughtfully, and in three easy stages, within fifteen, twenty minutes of waking, I am on my way.
#2 I have read books written by people who obviously love football, but that's a different thing entirely. This is for the rest of us, and for anyone...
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#1 Before Herodotus travels to many different places and sees many different things, he will appear in a lecture on ancient Greece delivered twice weekly to the first-year students in Warsaw University's department of history. He will just as quickly disappear.
#2 The Histories of Herodotus, a book written about two and a half thousand years ago, was translated into...
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#1 Mengele was a doctor who was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was near the center of a brave new world, and as the camp began to dismantle, he was moved to the margins. He became both the personification of the Holocaust and its most notorious author.
#2 I was assigned to the international investigation to locate Mengele and bring him before a court...
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#1 I was the Emperor apparent of the Ch'ing Dynasty. I refused an imperial summons from the Forbidden City delivered by the Grand Councillor. My family was humiliated by my refusal to obey the imperial edict. However, I was told several years later that it was agreed to waive all protocol and allow my wet nurse to carry me to the palace.
#2 The first year of my reign...
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#1 I had a career because the all-male board at my junior-year college decided to replace our brilliant but decidedly masculine headmistress with a woman who was in the process of eclipsing her in the affections of her lover.
#2 Benji, a journalist, was 19 years old when he was assigned to cover the story of an all-male college board's decision to replace its headmistress...
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#1 In December 1939, an 11-year-old German boy named Paul von Mende was evacuated from Berlin to Norway with his mother. They waited for a message from his father, who was part of a department that had no official name or organizational structure.
#2 The boy was a spy, in the language of espionage. He visited a woman's apartment and talked about the books he was given...
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#1 Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945 and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.
#2 The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something...
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#1 Jefferson had a lifelong fascination with trees. He thought of them as his favorite type of plants, and he went to great effort and expense to place those he liked best around Monticello.
#2 Monticello faced west, and if you looked straight across the estate, you could see all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains. But today, this is no longer the case. The trees have...
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#1 To become great, you must go through hell. So ignore everyone and listen to your heart, and embrace the suck. It's not easy to see out through the windshield. Your eyes try to focus, looking past the grime and muck as your shitbox Ford Fiesta races down a dirt road toward town.
#2 You want to enlist in the Navy, and you want to join the SEALs. The recruiter smiles...
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#1 I was born in 1939, in Bielitz, a town close to the Czechoslovakian border. When I saw people deserting my town, I realized how close we were to the Czechoslovakian frontier.
#2 On September 1, the day the war began, I was in my parents' bedroom watching them. The red glow of the fires outside made Papa look strange and unfamiliar. He spoke to me, telling me to call...
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#1 The death of your sister is a great sorrow, but it is nothing compared to the sorrow you feel for her loss. You must remember that you are all alone in this world, and that you have no one else to lean on but God.
#2 Galileo's daughter, Virginia, was the first of his children to mirror his brilliance and sensibility. She was born in 1600, the same year as the astronomer...
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#1 I had a love of books as a child. I would spend hours leafing through a book, and I would spend my spare time browsing the bouquinistes' old, damp cases of books. When I returned to Paris after the first war, everything had been taken away.
#2 I began to see the importance of a book's reader. I would place the book I thought was appropriate down close to a reader,...
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#1 The scandal surrounding the man behind the princely title and its ramifications for Britain as a nation is well documented. Behind the scenes, the duke has become one of Britain's most influential royals since Prince Philip's retirement from public life in 2017.
#2 By this time, the opposing sides of the Epstein case had split into a who's who of America's establishment....
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#1 I was with my brother when we were surrounded by six to eight wrestlers. I did not understand what was happening, but I knew we were in trouble. I tried to follow Bill, but the banditry of Murphy Homes made them legendary.
#2 I had to see the wrestlers live. But that meant going through my father, who only cared about his work. He worked seven days a week. I thought...
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#1 Nine years ago, Richard Alpert, an assistant professor in clinical psychology at Harvard University, nearly flunked out of college. But he was the one who wanted to be a psychologist, not his father. He was accepted into medical school, but he refused it. He wanted to be a psychologist.
#2 Richard Alpert, the author, was a professor at Stanford University. He...
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#1 Grief is a painful reality that cannot be fixed. You need someone to acknowledge your grief, because it can't be made better.
#2 When out-of-order death or a life-altering event enters your life, everything changes. You are no longer certain of what's important to you, or what you're supposed to do with your life.
#3 Grief is a natural extension of love. It is a...
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