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#1 The Wall is a monument to the Roman emperor Aulus Platorius Nepos, who conceived it, and the three legions who dug the complex of ditches and mounds, and raised the parapet and intervening fortresses. It was a dividing line between civilization and barbarism, between safety and danger, between the tamed and the wild, and between the settled country and the outland...
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Get the Summary of Simon Winchester & Soun Vannithone's The Map That Changed the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Map That Changed the World" chronicles the life and work of William Smith, an English geologist who created the first detailed geological map of England. Born in 1769 in Churchill, Oxfordshire, Smith grew up during a time of significant scientific and industrial change. Despite his modest...
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#1 Scotland was once attached to England, but they have since drifted apart. Parts of Scotland were formed in the southern hemisphere as part of the continent of Laurentia. Scotland was exposed to a variety of climates, from polar cold to baking heat. Life could not continue in an unbroken line due to the intervention of ice.
#2 The first Scottish people came from Ireland,...
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#1 The author's father, Marcus, had been the leader of the farm for over 20 years. He was ready to retire, and he decided that Bull was not the right person to succeed him. He wanted to make sure the farm was in good hands for the future.
#2 The farm had grown, but it was still small by comparison to other human-run farms. The competition between animal-run and human-run...
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#1 The fishing-boat that landed on the Norwegian coast on the 29th of March, 1943, was carrying twelve men. Eight of them were the crew of the fishing-boat, who had sailed it safely across a thousand miles of ocean No-man's-land.
#2 In 1943, the Norwegian coast was of extreme importance to the Germans. The Allied convoys that traveled to the Russian arctic ports passed...
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Get the Summary of Robert T. Kiyosaki's Retire Young Retire Rich in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you don't plan on working hard all your life... this book is for you. If you're ready to retire (or want to retire early enough to enjoy your retirement years) you can learn from Robert's story of how he and his wife Kim started with nothing and "retired" - financially free - in less...
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#1 The American Army was crippled by a crisis of confidence and a growing culture of apathy and neglect in the early seventies. But in 1973, the Army began to revive itself by adopting a zero tolerance policy for drugs and enforcing new standards of discipline.
#2 The Army began to train and prepare their soldiers more thoroughly in the 1970s, and as a result, their...