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Get the Summary of Julia Cooke's Come Fly the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of...
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Get the Summary of Pablo Vierci's Society of the Snow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Society of the Snow" by Pablo Vierci recounts the harrowing tale of the survivors of the Flight F571 crash in the Andes. The narrative follows the survivors' return to the crash site, their emotional and physical struggles, and the profound transformations they underwent. The group, including Roberto Canessa, Gustavo Zerbino,...
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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. On the Titanic's maiden voyage, a seemingly minor collision with an iceberg led to a catastrophic sinking, revealing the ship's fatal vulnerabilities and the unpreparedness of its passengers and crew. The initial underestimation of the damage, combined with a lack of sufficient lifeboats and a delayed response from nearby ships,...
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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#1 The first astronauts were chosen in 1959. They were military test pilots who were eager to fly in space. They were terrified of public exposure, but they were willing to accept it to fly in space.
#2 When World War II ended, Gus was discharged from the Air Force. He married Betty in 1945, and the couple began their life together in Mitchell. But jobs were scarce,...
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#1 Johnny von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician and scientist who was born in Budapest in 1903. He was the first of three sons born to Miksa and Margit, educated, well-to-do parents who were plugged into the city's dazzling intellectual and artistic life.
#2 The First World War would precipitate the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The von Neumann brothers were held as...
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#1 The wives were constantly on the phone trying to find out what had happened. The wives would phrase it as if they thought something had happened to their husbands, when in reality, they just wanted to know whose husband it was.
#2 The final news that a wife receives is usually delivered by a man with some authority or moral standing. The protocol is for the husband to bring the...
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#1 The media regularly promotes the idea that animal agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate change. However, this is completely false.
#2 In 2020, many people around the world heard the call to reduce or eliminate meat consumption. The proportion of UK meat eaters who reported having reduced or limited the amount of meat they consume rose from 28 percent in...
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#1 In the summer of 2015, I was a doctor at Hurley Medical Center, a teaching hospital on the campus of the University of Michigan. My wife, Reeva, and I had taken our two-year-old daughter, TL, there for annual checkups.
#2 As a doctor, I want to help people, and I want to help people help themselves. I believe in the power of education and information to make people...
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#1 Ionizing radiation, the emission or transmission of energy, comes in a variety of forms. The radiation produced by nuclear explosions and accidents carries enough energy to detach electrons from atoms and molecules.
#2 The statue of Prometheus, a Greek Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humankind, was erected in the city of Prypiat a few years before...
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#1 The ship will become an astonishing, remarkable thing: thousands of tons of thousands of types of cargo, floating on miles of water, traveling safely to the other side of the world. Kendal's job is to travel to Felixstowe, Bremerhaven, and Rotterdam.
#2 The people of Kendal live and work in the accommodation house, a cream superstructure placed toward the rear of...
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#1 Chingford is the birthplace of sirloin steak, and it is a quiet and unassuming borough on the northeast edge of London. It votes Conservative, as the constituency of Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative Party. Jony Ive was born there.
#2 Mike Ive's influence went beyond the precocious child in his own household. He was a teacher, and he helped develop...
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#1 Designers have been relegated to the business of making pretty pictures, but now that UX is everywhere, we are thrust into the limelight of product development with our own ideas forming a critical part of the puzzle.
#2 I began my career in UX by interviewing for jobs as a marketing manager. I enjoyed interviewing others about their work, and I loved to talk about...
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#1 We were flying over Rocky Mountain National Park, thirty miles to the northwest. Our pilot, David Kunkel, was navigating with the help of an iPad Mini. People don't usually think altitude is affecting them, but if you ask them to count backward from a hundred by sevens, they have trouble.
#2 I looked up Kunkel on Google and was dismayed to discover that he had landed...
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#1 I will argue that more fossil fuel use will not only help alleviate climate change, but also make the world a better place. Fossil fuels provide 80 percent of the world's energy, and without them, millions of people would be left in poverty.
#2 The argument that more fossil fuel use is good and should be supported, and that eliminating fossil fuel use is bad...
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#1 FAs are using a new technology, called Next Best Action, to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#2 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better outcomes for their clients.
#3 FAs are using a new technology called Next Best Action to improve their services and provide better...
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#1 The drums communicated information. They were not just instruments of signaling, like the bugle and the bell in European cultures. They could convey a small set of messages: attack, retreat, come to church.
#2 The drums were not just signaling tools, but also a means of communicating large amounts of information.
#3 The first crack in the hitherto solid assumption...
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#1 In 1967, Jake Locke got a letter from someone who claimed to have his notebook. It was written in some sort of alien hieroglyphics, and his roommate said it looked like Russian. Locke didn't know what to think.
#2 The author responded to an ad placed in the newspaper by a spy ring. He was sent a letter in Russian, and then a postcard with a handful of questions....
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