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#1 Gotti and Castellano had been itching to kill each other for years, but underboss Aniello Dellacroce had kept them from doing so. Gotti and the other captains loyal to Dellacroce deeply resented Castellano, who they felt was sharing in the union income.
#2 The mob had a rule against drug trafficking, and it was widely known that Castellano had dealers around...
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#1For over two hundred and fifty years, Europeans knew of the Pacific, but knew nothing about it. In September 1513, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sighting the sea from high ground.
#2 The Spanish showed little interest in the Chamorro people, but a different traveler, William Dampier, was interested in their...
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#1 The South Sea, or the Pacific Ocean, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who first crossed it in 1513. It was James Cook who first crossed the Pacific, discovering islands at almost every turn.
#2 The city's wealthiest merchant, John Jacob Astor, had made his fortune with these ships. American China traders, many of them from Boston and Salem, set out...
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#1 On the northwest side of Hinckley, the Brennan Lumber Company was lit up by strange, reddish lights. The house shuddered as another windstorm hit it. In the town of Clara, Anderson, the girls were saying good-night to one another.
#2 Emil Anderson, the pastor, was returning home from a church conference in Hinckley. He was humming Swedish hymns and thinking...
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#1 The explorers were uninvited guests in an unknown land, and any tribe they encountered was assumed to be hostile until proven otherwise. The threat of violence was implicit in the act of exploration.
#2 The Nez Perce were a tribe that the explorers got along with very well with. They were proud, dignified, reserved, slow to anger, and attentive to personal cleanliness....
67) Savage Kingdom
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Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony's 400th anniversary in 2007.
Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy-left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1607, and set about trying to...
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#1 The night in the onion field was a Saturday night. Saturday meant impossible traffic in Hollywood, so felony car officers did their best work on side streets off Hollywood and Sunset boulevards. The streets were full of revelers' cars that were clouted or stolen.
#2 The smell of tar in the air reminded Ian of a park in the heart of the city, where he had once...
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#1 Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who wrote Treasure Island. He wrote the book in three days, and it was published in installments in Young Folks magazine. He had not been well in Scotland, and he spent the winter with his wife and stepson in Davos, Switzerland.
#2 The book, Treasure Island, was written by Robert Lewis Stevenson and published in 1883....
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#1 The first Black women to step foot on American soil were not enslaved. They were free, and they traveled with Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
#2 Black women arrived during a period of European conquest, colonization, and chaos. They were among the first nonindigenous explorers of the region. Their history can be uncovered through Spanish archival records and...
71) Chiapas
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La historia del estado de Chiapas surge del fondo del tiempo y se encuentra enraizada en los mitos de la creación contenidos en los viejos libros de la sabiduría, como el Popol Vuh.
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#1 The gambler was returning to Las Vegas. He had been a publisher and café owner in Hollywood, but his friends and enemies knew him for what he really was: a gambler. Hollywood, when you thought about it, was a big poker table: money could only be acquired through luck.
#2 Wilkerson had a vision of doing for gambling in Nevada what he had done for nightlife on...
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#1 Jefferson was the most eloquent advocate of freedom, but he was also the most dedicated racist. In his mind, those two convictions were inseparable.
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#3 The first glimpse of a distinctively different attitude toward slavery occurred during Jefferson's...
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#1 In the early second millennium, two armies marched from opposite directions and raided north India. The first was led by a general acting on the authority of Rajendra I, maharaja of the Chola empire, towards the extreme southern end of the Indian peninsula. In 1022, his army marched 1,600 kilometers north from the Cholas' royal and ceremonial capital of Tanjavur.
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#1 I had worked for the Wolf Project in Yellowstone in the spring of 1998, and had transferred to a summer job with the Druid pack in January 2000. I had grown up in New England, and was used to harsh winters. But in January 2000, I experienced what winter weather is like in Yellowstone.
#2 I observed the lowest-ranking Druid female, 106, digging into deep snow...
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#1 When a thirty-eight-year-old Nick Saban arrived at Toledo, he didn't waste any time in establishing his authority. He knew what he wanted, and he made it clear from the start that he would not be changing anything except for the name on the front of the uniform.
#2 If you want to establish a new culture, you need to lay out clear and consistent standards from...
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Lakota Lore is a compendium of my thoughts and current and past knowledge of the historic and cultural heritage of the Dakota Sioux Nation. It is primarily focused on the larger Lakota branch of the nation due to the fact that a large part of my family possesses Oglala Lakota lineage. Their lack of interest and knowledge precipitated my desire to acquaint them with their rich heritage. This book is aimed at providing a guideline for them and anyone...
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#1 Some police officers are 10 percenters, who get the job done no matter what. They are relied on to get the job done.
#2 Sean Jenkins was one of the most aggressive police officers in Baltimore. He was constantly on the move, and his gung-ho attitude quickly won him entry into the city's most elite units.
#3 The crash scene was chaotic, and it would take a moment for...
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#1 Los Angeles in 1974 was a center of pop culture. The city was the birthplace of the New Wave in Hollywood, the smooth Southern California sound that ruled the album charts and radio airwaves, and many other innovations.
#2 Los Angeles had several periods of great film, television, and music production, but the early 1970s was the pinnacle of these industries....
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#1 Lincoln was diagnosed with depression, and his case is typical of the disease. His parents had a family history of depression, and he likely inherited it.
#2 Lincoln was depressed.
#3 Lincoln was depressed. His only sibling died in infancy, and his mother died from the milk sick when he was nine. He was then left to live with his paternal aunt and uncle,...
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