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De Peter Cozzens, autor del exitoso La tierra llora. La amarga historia de las Guerras Indias por la conquista del Oeste, llega la extraordinaria historia de dos hermanos de la tribu shawnee, Tecumseh y Tenskwatawa, artífices de la mayor confederación india de la historia de los Estados Unidos, capaz de poner en jaque a la recién nacida república. Con los colonos desbordando los Apalaches, en un frenesí por explotar las tierras ganadas a los...
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#1 I was in a men-only room with my companion, the Famous Blue Raincoat. We'd been domestic for years. It seemed difficult to understand why two men who were happy with each other would take the risk of going to these places where the atmosphere would tend to drive them apart.
#2 I had determined myself into that pace. I had not gone upstairs to be anything but...
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#1 The Gadsden Purchase, which added nearly 30,000 square miles of territory to the United States, included the towns of Mesilla and Tucson, as well as all the mountains in between. Those mountains constituted the heart of Apacheria.
#2 After the Americans acquired the land, Charles Poston and his friends Johnny Ward and William G. Poston, founded a frontier paradise...
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#1 Before the Civil War, the Tug River Valley was largely ignored by the outside world. There were no roads, no rails, no schools, and no churches there. The transcontinental telegraph system, which crossed the country in 1861, bypassed the area.
#2 Anse had set out to hunt the last known stag in Virginia, but when he reached the top of the ridge, the buck had...
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#1 In the northern latitudes, the dawn came early. In Berlin, Germany's most bombed city, the ruins stood out in stark, macabre splendor. The city was blackened by soot, pockmarked by thousands of craters, and laced by the twisted girders of ruined buildings.
#2 The 314th American bombing raid on Berlin was over, and the city was in ruins. The statistics of destruction...
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#1 Travel writers say that you must go solo to appreciate the object of your travel. I was relieved to find out that Steinbeck was not as strict about solitude as he claimed to be. He regularly traveled with his wife, who was about to retire from her second career as the executive director of a local nonprofit.
#2 I wanted to find out what Washington got right, and what tools...
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#1 Gifford Pinchot was a bit odd, but he was self-aware enough to know that he was considered strange. He knew Roosevelt from sportsmen circles in the Empire State, and they came to the governor's mansion in Albany with Christopher Grant La Farge, son of the painter John La Farge, a close friend of Teddy's.
#2 The two men talked about the forest protection and the fear...
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Book Preview: #1 The illegal slave trade was banned by every major power in the mid-1800s. But some countries, including the United States, had strong interests in permitting the trade to continue, despite its illegality.
#2 The United States and the traffickers who would come to operate from its ports were intimately connected to a much broader Atlantic story that would shape...
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#1 The Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands began on 2 April 1982, with the invasion of Mullet Creek. The Argentinians were met by British troops, who surrendered after five hours of fighting. 67 Royal Marines and 11 members of the Royal Navy were captured.
#2 The Falklands are a temperate climate with little rainfall, but strong winds. The islands are treeless,...
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Book Preview: #1 Dusko Popov and Johann Johnny Jebsen were friends who met in 1936 at the University of Freiburg in southern Germany. Popov was a law student, while Jebsen was taking an economics degree. They were both Spoilt, Charismatic, and Irresponsible.
#2 Jebsen was a rich, rootless orphan who had visited Britain as a teenager. He spoke English in preference to German, and...
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#1 The image of Texas is dominated by the Cowboy, the Rancher, and the Oilman, who are typically White men. What this means for everyone who lives in Texas and is not a White man is part of what I hope to explore in the essays of this book.
#2 The Big Thicket, an area in eastern Texas, is home to 75 percent of North America's bird species. It is also the home of...
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#1 America's Jazz Age began in July 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama, when a strikingly beautiful woman named Zelda Sayre caught the eye of First Lieutenant Francis Scott Fitzgerald. She was 17 years old, and she had a well-earned reputation for violating the time-honored codes of sexual propriety.
#2 Zelda was a popular girl at Sidney Lanier High School, and she...
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#1 The land of Extremadura, Francisco Orellana's homeland in the kingdom of Castile, produced hard and unyielding men who learned the arts of warfare as boys. They were a temperament forged by eight hundred years of conflict with the invading Moors.
#2 Orellana was a conquistador who participated in the expedition of 1541–42. He was also known to be cruel and...
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#1 On the evening of July 18, 2003, eighteen-year-old Brittney Vikko went to visit her friend Tiffany Rowell. Something was wrong, she felt, and she was screaming for the police.
#2 When you're just out of high school, you're still running on a full tank of teen angst. To think about college seems overwhelming, so you want to go with the flow. But when you're least...
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#1 The parents of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary were also affected by the shooting. The parents of six-year-old Charlotte Bacon wanted to get her a pink dress for the holidays, but her mother argued against it. The father and son went shopping, and Jesse bought ornaments for his first-grade teacher and his mother.
#2 The family of seven-year-old Daniel...
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#1 The first guest to use Airbedandbreakfast. com was Amol Surve, a graduate of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He arrived at his rental late in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 16, 2007. The apartment was spacious, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a comfortable living room.
#2 Brian Chesky grew up in a middle-class family in Niskayuna,...
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#1 The baseball game on May 11, 1943, between the Cloudbuster Nine and the Tar Heels was the talk of the base for weeks. It was the most popular sport in America for civilians and millions of men and women in uniform. But the best players didn't wear jerseys for the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the 1942 World Series.
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In the late eighteen hundreds when Shirks grandmother was a young person, womens choices were limited. Frances knew she was meant to be a nurse, but, being young and unmarried, society said no. Her friend Sally, granddaughter of slaves, knew she could be a great teacher, but there was little chance for her to get training. Reading this book in a group and then having a discussion about it takes courage. Its not easy to talk about race and gender issues....
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#1 The couple had planned their escape for months. On a Wednesday or a Sunday night, when everyone was in church for the 6:30 p. m. service, they would leave the house and start loading up their car. They had only ten minutes to get out.
#2 The Coopers were members of Word of Faith Fellowship, an independent evangelical Christian church in North Carolina. The church...
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#1 Mokhtar was a man of action and purpose. He had finally saved enough money to enroll at City College of San Francisco, and he was ready to start law school in the fall. He thought about what it would be like to have a law degree, and eventually run for office.
#2 Mokhtar lost the satchel containing the three thousand dollars and his new eleven-hundred-dollar...
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