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#1 There are four rules of firearm safety: 1. Always treat your firearm as if it is loaded. 2. Never point your firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy. 3. Always keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. 4. Always be sure of your target and what is behind it before you pull the trigger.
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#1 When your world falls apart in one second, having a martini in your hand at a dear friend's barbecue on a perfect summer evening in Seattle isn't the worst place to be.
#2 I was on my way to the hospital, but it sounded bad. I was leaving José's mother for last. I paused, finger hovering over the call button. What if. I pressed CALL and voicemail picked up right...
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#1 The second book in the series, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon, focuses on the Dogon tribe and their cosmology. The book documents many consistent similarities between Dogon mythological keywords and symbols and those of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language.
#2 The Dogon are a modern remnant of a very ancient tradition. They share many common elements of culture, mythology,...
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Get the Summary of Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey around the coastline of Britain. Theroux sets out to explore the country beyond London, where he has lived for eleven years, to understand the nation he resides in. He travels on foot, by train, and by bus, avoiding typical travel...
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#1 I've learned more about life from people than from books. I'm on the road a lot, and when I travel, I visit food markets, pastry shops, butchers, and grocery stores. I read menus posted outside restaurants. I watch the residents argue back and forth with the merchants over the virtues of their wares.
#2 I have always been curious about what people eat, and as I grew...
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#1 When Emily fell, she was weightless for a moment between the point where the upward momentum from her limbs was about to give way to gravity, and the point where her body would hit the ground. Her body was still hers, but her fate was sealed.
#2 I was asked to come to the hospital to identify the body of Emily, who had died of apparent suicide. Her home city of New...
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Get the Summary of in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries.
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist...
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Get the Summary of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.
I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells...
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#1 Laroche is a tall, skinny man with pale eyes and a sharp appearance. He is extremely passionate and driven. He has been working for the Seminole Tribe of Florida since he was twenty-one years old, setting up a plant nursery and an orchid-propagation laboratory on the tribe's reservation in Hollywood, Florida.
#2 Laroche is a very unusual person. He is also the most...
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#1 I have always had an attraction to the absence of something, whether it was sadness or something else. I was a tomboy as a child, until I wasn't. There was no bridge to the other side.
#2 When I was twelve, I went to the mall with my mother to get makeup applied to my face. I was terrified of the idea, but my mother insisted that I do it. The experience taught me...
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#1 The most important place you can spend time in is your home. Make the most of it by clearing out the excess stuff that's been collecting, and you'll be able to live a more fulfilling life.
#2 There is one moment when people decide to embark on a minimalist lifestyle. For most people, it is when they go on a trip and realize how much they own, and how little space...
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Get the Summary of The Dalai Lama with Sofia Stril-Rever's My Spiritual Journey in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this elegant self-portrait, the world's most outspoken and influential spiritual leader recounts his epic and engaging life story. The Dalai Lama's most accessible and intimate book, My Spiritual Journey is an excellent introduction to the larger-than-life leader of Tibetan...
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#1 Gravity does not exist because a majority of politicians decided to pass a law saying that objects fall to the earth. Instead, it is a law of nature, a governing rule that is self-evident.
#2 The House of Representatives of Massachusetts wrote a document that was a defiant objection to the Stamp Act, a new tax on every piece of printed paper used by the colonists.
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#1 I was a wannabe, and I wanted to be in the cool group. I figured this would be my ticket. I was used as a convenient tool by my roommates, who planned a trip to the mainland. I assured them that my 1966 VW Bus was perfect for the trip.
#2 I had to convince my best friend, Perro, to be an accomplice. He and I had been sworn enemies in middle school, where I was a year...
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#1 I would often end up in places like this-back pockets of the world where less desirable things and people are crammed away. I was always shocked by the sight of children working, smiling, in some places.
#2 I meet my friend in the orange dress again, and we walk to the other side of the river. We say goodbye, and I continue on my journey. I know with certainty that I'll see her...
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#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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#1 The two men who got on that flight from Moscow to London were actually spies working for a foreign power. They were career officers with Russian military intelligence. Their real names were Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. They had come to London to murder someone.
#2 The GRU, by contrast, was global. It dealt with external threats. Its mandate was everywhere....
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#1 The book, Moneyball, has sold well over a million copies. It was a significant catalyst in spreading the sabermetric gospel in baseball offices, as well as feeding the growing popularity of sports analytics over the Internet.
#2 The movie and the book both claim that the A's implemented this philosophy. It is also claimed that the strategy worked and explains why...
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#1 There is a five-paragraph introduction to Vonnegut's advice series. He suggests that you find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
#2 The author's father had a list of criteria for when he...
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#1 Dominick's father, Anthony Santamaria, was a popular boy from the neighborhood who served in the Army Air Corps and fell in love with his mother after coming home a hero from the war. When Dominick began showing some athletic ability, his father told him that he would prefer living with him, but it was impossible so long as it meant living with Uncle Nino.
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