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#1 The story of human beings in Ireland is very short. The first evidence of people living in Ireland goes back only to c. 8000 BC, to the era known as the Mesolithic or middle stone age. The first Irish settlers, at sites such as Mount Sandel in Co. Derry and Lough Boora in Co. Offaly, seem to have depended on wild boar and fish for their non-plant foods.
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#1 The women in this study were from families headed by lesser landed gentlemen, attorneys, doctors, clerics, merchants, and manufacturers. They were not pretentious about their aristocracy, but they did not pretend to be members of the fashionable cosmopolitan beau monde.
#2 The Georgian social stratum has not been well served by recent historical investigation. The...
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Book Preview: #1 The end of the war in Berlin was on 30 April, but in Aachen, 640 kilometers west of Berlin, the war had already been over for six months. In Duisburg, the war had been over in the districts to the west of the Rhine since 28 March, but in the east it raged for another 16 days.
#2 The idea of Zero Hour was emblematic of the elemental break that Germany had experienced....
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#1 I had wanted to be a professional actor after college, but I had no plan how to achieve it. I had stumbled into an Art History 101 class at the end of my freshman year, and I found myself spellbound. Within three weeks, I became an art history major.
#2 The reward of jet lag is a new set of coordinates, a new language, and local delicacies. I was in Italy to study...
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#1 The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.
#2 The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration....
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#1 The French countryside was dotted with obstacles and wooden crosses, which were symbols of the German occupation. The German army knew that the days of their comparatively idyllic existence were drawing to a close by 1944.
#2 In the summer of 1940, there was no thought of an invasion in the minds of Germany's soldiers basking in the glory of victory over their traditional...
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#1 The past is a collection of fragments that cannot be pieced together to form a coherent sequence. But through the accumulation of these fragments, it is now possible to furnish the set on which the lost drama was performed.
#2 The First Kingdom is a chronicle of how Anglo-Saxon kings were chosen by God to bring about a single, universal church and people. It is difficult...
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#1 The cockerels began their morning chorus and people began to wake up. The vast majority of people lived a rural life and kept their own chickens and pigs in the yard out the back. Cattle and sheep grazed on town commons.
#2 Tudor beds were usually made of straw, and people would sleep on them in their clothes if they had to. They were not very comfortable, and they...
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#1 The year that Napoleon was finally defeated was also the year that Otto von Bismarck was born: 1815. His childhood was heavily influenced by the stories of the struggle against the French. When Napoleon's army inflicted a humiliating defeat on Prussia in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, it subjugated all Prussians to French overlordship.
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#1 The rush to the diamond fields of Griqualand turned into a frantic escapade that one Cape Town newspaper likened to a dangerous madness. The mining settlements of Griqualand soon came to be renowned as much for despair, disease, and death as for the fortunes made there.
#2 In 1870, young Cecil Rhodes was sent to Natal from England to join his brother Herbert in a...
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Book Preview: #1 The game the rest of the world knows as jai alai was invented in the French Basque town of St. Pée-sur-Nivelle. The Basques, as they often did, went in a completely different direction than the French. They were the first Europeans to use a rubber ball, and the added bounce of wrapping rubber rather than string led them to play the ball off walls.
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#1 The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.
#2 The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism...
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Book Preview: #1 I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.
#2 In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route...
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#1 The town of St. Andrews, Scotland, owes its origins to a divine mission. In the ninth century, a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew's diagonal cross in the sky above, and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles.
#2 I was wondering which one was supposed to move first: the ball or the club. Something terrifying and miraculous can happen over...
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#1 The Middle East is a powder keg. It has been the scene of repeated belligerent encounters since men learned to bear arms. The first battle of recorded time took place in what is now Israel in 1469 BC.
#2 The Battle of El Alamein was not like the other battles in the desert war. It was a battle of deliberate attrition, conducted in a way that a veteran of World...
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#1 In August of 1961, Joachim was on vacation in the Berlin area with his best friend, Manfred. They heard the announcement that the border between East and West Berlin had been closed. It meant that the city had been split in half, and that everything would be cut off from each other.
#2 As the campsite buzzed with rumors, Joachim felt a long way from home. He and his...
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#1 On May 9, 1940, Hitler had a meeting at his headquarters in Berlin to discuss the upcoming campaign against France and Britain. The meeting was supposed to last a month but did not last a day longer.
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#1 The Scottish Reformation was the work of one man, John Knox, and he was able to turn the Scots into God's chosen people and turn Scotland into the New Jerusalem. He imposed the Calvinist Sabbath on Scottish society, and banned all traditional forms of collective fun.
#2 The Kirk, which was the main church in Scotland, turned its back on secular values and embraced God alone. It...
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#1 I was able to interview the commanding officer of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, Lyle Bouck Jr. He was a true American officer and gentleman, and he handed over years of careful documentation and press clippings.
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#1 The archaeologist John Pendlebury was one of the members of MI(R) sent to Greece and Albania in 1940. He was a romantic who had been interested in Greece since his time as curator at Knossos in the mid-1930s.
#2 During the summer of 1940, Britain prepared for invasion, as the first skirmishes took place in the Western Desert. The Greek dictator, General Ioannis Metaxas,...
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