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At 11 a.m. on April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito Mussolini. As he raised his arm to give the Fascist salute, ... (Read More)
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"In 1659, 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam as a highly independent, unattached 'she-merchant' who collected debts from a Dutch cousin's customers and sought out buyers for ... (Read More)
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Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians, largely through their roles as teachers of history and historical interpreters, and within ... (Read More)
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To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation of chosen people, blessed by God, says Sarah Vowell, the author of Assassination Vacation and a former contributing editor to public ... (Read More)
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"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." So said British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray on the eve of the Great War in 1914. The Bolsheviks ... (Read More)
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Most of us take for granted such aspects of our society as telecommunication, literacy, even obesity. Yet for millions of years human society had none of these things, as the Pulitzer Prize–winning ... (Read More)
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Named one of the best reference books of 2009 by the Library Journal, this single-volume encyclopedia presents succinct entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant ... (Read More)
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August Kubizek. Geoffrey Brooks, trans. Ian Kershaw, intro.
Publisher: Arcade. Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781611450583. Daedalus Item Code: 21662
In 1904, young August Kubizek met young Adolf Hitler in line for standing room at the opera. Their mutual love of music created an immediate bond, and over the next four years they became close ... (Read More)
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On June 2, 1919, bombs exploded simultaneously in nine American cities, igniting a "red scare" that gripped the nation. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer vowed a crackdown and assigned 24-year-old ... (Read More)
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