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Get the Summary of Julia Cooke's Come Fly the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of...
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Get the Summary of Pablo Vierci's Society of the Snow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Society of the Snow" by Pablo Vierci recounts the harrowing tale of the survivors of the Flight F571 crash in the Andes. The narrative follows the survivors' return to the crash site, their emotional and physical struggles, and the profound transformations they underwent. The group, including Roberto Canessa, Gustavo Zerbino,...
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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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#1 On October 15, 1586, Queen Mary of Scots was on trial for treason. She had been accused of plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in order to take the English crown for herself. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's Principal Secretary, planned to prove that Mary was at the heart of the plot, and was therefore equally culpable and deserving of death.
#2 The plot to...
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Get the Summary of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. On the Titanic's maiden voyage, a seemingly minor collision with an iceberg led to a catastrophic sinking, revealing the ship's fatal vulnerabilities and the unpreparedness of its passengers and crew. The initial underestimation of the damage, combined with a lack of sufficient lifeboats and a delayed response from nearby ships,...
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#1 John Flannery, the man about to take over leadership of the most famous company in America, had come to see GE Power leaders on their home turf. Under the surface, however, GE was in total disarray.
#2 Flannery was the new CEO of GE, and he had to get used to his new position. He had outperformed three rival executives to win the position, and his father had died...
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#1 I had a conversation with Barack Obama in 2008, when he was the Democratic presidential nominee, about NASA. I explained to him that the Shuttle was the most visible part of NASA, but its designated purpose had been to lower launch costs and make space travel routine. However, it had never come close to achieving this goal.
#2 I had been attracted to a career at NASA...
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#1 Flying was expensive in 1972, so most Americans took car trips instead. My parents were no exception. They always took car trips to visit my father's relatives in Indiana.
#2 I was 10 years old in 1967, and I was excited to visit Expo 67 in Montreal. My mother, however, was terrified of the bridge collapse and the island sinking, so we didn't go. I was ready...
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#1 The worst nuclear accident in American history began with a clog in the basement of a lonely hour. The plant's operators were unable to figure out what the hell was going on, and the taint of that chaos would linger for hours.
#2 The control room was extremely busy that day. The water level in the reactor's pulmonary loop, which cools the reactor, was dropping. The...
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#1 The telegraph, a system of sending messages or information to a distant place, was invented in 1746. It was a big deal because it suggested that it should be possible to harness electricity to build a signaling device that could send messages over great distances incomparably faster than a human messenger could carry them.
#2 In 1617, Famianus Strada, a learned...
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#1 The Wright brothers were extremely inventive and adventurous. They had a family that supported their interests and activities. Wilbur was four years older than Orville, and he read extensively. They worked together on some projects, such as making a large lathe.
#2 In 1889, Orville and Wilbur began publishing a newspaper called the West Side News. It was a success,...
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#1 The wives were constantly on the phone trying to find out what had happened. The wives would phrase it as if they thought something had happened to their husbands, when in reality, they just wanted to know whose husband it was.
#2 The final news that a wife receives is usually delivered by a man with some authority or moral standing. The protocol is for the husband to bring the...
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#1 The media regularly promotes the idea that animal agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate change. However, this is completely false.
#2 In 2020, many people around the world heard the call to reduce or eliminate meat consumption. The proportion of UK meat eaters who reported having reduced or limited the amount of meat they consume rose from 28 percent in...
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#1 The first astronauts were chosen in 1959. They were military test pilots who were eager to fly in space. They were terrified of public exposure, but they were willing to accept it to fly in space.
#2 When World War II ended, Gus was discharged from the Air Force. He married Betty in 1945, and the couple began their life together in Mitchell. But jobs were scarce,...
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#1 Johnny von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician and scientist who was born in Budapest in 1903. He was the first of three sons born to Miksa and Margit, educated, well-to-do parents who were plugged into the city's dazzling intellectual and artistic life.
#2 The First World War would precipitate the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The von Neumann brothers were held as...
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#1 I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was constantly getting into trouble, and I dreamed of adventure. I eventually joined the Army National Guard at age 17, and went off to basic training between my junior and senior years.
#2 I loved flying, and I was good at it. I was eventually cleared to solo, and on my way to becoming a pilot. I was having the...
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#1 Mossad is the most intriguing intelligence service. It operates on behalf of a country that is surrounded by enemy states, and its citizens are constantly threatened by war. Nevertheless, they are the best intelligence service in the world.
#2 The CIA may have more technical resources, but no intelligence service is more feared than Mossad. The popular view of its...
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#1 Mervin Kelly, the boy who would become the author's grandfather, was a striver. He was both class president and valedictorian in high school, and people in Gallatin noticed that he was intent on being in charge.
#2 In the early 1900s, when Kelly was going to school, few Americans recognized the differences between a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor. The public...
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#1 I will argue that more fossil fuel use will not only help alleviate climate change, but also make the world a better place. Fossil fuels provide 80 percent of the world's energy, and without them, millions of people would be left in poverty.
#2 The argument that more fossil fuel use is good and should be supported, and that eliminating fossil fuel use is bad...
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