Far Outliers

From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 148-149, 152-153: > The accession of ]’s son Ferdinand > in 1479 was of...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 124-125: > For those who detested the House of Anjou >  and all it > s...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 83-84: > When the news was brought to the Byzantine headquarters that th...

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 From The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam, by Tran Khanh (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993), pp. 21-25: > Two major factors converged to cause an...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 64-66: > The Normans were now effectively on its very doorstep; there wa...

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From The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam, by Tran Khanh (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993), pp. 17-20: > When Vietnam became independent of its Ch...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 58-59: > Sicily, like neighboring Calabria, became a haven for refugees f...

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From The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam, by Tran Khanh (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993), pp. 14-17. > Chinese contacts with the Indochina penins...

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From The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam, by Tran Khanh (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993), pp. 1-7. > Close to twenty years have passed since So...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 36-39: > One thing is certain: that the Romans treated Sicily with littl...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 673-678: > Given all the cumulative problems it faced, it is surprising Weimar >�...

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From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History , by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. xxv-xxvii: > The celebrated words from The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lamped...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 597-599: > Out on the streets, there was an alarming increase in violence > betw...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 575-576: > The bungled fiasco of the German–Austrian Customs Union led > directl...

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 From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 552-554: > Given the horrors that followed, it now seems impossible to > unders...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 257-258, 281-282: >�...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 199-201: > The Rus...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 178-179: > THROUGHO...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 164-166: > Hutchins...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 65-67: > ON SEPTEM...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 506-508: > As news spread of Stresemann’s death, there was a flood of > tribut...

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From The Island of Extraordinary Captives : A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp, by Simon Parkin (Scribner, 2022), Kindle pp. 40-44: > Shortly a...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 468-470: > At the same time as Hitler was planning a future world war, the > w...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 417-419: > The year ended dramatically with another domestic political crisis, > r...

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From The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 , by Frank McDonough (Bloomsbury, 2023), Kindle pp. 397-400, 416: > Meanwhile, German foreign policy once again took centre stage. > S...

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