One is that it is very inspiring, and many lessons about perseverance can be learned. Also, the book is very informative about that time period and is very interesting to read about. ... He also never gave up while him and his crew were stranded at sea, no matter how much it seemed they were going to die. ... The book tells their unique life story about them growing up, getting into trouble, and Pete getting Louis to start running so he could stop behaving badly and have something to do with his life. ... Hillenbrand, kept describing the events of the war for far too long in the intro before ...

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He also wrote parts of a book that were later published. ... Eleven years later, Baeck died on November 2. ... If I could travel back in time before Hitler assumed the role of Fuhrer of the National Socialist Party, knowing exactly what I know now about the 12 million people killed in the concentration camps, I would have to let Hitler live. ... In all, 12 million people died in Hitler's concentration camps. ... For the majority of the population they have learned a valuable lesson, as for those out there with that hatred, they will soon learn their lesson from the Holocaust and Hitl...

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Two-thirds of Hiroshima was destroyed and 155,200 people were killed by the first bomb, including deaths from radiation within one year (The Guinness Book of Records). ... By destroying Japan, before the Soviets interfere, America would have more control. ... This shows that Truman's decision did not only aim for destruction, but as a warning and a lesson to the Japanese. ... Another 60,000 people had died from their injuries, and radiation. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ...

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He struggled at first, failing the admission test twice before finally passing it. ... Winston's father died when Winston was only 21 years of age. ... He even took lessons to learn how to fly so that he could understand how they would be used in battle. ... He published a book shortly after named A History of English Speaking Peoples. Churchill wrote in his book The Second World War: The Gathering Storm Vol. ...

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He was very curioious about it and asked many questions about it. At six, Einstein's mother forced him to take violin lessons. ... At age 11, Max brought Albert a book on geometry - the mathematical study of measurement in space, of lines, angles, circles and planes. ... The United States quickly developed the bomb before Hitler did. ... He died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey ...

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Hachiya recorded from a colleague related the story of four middle school students who huddled together in the street, and were so badly burned from the blast that they themselves knew that they would soon die. ... What I had believed before was that, like mentioned above, people too close to the hypocenter immediately died, and all others suffered prolonged internal effects later in life, years after the bomb, like tumors or terminal diseases. ... America was responsible for the destruction of his home, and the death of many people that he cared about! ... I received yet another life lesson ...

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However they both died in infancy. ... Alois Hitler died when Hitler was 13 and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. ... He utterly became a loner, however throughout his time there he learned a valuable lesson that would create success in the future. ... At the time nothing was known about mustard gas and Hitler's recovery was remarkable. ... In here is where he wrote is famous book Mein Kampf. ...

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While he was in prison he wrote Mein Kamp a book that stated his beliefs, and his plan for Germany in the future (Shirer 120-121). In which he talked about the superiority of Germans, the concept of the pure-Aryan. ... Hitler was freed about nine months after his trial. ... Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native Americans and how they were slaughtered along with reading about battles between the Germans and Russians. ... In August of 1934 President Hindenburg died. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purif...

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