, “Make love not war,” and then -- down at the bottom -- “Screw it, just make money.”
Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) - 2 views
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A Florida woman wrote to tell me that, before reading it, she’d always been annoyed at the poor for what she saw as their self-inflicted obesity.
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. I started with my own extended family, which includes plenty of people without jobs or health insurance, and moved on to trying to track down a couple of the people I had met while working on Nickel and Dimed
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Poe's Life | Edgar Allan Poe Museum - 1 views
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. Griswold followed the obituary with a memoir in which he portrayed Poe as a drunken, womanizing madman with no morals and no friends. Griswold’s attacks were meant to cause the public to dismiss Poe and his works, but the biography had exactly the opposite effect and instead drove the sales of Poe’s books higher than they had ever been during the author’s lifetime.
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Days after Poe’s death, his literary rival Rufus Griswold wrote a libelous obituary of the author in a misguided attempt at revenge for some of the offensive things Poe had said and written about him
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Spanish Inquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
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This is about the Spanish Inquisition. What it is, and who was involved in it.
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Info on the spanish inquisition
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This is a Wikipedia article on the Spanish Inquisition.
Alexander the Great [ushistory.org] - 1 views
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A great conqueror, in 13 short years he amassed the largest empire in the entire ancient world — an empire that covered 3,000 miles.
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Not bad for a kid who became the King of Macedon at the age of 20.
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