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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 James Stewart, the movie star, was born in 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. His family was one of the first to settle in Armstrong Township, just six miles west of Indiana.
#2 The Civil War, which tore America apart between 1861 and 1865, had a strong impact on the Stewart family. Seven of John Kerr Stewart's grandsons fought in the war between the states.
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#1 The pattern of my failures on stage was that I would spend days, even weeks before the performance, thinking about a spot in the score that I knew I would mess up. It could be anything: a shift into the stratospheric reaches of the E string, a passage of rapid-fire sixteenth notes, or a finger-contorting pattern of double-stops.
#2 I had to play a piece called La...
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#1 The first humans to live in Georgia were hunters who made tools and wore pendants. They were also efficient weavers, and they created fibers from plants. This undercuts long-held assumptions about our early ancestors and gives us a fuller, richer picture of their lives.
#2 The Dzudzuana cave contains the oldest traces of fiber arts in the world, dating from 32,000...
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#1 I had a conversation with Ozawa about the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto in C minor on November 16, 2010. We spent three hours discussing the concerto, and took occasional breaks to prevent Ozawa from tiring.
#2 The speech by Bernstein is included in this live recording that I have here. He said that he was conducting the Brahms Piano Concerto according to the interpretation...
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Get the Summary of Sharon Stone's The Beauty of Living Twice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to...
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#1 Elvis hated Goulet, because Goulet had moved in on his girl after Elvis had shipped off to Germany. Elvis wanted to kill him onscreen the moment he appeared in a 1977 television commercial for the show Police Story. He couldn't miss.
#2 Elvis's survivor's guilt and grief were two emotions that constantly ate away at him. He had never felt more alone.
#3 In August...
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#1 I was excited to learn about the Director, Tortsov, and his plans for my acting career. I was to perform bits from plays chosen by me, and then he would be able to judge my dramatic quality.
#2 I was so embarrassed that instead of apology, I made the careless remark I seem to be a little late. Rakhmanov, the Assistant Director, looked at me reproachfully. He said...
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Get the Summary of Trevor Strunk's Ph.D. Story Mode in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century. Their imagery is near ubiquitous-children, adults, and even professional athletes know what a Fortnite dance is without...
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Get the Summary of Dave Grohl's The Storyteller in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary andnot the original book. Original book introduction: This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my...
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#1 I was often absent from school, and as a result became something of a phantom to my classmates and teachers. I was born in 1961 in La Mesa, California. My parents divorced when I was four years old, and my father became some sort of shadowy figure.
#2 I have memories of a benign man smoking a pipe, reading the newspaper, and calling me over to kiss him good night....
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#1 My family's history with the U. S. Army began in 1943, when my father was drafted into the army and my mother enlisted in the Women's Army Corps. In 1955, my sister was born. Elvis Presley was drafted in 1958, and my father spoke with him before he went in.
#2 Elvis's fame reached all the way to the army, where my father met him. My father was given a signed photograph...
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#1 I wanted to teach other rappers how to rhyme, so I wrote a song called How to Emcee in 2009. It explained how to mix words, and it had a sarcastic flow. I was having fun with the syllables.
#2 I consider wordplay to be playing drums with words. I will take multi-syllable words and place them in a certain order to make them sound different, or I will move words up...
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#1 The last time Pink Floyd got into trouble with a politician was in the 1980s, when their song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 featured a choir of London inner city schoolchildren shouting a chorus of We don't need no education. In 2005, Live 8 was held to raise awareness about Third World deprivation and to urge world leaders to tackle the issue of poverty.
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#1 The Japanese researchers found that the attractive ATMs were easier to use. This was surprising, as Israelis are action-oriented and don't care about beauty. But the results were replicated in Israel, and they were even stronger there than in Japan.
#2 Emotions, and in particular positive emotions, are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought. When people...
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Get the Summary of Stormy Daniels's Full Disclosure in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump...
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#1 Levon Helm, the drummer, was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta. He recalled going to see a late-night show called the midnight ramble, where the jokes were spicier and the girls did a little hoochie-coochie dance.
#2 Arkansas was a state that had never fully recovered from the Civil War. The economy had been devastated by the Great Depression, and slavery was replaced...
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#1 Selena and I had always been friendly around each other, but professional. I had joined her band a year before, and we had traveled to Mexico together. I had noticed that Selena was lively and outgoing, while I was quiet and observant.
#2 I began to notice Selena's physical presence, her body tempting me even though she always wore cover-ups over her bikini. I tried...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir...
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