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		<title>August 2007 Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Second World War, in one of his many letters to English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt quipped, &#8220;It is fun to be in the same decade with you.&#8221; When Neville Chamberlain offered his resignation to King George VI in 1939, the king asked Chamberlain to name his successor, as was customary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Woman Who Made Iraq&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a terrific article in the June issue of The Atlantic by Christopher Hitchens in which he details the involvement of a woman named Gertrude Bell in the early formation of a country whose name every single American recognizes. Friend to both T.E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill, Bell was a British diplomat and spy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/07/02/the-woman-who-made-iraq/</link>
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		<title>The 2 F-words You Should Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great post from lifehack.org, one of my favorite blogs. History has many fine examples of how persevering individuals turned failure into triumph&#8230; Enjoy.]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/06/28/the-2-f-words-you-should-love/</link>
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		<title>An Interview with Ralph Echols (1922-2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003 I had the pleasure of interviewing Ralph Echols, a World War II veteran who fought against the Japanese in northern Burma, at his home in north Dallas. Surrounded by his family, Mr. Echols relayed his experiences, some of which his children and grandchildren had never heard. This was one of the very first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/03/30/an-interview-with-ralph-echols-1922-2006/</link>
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		<title>The 600th Anniversary of Zheng He</title>
		<description><![CDATA[70 years before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in search of a water route to Asia, the Chinese were exploring the Indian Ocean and western Pacific with seven maritime expeditions that solidified themselves as the major power in Asia. In 2005 China celebrated the 600th anniversary of the first voyage of the navigator and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/03/28/the-600th-anniversary-of-zheng-he/</link>
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		<title>April 2007 Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love. Sex. Betrayal. Scandal. Taboo. All the ingredients for a great story. This month&#8217;s read is no exception. What makes it so interesting is that it is all true. At the end of the 18th century, England and France were engaged in a global conflict that spanned three continents and every ocean. India was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/03/28/april-2007-read/</link>
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		<title>March 2007 Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the 19th century drew to a close, the word &#8220;Panama&#8221; was synonymous with failure. The French, amid scandals and financial ruin for throngs of public investors, had ceased operations to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Thousands of workers had already died on &#8220;the Isthmus&#8221;, great fortunes had been made and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lafayette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is perhaps convenient for us as Americans to believe that our struggle for independence in the latter half of the 18th century was solely due to the efforts of like-minded volunteer militia and well-heeled gentry of the original 13 colonies. The legends of men like Paul Revere and Daniel Morgan have rolled down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 2007 Reads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people believe that World War II was largely the result of the &#8220;bad peace&#8221; negotiated at the end of World War I. Much unwarranted blame has been laid at the feet of Woodrow Wilson and his peers for the series of events which followed the truce signed by all parties in 1918. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/03/28/february-2007-reads/</link>
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		<title>January 2005 Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Zinn is perhaps best known for his landmark 1980 book A People&#8217;s History of the United States which offers a chronicle of American history from Columbus through Clinton&#8217;s presidency through the eyes of &#8220;the street, the home, and the workplace.&#8221; This popular book pokes holes in traditional history&#8217;s treatment of events and people and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thinkaboutit.com/blog3/2007/03/28/january-2005/</link>
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