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  A Small Truth a Day - 366 Notes...

  Rowan Linton

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  Most people do not lose years to dramatic disasters. They lose them to small, repeated inner bargains — tiny self-deceptions about work, money, ambition, and relationships that quietly rebuild an entire life from the inside out. A Small Truth a Day is a 366-note companion that names those bargains out loud and gives you a practical way to dismantle them, one day at a time. Drawing on the Stoic philosophy of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius — a slave, a millionaire, and an emperor — Rowan Linton shows that the ideas forged under captivity, exile, and plague are not historical curiosities. They are among the most accurate psychological tools ever devised for navigating ordinary life. Each of the book's nineteen chapters explores a distinct territory: the mechanics of perception and judgment, the discipline of the pause between stimulus and response, the dichotomy of control, working with anger and fear and desire, the trap of wealth and the illusion of more, the irreversible nature of time, grief and mortality, friendship and difficult people, citizenship and duty, and the quiet work of composing a life worth inhabiting.

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  Survival Under Atomic Attack A...

  US Office Civil Defense

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  Survival Under Atomic Attack is a film produced in 1951 by the U.S. Office of Civil Defense during the early Cold War era. Narrated by journalist Edward R. Murrow, the film was designed to educate American civilians on how to respond during a nuclear attack. The film outlines the three main dangers of an atomic bomb—blast, heat, and radiation—and provides practical advice for protection.

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  Friars and Filipinos

  José Rizal

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  Friars and Filipinos is a critical and satirical essay in which José Rizal examines the deep-rooted influence of the Spanish colonial friars on Philippine society and governance. Written in response to an article by a Spanish writer, Rizal systematically critiques the hypocrisy, greed, and abuses of power committed by the religious orders, exposing how they manipulated both faith and politics to maintain control over the Filipino people. He contrasts their corruption with the dignity, intelligence, and potential of the Filipino native, advocating for justice, reform, and national consciousness. With clarity and passion, Rizal calls for an end to clerical dominance and the recognition of Filipino rights. This essay stands as a powerful indictment of colonial oppression and a vital piece of the intellectual foundation for Philippine nationalism.

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  Afghanistan War - A History from...

  Hourly History

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  On September 11, 2001, the United States faced the most devastating terrorist attack in world history when members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist fundamentalist movement, hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed them into buildings in New York and Washington, DC. Nearly three thousand people died in these attacks, and one month later, US President George W. Bush announced the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, a military operation intended to remove the Taliban in Afghanistan and ensure that terrorists from al-Qaeda had no safe haven in that country. 
  Most people assumed that the conflict would be short, but this would become America’s longest war. US and NATO troops would remain in Afghanistan for 20 years until their final withdrawal in 2021. During that period, around a quarter of million people died in Afghanistan, many of them civilians, and expenditure by the US government alone is believed to have exceeded $2.3 trillion. 
  What was the outcome of this protracted and destructive war? The Taliban, the people Operation Enduring Freedom was intended to remove, are back in control of Afghanistan, whose ordinary citizens currently face poverty and famine. How can that be? How can a war prosecuted for 20 years by some of the richest nations on Earth fail to defeat a rag-tag guerilla army or to achieve lasting change in Afghanistan? This is the complex and tragic story of the Afghanistan War from 2001 to 2021.

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  Banco Central Heist The:...

  James G. Edwards II

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  It wasn’t just a robbery—it was an engineering marvel disguised as a crime. 
   
  In August 2005, a crew of thieves in Fortaleza, Brazil, pulled off one of the largest bank heists in history. By digging a tunnel stretching nearly 80 meters beneath the city, they reached the Banco Central’s vault and made off with almost $70 million in unmarked bills. No alarms. No violence. Just silence, dirt, and methodical brilliance. 
   
  The Banco Central Heist: Brazil’s Underground Coup (2005) tells the mind-blowing true story of how this crew outwitted a nation’s financial safeguards using deception, discipline, and raw determination. From a fake landscaping business to expertly-laid tunnels and airtight planning, their operation shocked the world and changed bank security forever.

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  1984 Nomination Acceptance Address

  Ronald Reagan

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  On August 23, 1984, at the Dallas Convention Center, Reagan accepts the presidential nomination of the Republican party. Reagan reminds Democrats of the high inflation and interest rates when he took office in 1980 and claims Democrats “never met a tax they didn't like or hike.”  
  In 1981 “we started a policy of tightening the Federal budget instead of the family budget.” Reagan cites an improved “misery index” (the total of the inflation and unemployment rates) and improved poverty levels.  
  “In the 4 years before we took office, country after country fell under the Soviet yoke. Since January 20th, 1981, not 1 inch of soil has fallen to the Communists.” (long applause)  
  America is “more confident than ever” with “the strongest economic growth” and “the fastest rate of job creation”.  
  We support NATO, Israel, and free Latin American States that “struggle to prevent Communist takeovers fueled massively by the Soviet Union and Cuba.” We rescued “American students on the imprisoned island of Grenada.” 
  We oppose deficits, and support a balanced budget amendment, the line-item veto, tuition tax credits, enterprise zones, and lower taxes. There is no room for anti-Semitism or bigotry in the party of Lincoln. 
  With America at peace, “we’re in the midst of a springtime of hope” and see America as “a shining city on a hill.” We look forward to “the Olympic Games here in the United States” and marvel “at the journey of the Olympic torch” across our country. 
  Audio recording courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.  
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