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and the foundations were laid for the creation of rock 'n' roll

Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood — such as how tides work — along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the “Bernoulli sub” and the “artificial aurora” created by hydrogen bombs

Bea teaches English to high-school thugs who mock her love of Wordsworth and Keats

reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and struggling—both together and individually—to weather poverty

and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine examinations

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