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The Voyage to Tsushima: Rodjdestvensky's Russian Fleet, the Dogger Bank Incident & the Russo-Japanese War at Sea, 1904-05-From Libau to Tsushima with Two Short Accounts of the North Sea Incident

by Eugene S. Politovsky

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The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine

by Andrew Cockburn

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The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin, #19)

by Patrick O'Brian

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Book cover for The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

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in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and ...more

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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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