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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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6 Wars of Independence

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Were the Nazis Socialists?

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Key People

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

British author

John le Carré

John le Carré

British writer

Ambler, Eric

Eric Ambler

British author

Helen Clark MacInnes

American author

Len Deighton

English writer

Oppenheim, E. Phillips

E. Phillips Oppenheim

British author

Robert Ludlum

American writer