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6 Orange highlight | Location: 364 It was many, many years ago. Then women ruled the land of the Agikuyu. Men had no property, they were only there to serve the whims and needs of the women. Those were hard years. So they waited for women to go to war, they plotted a revolt, taking an...

9 Yellow highlight | Page: 3 Oingo Boingo, “Dead Man’s Party,” MCA Records, 1985. Yellow highlight | Page: 59 The ongoing energy crisis contributed greatly to the OASIS’s runaway popularity. The skyrocketing cost of oil made airline and automobile travel too expensive for the average citizen, and the OASIS became the only getaway most people could afford. Yellow highlight...

22 Yellow highlight | Page: 2 Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing ... Yellow highlight | Page: 19 And so I came along in time to know the end of the age of steamboating. I would learn later that there had been other ages of the river that I had arrived too late to...