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Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (rewrote in near-entirety and expanded) "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan is a 1999 book by Edmund Morris, and the first authorized biography of an incumbent U.S. president. It details the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his postpresidency, from the point of view of a heavily fictionalized version of the author, who portrays himself as a contemporary and lifelong friend of Reagan. Numerous other imagined characters, including a fictional wife and son of Morris, and a gossip columnist whose nonexistent correspondence Morris cites, feature as well. To write Dutch, Morris spoke to Reagan over a period of thirteen years and was granted special access to the Reagan administration and the White House. He found the information that he gained unsatisfactory, which led him to write a semi-autobiographical novel rather than a normal biography. Upon its publication by Random House, Dutch faced immediate controversy, as critics disagreed with Morris' use of fictional elements within an ostensibly biographical work that the Reagan family had trusted him to write factually."
Peter Tyrrell (rewrote, expanded and added the image) "Peter Tyrrell (1916 – 26 April 1967) was an Irish author and activist. When he was eight years old, the authorities sent him to St Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfrack, an institution run by the Christian Brothers. He suffered extreme physical and sexual abuse at the Christian Brothers' hands until he was released from the school when he was sixteen. He became a tailor by trade, emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1935 and in the same year enlisted in the British Army. For four months in 1944, he was held as a prisoner-of-war in the German camp Stalag XI-B. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Tyrrell campaigned against corporal punishment and religious abuses in institutions. In 1967, feeling that his efforts to enact change were unsuccessful, he burnt himself alive on Hampstead Heath in London. In 2006, his memoir Founded on Fear, in which he told the story of his life and condemned the abuse he suffered at Letterfrack, was published posthumously by the Irish Academic Press after historian Diarmuid Whelan discovered the manuscript in the papers of politician Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, with whom Tyrrell had had a long correspondence."
LinkedIn (rewrote lead) "... LinkedIn has been subject to criticism over its design choices, such as its endorsement feature and its use of members' e-mail accounts to send spam mail. Due to LinkedIn's poor security practices, several incidents have occurred with the website, including in 2012, when the cryptographic hashes of approximately 6.4 million users were stolen and published online; and in 2016, when 117 million LinkedIn usernames and passwords (likely sourced from the 2012 hack) were offered for sale. The platform has also been criticised for its poor handling of misinformation and disinformation, particularly pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the 2020 US presidential election. Various countries have placed bans or restrictions on LinkedIn: it was banned in Russia in 2016, Kazakhstan in 2021, and China in 2023."
Structuralist theory of mythology (added lead) "The structuralist theory of mythology is a method of analyzing mythology, in which the mythology is treated as if it follows the same structure and rules as language. The method was devised by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who claimed that myth, like language, can be broken down into constituents (which he called 'mythemes' in the case of mythology). Each constituent could then be addressed separately but, at the same time, compared and contrasted with the other constituents. The structuralist method differs from the symbolist method, which instead seeks meaning solely within the constituents and not between them."
Operation Torch order of battle (added lead) "Operation Torch was the Allied invasion of French North Africa between 8 and 16 November 1942 during World War II. It was intended to distract the Axis forces from the Eastern front and thereby relieve the Soviet Union of the pressure it was facing to fight them. The invasion led to Oran's surrender on 10 November and France's agreement to an armistice with the Allies. Involved were British and American forces, organized into the Western, Central and Eastern task forces, which landed on beaches near Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, respectively."
Telecommunications in Brunei (added lead) "Brunei possesses an extensive system of telecommunications, including telephone and mobile phone service, internet service, television and radio. The majority of Bruneians have access to these services: for every 100 Bruneians there are 118 mobile phone subscriptions, and 99% of the population uses the internet. The official radio and television network, Radio Television Brunei (RTB), operates five channels, and satellite systems make foreign broadcasts accessible as well."
Jacob Nufer (rewrote) "In 1500, Nufer's wife, a woman named Elisabeth Alespachin, went into labour. Several days later, when she was still unable to expel the infant, Nufer decided to cut the foetus out of her. After obtaining permission from authorities, he summoned thirteen midwives, though only two were wiling to remain in the room during the operation. Nufer proceeded to open Alespachin's uterus with a single incision, remove the infant, and, in the same manner he would suture a pig after operating upon its genitalia, sew the wound closed. As was commonplace for gynaecological surgeries at the time, Nufer likely did not suture the uterus. The infant was in good health. After the operation, Alespachin bore five more children, including twins, throughout the rest of her life.
"The case was not reported upon until eighty years after the fact, in 1582, by Caspar Bauhin in his Latin translation of French physician Francois Rousset's obstetrical treatise Traitte Nouveau de l'hysterotomotokie, ou enfantement Caesarien. The fact of Alespachin's subsequent uncomplicated vaginal deliveries has led historians to doubt Bauhin's account of the operation and speculate that the pregnancy may have been extrauterine."
Acrogeria (added description) "The most characteristic symptom of acrogeria is thin, atrophic skin with mottled pigmentation and telangiectasia, most severe in the limbs and extremities. This is accompanied by easy bruising, hyperkeratosis, and a loss of subcutaneous fat, which is replaced by connective tissue. Patients have a facies with a pinched face, hollow cheeks, prominent eyes without exophthalmos, a beak-like nose and thin lips. Though the hair and nails are normal in many cases, alopecia and nail dystrophies, such as onychogryphosis and koilonychia, have been reported. Stature is short in some patients and normal in others. The general skeletal structure is unremarkable, but acrogeria results in delayed closure of the cranial sutures, notching of the mandible, and micrognathia; and may also coincide with spina bifida, clubfoot and congenital dislocation of the hips. Sexual development, including the development of secondary sex characteristics, is normal, and so is intelligence. There is no correlation of acrogeria with metabolic, opthamological or cardiovascular disorders, and patients have a normal life expectancy. Similarities between the clinical features of acrogeria and Werner's syndrome have been observed."
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