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I absolutely love Hamilton watches. Quartz, mechanical or automatic, they make for awesome field watches. One of their most iconic dial is the Khaki Field Mechanical. I purchased the brown dial variant from Jomashop when I was still a bit green when it came to understanding watch measurements. As someone with a small and flat…
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I was extremely saddened to have learned that WWE Legend Psycho Sid (Sid Eudy) has passed away on August 26th, 2024 at the age of just 64. It was only a coincidence that I learned of his passing. On about August 29th, for whatever reason I can’t recall, wanted to hear Psycho Sid’s entrance theme…
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Here at The Mindless Catalog, I want to dedicate my first post to what led me to create this blog in the first place: retired NBA superstar, Carmelo Anthony. After a friendly debate with a good friend on who in the NBA, past or present, has the most beautiful jumper, I wanted to start my…
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson talks about Britain’s involvement and defiance in Germany’s invasion of World War II. In particular, it focuses on Britain’s newly elected prime minister, Winston Churchill, and his first year in office when Britain was constantly bombed by…
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright goes over in spectacular details one of the more popular cult-like religion that started in the late 1950s that is still spreading its roots all over the world today. With billions of dollars in the church’s coffers along with its huge influence in…
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman follows the lives of three steel plant workers at the Rexnord factory in Indianapolis and how it affected them when the plant moved production to Mexico and shut down around 2017. After having just completed The Lords of Easy Money, I was fascinated…
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard goes in-depth about how one of the America’s central bank, with once having limited powers, has slowly over the decades extended their reach via monetary policies to affect pretty much everyone in the country for better or worst. It’s…
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid goes over one of the first documented evidence of an assassination attempt at the highest level of the United States government against a foreign politician during the Congo’s fight for independence in the 1960s. What a story…
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know by Dov Waxman aims to educate readers on one of the longest ongoing wars ever. Rather than retelling stories and interviews from both sides of the war, the book is rather much more simple in nature: answering some of the most asked questions about the war without…
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A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni is a tale of greed, secrets, jealousy and murder set in the Seattle’s Prohibition era of the 1930s. Truth be told, I found the story to be completely average. Average enough, you could draw a line straight down the middle. There wasn’t really anything inherently breathtaking with…
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