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Be honest and true, boys! Whatever you do, boys, Let this be your motto through life. Both now and forever, Be this your endeavor, When wrong with the right is at strife. The best and the truest, Alas! are the fewest; But be one of these if you can. In duty ne'er fail; you Will find 'twill avail you, And bring its reward when a man. Don't think life plain sailing; There's danger of failing, Though bright seem the future to be; But honor and labor, And truth to your neighbor, Will bear you safe over life's sea. Then up and be doing, Right only pursuing, And take your fair part in the strife. Be honest and true, boys, Whatever you do, boys, Let this be your motto through life!

To our readers who enjoy Jason Mamoa in a bubble bath and/or general fans of the 2020 Rocket Mortgage Super Bowl LIV commercial... We are sorry to inform you that the book Standing in Front of a Sunset by Michael Corbeille is simply a generic romance novel prop created for this Super Bowl ad. Michael Corbeille is the Executive Creative Director for Quicken Loans which is the parent company of Rocket Mortgage. Maybe someday he'll let us in on the secret of what Jason Mamoa thinks of as "juicy". We'd like to know for research purposes. Also, does anyone else notice that the guy on the book cover appears to be Mamoa too? See more pop culture "book" connections

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of established Swedish figures. So when a young journalist named Dag Svensson approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

The Sands of Space by Jeremiah Hargrove is a ficticious (fake) book that Krusty the Clown wanted to turn into a movie after his previous success with Good Cop Dog Cop in S30E14, The Clown Stays in the Picture . The Sands of Space is a reference to several books and films including Dune , The Sands of Mars , Zardoz, and Krull .

Following a bedridden professor and his growing dissolution in 17th century Prussia

December 2002. Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of the Swedish political magazine Millennium, loses a libel case involving allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. He is sentenced to three months in prison, and ordered to pay hefty damages and costs. Soon afterwards, he is invited to meet Henrik Vanger, the retired CEO of the Vanger Corporation, unaware that he had commissioned an investigation into Blomkvist's personal and professional history. This was carried out by Lisbeth Salander, a surveillance agent with Milton Security. girl with the dragon tattoo Blomkvist is promised considerable financial reward and solid evidence against Wennerstrom, in exchange for writing the Vanger family history. Vanger believes that his great-niece, Harriet, was murdered by a member of the family 36 years earlier. Blomkvist moves to the Vanger estate and begins his research into the history of the Vanger family and Harriet's disappearance.

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters. The first group is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, and disillusioned Axis military and intelligence figures whom they encounter. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.