Henri Frédéric Amiel

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

7 Notable Paintings in Switzerland

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5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Why New York Is Called "The Big Apple" and How 8 Other Famous Cities Got Their Nicknames

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America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

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Why Is It Called Black Friday?

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8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

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11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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11 Banned Books Through Time

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10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

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Born	September 27, 1821 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died	May 11, 1881 (aged 59) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Journal intime”

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Adolf Wölfli

Swiss artist, writer, and musician

Stefano Franscini

Swiss statesman

Peter Bichsel

Swiss author

Robert Walser

Swiss writer

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Swiss writer

Peider Lansel

Romansh poet

Adolf Frey

Swiss writer and historian

Meinrad Inglin

Swiss author

Konrad Kujau

German author

Edmond Goncourt

French author

Jules Goncourt

French author

Samuel Pepys

English diarist and naval administrator

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

André Gide

French writer

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

George Fox

English religious leader

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Günter Grass

German writer

Anne Frank

German diarist

Frances Burney

British author

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