Johann Christoph Gottsched

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Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

Did George Washington Really Say, “I Can’t Tell a Lie”?

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How Does Wi-Fi Work?

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6 Unusual Olympic Sports

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Periods of American Literature

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Born	February 2, 1700 • Russia
Died	December 12, 1766 (aged 66) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works	“Ausführliche Redekunst” • “Der Biedermann” • “Deutsche Schaubühne” • “Die vernünftigen Tadlerinnen” • “Grundlegung einer deutschen Sprachkunst” • “Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen”
Subjects Of Study	French literature • German literature • dramatic literature • poetry

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Paul Ernst

Paul Ernst

German writer

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Werfel, Franz

Franz Werfel

German writer

Gerstenberg, engraving

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

German writer

Georg Philipp Harsdörfer

German poet

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles

Charles Lamb

British author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

John Jay Chapman.

John Jay Chapman

American writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu

Antonin Artaud

French author and actor

Karl Kraus

Austrian writer