Johannes Reuchlin

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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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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Born	February 22, 1455 • Pforzheim • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died	June 6, 1522 (aged 67) • Germany
Notable Works	“De Rudimentis Hebraicis”
Subjects Of Study	Classical Greek language • Hebrew language

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Wilhelm Gesenius

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David Kimhi

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Profiat Duran

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Ibn Janāḥ

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Dunash Ben Labrat

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F.W. Ritschl

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Conradus Celtis

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Ulrich von Hutten

German knight

Theodor Benfey

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Otto von Böhtlingk

Russian linguist

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Swiss-German linguist

Friedrich Christian Diez

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Johann Christoph Adelung

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Julius Pokorny

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Horace

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François Rabelais

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Petrarch

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Lorenzo Valla

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