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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Britannica’s Book Bingo

10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

9 American Countercultural Books

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION

Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Also Known As	James Leslie Mitchell
Born	February 13, 1901 • Scotland
Died	February 7, 1935 (aged 33) • Welwyn Garden City • England
Notable Works	“A Scots Quair”
Movement / Style	Scottish renaissance

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

British statesman and author

Alasdair Gray

Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

George Blake

British writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

J.M. Barrie

Scottish author

Arthur Conan Doyle

British author

Lockhart, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1830

John Gibson Lockhart

Scottish biographer

Neil Miller Gunn

Scottish author

A.J. Cronin

British author

John Galt

Scottish author and administrator

George Mackay Brown

Scottish writer

Margaret Oliphant, detail of a drawing by J.M. Oliphant, 1895

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant

Scottish writer

Edwin Muir

Scottish writer

James Hogg

Scottish poet

Josephine Tey

Scottish author

Henry Mackenzie

Scottish author

George Macdonald

British author

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