Octave Pirmez

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

9 American Countercultural Books

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Neon sign of the word BAR hanging in a bar that serves alcoholic drinks. Alcohol drinking

Pro and Con: Lowering the Drinking Age

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Group of black and white cows in a pasture, Waltshire, England.

Are Cows Really Unable to Walk Down Stairs?

Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro

Why Is Christmas in December?

Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

7 Winter Solstice Celebrations From Around the World

How Did the Tradition of Christmas Trees Start?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Born	April 19, 1832 • Belgium
Died	May 1, 1883 (aged 51)

Marcel Thiry

Belgian author

Paul Willems

Belgian author

Charles Plisnier

Belgian author

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Paul de Wispelaere

Belgian-Flemish author and critic

Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne

Belgian military officer and author

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Leslie Marmon Silko

American author

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

British author

Charles Lamb

British author

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

French author

Paul de Man

American literary critic

Marcel Broodthaers

Belgian artist

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian author

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet

Hendrik Conscience

Belgian novelist

André Baillon

Belgian author

Michel de Ghelderode

Belgian dramatist

Dominique Rolin

Belgian author

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