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9 Obscure Literary Terms
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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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6 Lost Civilizations
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11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
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Born c.254 BCE • Italy
Died 184 BCE
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Marcus Pacuvius
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Decimus Laberius
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Publilius Syrus
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William Shakespeare
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Molière
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Voltaire
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
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Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
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David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
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Pierre Corneille
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