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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

Citizen Journalists

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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017

What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

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Born	October 19, 1817 • Durham • England
Died	July 12, 1880 (aged 62) • Wandsworth • England
Notable Works	“Our American Cousin”

Malcolm Muggeridge

British journalist and social critic

Douglas William Jerrold

English playwright, journalist, and humorist

Charles Dickens

British novelist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Tom Stoppard

British writer

Tina Brown

English American magazine editor

Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright

Jennie Jerome Churchill

British socialite and writer

Alasdair Gray

Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist

J.R. Ackerley

British writer and editor

Samuel Johnson

English author

James Joyce

Irish author

Henry Fielding

English author

Joseph Addison

English author

Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

Leigh Hunt

British author

John Pepper Clark

Nigerian author

Curzio Malaparte

Italian writer

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