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9 Obscure Literary Terms
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Periods of American Literature
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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds
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9 American Countercultural Books
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Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
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9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals
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How Do You Tell the Difference Between Total, Annular, Solar, and Lunar Eclipses?
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Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69
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Born 1660 • Ireland
Died May 26, 1746 (aged 86) • London • England
Notable Works “Oroonoko” • “The Fatal Marriage”

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Irish playwright
Micheál MacLiammóir
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George Farquhar
Irish dramatist
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James Plunkett
Irish writer
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