William Lauder

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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

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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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

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.

What Is the Emoluments Clause?

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2019. (Meghan Markle, British royalty)

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

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Died	1771 • Barbados • West Indies
Notable Works	“An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost”

Samuel Johnson

English author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

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

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Beattie, detail of an engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by an unknown artist

James Beattie

Scottish poet

Andrew Russell Forsyth

British mathematician

Alexander Chalmers

Scottish author and editor

Charles Dickens

British novelist

William Blake

British writer and artist

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

John Donne

English poet

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

James Joyce

Irish author

Edward Gibbon

British historian

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Henry James

American writer

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

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