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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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11 Lesser-Known, Mostly Contemporary Paintings You Should Hunt Down the Next Time You’re in London

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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The Fastest Animals on Earth

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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6 Important Mughal Emperors

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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6 Wars of Independence

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Born	November 12, 1886 • London • England
Died	December 18, 1980 (aged 94) • London • England

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Matthew Arnold

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Henry James

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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W. H. Auden

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Martin McDonagh

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Graham Greene

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Stephen Fry

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Ben Elton

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