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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”

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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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Causes of the Great Depression

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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6 Important Mughal Emperors

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Also Known As	Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
Born	September 7, 1889 • Barnstaple • England
Died	October 22, 1919 (aged 30) • England
Notable Works	“The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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James Boswell

Scottish biographer

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John Evelyn

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Sir Harold Nicolson

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Simon Gray

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James Agate

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Sidney Colvin

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Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Charles Dickens

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William Blake

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