Ralph Barton Perry

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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

9 Mind-Altering Plants

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

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Born	July 3, 1876 • Vermont
Died	January 22, 1957 (aged 80) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize

Charles Edward Russell

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Laura E. Richards

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Henry Adams

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Robert Caro

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David McCullough

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Allan Nevins

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Leon Edel

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Justin Kaplan

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Samuel Eliot Morison

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Douglas Southall Freeman

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Richard Ellmann

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Albert J. Beveridge

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W. Jackson Bate

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Carl Van Doren

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Ray Stannard Baker

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Garry Wills

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Pearl S. Buck

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John Berryman

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Wallace Stegner

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Jane Smiley

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