William Caxton

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Mesopotamian Religion. Cuneiform tablet in the British Museum, London, England, 7th Century BC, describing the Flood Epic, a deluge story in the Epic of Gilgamesh added as Tablet XI to the ten original tablets of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who copied or altered parts of the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. (flood tablet, Neo Assyrian, clay tablet)

What Was the First Book Ever Written?

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Lay, Lie, Lied, Lain: When Do We Use Which?

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History of Technology Timeline

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Where Is “Old Zealand”?

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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Born	c.1422 • Kent • England
Died	1491 • London • England
Notable Works	“Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers” • “The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye”

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Anthony Munday

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John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

English statesman and author

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Josuah Sylvester

English writer

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Harriet Martineau

British author

Richard Howard

American author

Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye

Ethiopian author

Gregorio Martínez Sierra

Spanish dramatist

Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston

John Ogilby

British printer

Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier

Jacques Delille

French writer

Alexander Pope

English author

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Thomas Morley

British composer

Nicholas Udall

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Sir Victor Gollancz

British author and publisher

George Chapman

English writer

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Sir Edmund Gosse

British critic and writer

Sir Thomas North

English translator

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