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  • and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...
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  • known for his home-bred screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred ... He first pursued a career as an architect before being drawn to the ...
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  • diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...
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  • prominence as a war correspondent during the first World War. He and his ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...
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  • Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... == The American landscape == In The Beginning, All the World was America ...
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  • from Mississippi who is regarded as one of America's most influential ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...
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  • |region2 = United States (New York) |pop2 = 15,000 ... The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ...
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  • Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... The origins of slang are usually found in the desire of those members ...
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  • was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in ... This is notable because Balzac wrote during the Romantic era, a period in ...
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  • Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms are counted among the "Writings ...
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  • from 1985-90, was elected president for the second time in 2006. For much ... After a popular rebellion resulted in the overthrow and exile of dictator ...
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  • The Tower of London (known historically simply as The Tower), is an ... The Tower of London is sometimes identified with the White Tower, ...
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  • and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...
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  • African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...
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  • novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...
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  • Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...
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  • The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... Its geographic position as a small, wedge-shaped country between the ...
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  • – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...
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  • Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... Works of philosophy, history, economics, journalism, and most fiction ...
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  • and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the sensual ... Award in 2010. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame ...
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  • activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string ... known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with ...
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  • He composed over 300 works comprised of operas, symphonies, oratorios ... Camille Saint-Saëns's sensitive renderings of using instruments ...
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  • ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...
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  • |name = United States Military Academy |image = [[Image:Cadet ... |country = United States |undergrad = |postgrad = ...
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  • singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead singer and predominant ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...
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  • is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the ... Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ...
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  • | WHS = Archaeological Site of Troy | Image = [[Image:Troy1.jpg|300px|Walls of the excavated city ...
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  • travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... Stevenson was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on ...
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  • composer, pianist, and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...
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  • actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern ... school plays and wrote poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...
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  • in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...
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  • in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors ... for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in ...
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  • Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...
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  • as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...
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  • The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...
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  • The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...
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  • Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism ... Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original ...
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  • The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect ... are aimed at delineating and reifying these two disparate realms through ...
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  • music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s ... and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most ...
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  • cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general ... Once the seeds of flamenco were planted in Andalusia, it grew as a ...
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  • 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government ...
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  • The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...
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  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. Periodically independent since the late Middle Ages, and an internationally ...
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  • a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...
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  • England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...
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  • Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... in accord with nature and natural law. On the other hand, many cultures ...
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  • A novel is a longer work of narrative fiction compared to a novella ... for "new," "news," or "short story of something ...
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