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How did Gutenberg’s printing process work? This engraving of the printing process, by Theodor Galle, is based on an earlier work - Nova R...
Around September of 1452, using his invention that changed the world, Gutenberg first released a publication from his movable-type printing press.
Huck Finn tells us that Jim, Miss Watson's African-American helper, tells great stories which travel far and wide.
Taking much of what Tom Sawyer says literally, Huck Finn thinks he can actually summon a genie by rubbing on an old tin can.
After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.
During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.
John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Field," is often recited on Veterans' Day. Learn the story behind the poem. It is one of the most-quoted war poems in...
Irish girls who had personal or familial issues in their lives were sometimes removed from their homes and sent to places known as "Magdalene Laundrie...
The Irish Poor Laws, intended to help the most-desperate people of the country, actually harmed them when landowners who were responsible for tenant f...
As economic conditions grew desperate for Irish people, during the potato famine, residents of entire villages abandoned their homeland in search for ...
Because Jacob Marley cared little for his fellow man during his lifetime, his Ghost carries a long, heavy, ponderous chain.
Learn about this famous author through the work of Ten Great Writers of the Modern World - James Joyce's Ulysses"
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