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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 Classical Music Composers to Know

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10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

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Timeline of the 1990s

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.

What Is the Emoluments Clause?

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9 Memorials and Monuments in the United States

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7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

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7 Deadliest Weapons in History

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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Key People

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

German composer

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

British writer

Umeki, Miyoshi; Buttons, Red: Sayonara

Joshua Logan

American director and producer

Joseph Stein

American librettist

Russel Crouse

American dramatist

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and lyricist

David Henry Hwang, 2008

David Henry Hwang

American playwright

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

Pietro Metastasio.

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian composer

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

Quiz

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Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz

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A Music Lesson