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2 days ago · In the 21st century, much of LGBT literature has achieved a high level of sophistication and many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include Alan Hollinghurst, Michael Cunningham, Colm Tóibín, John Boyne, and Andrew Sean Greer. Greer, an openly gay man, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less.
5 days ago · The global spread of the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. [1] Western printing technology was adopted in all world regions by the end of the 19th century, displacing the manuscript and block printing . In the Western world, the operation of a press ...
2 days ago · The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and republican ...
1 day ago · Burton from the east in 1732. The feoffees financed the town's early improvements in public welfare, such as street paving and lighting. (fn. 7h) A body of improvement commissioners was established under an Act of 1779, and their first action was to lay a sewer along High Street.
2 days ago · The Little Ice Age ( LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. [2] It was not a true ice age of global extent. [3] The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939. [4]
2 days ago · The film was the seventh most popular sound film of the twentieth century in the UK with admissions of 19.8 million. The film is France's ninth biggest film in terms of admissions with 14.8 million tickets sold. The film's 1993 re-release set an overseas record for a re-issue, grossing $67.5 million overseas during that year.
2 days ago · C. S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of ...
