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3 days ago · William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
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Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. She was...
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- Literary Criticism
William Shakespeare - Poetry, Plays, Sonnets: During his own...
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Shakespeare spent his early life in Stratford-upon-Avon,...
- Romeo and Juliet
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I would there were no age between sixteen and...
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sonnet, fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14...
- Anne Hathaway
3 days ago · Descartes accepted, and moved to the Swedish Empire in the middle of winter. Christina was interested in and stimulated Descartes to publish The Passions of the Soul. He was a guest at the house of Pierre Chanut, living on Västerlånggatan, less than 500 meters from Castle Tre Kronor in Stockholm.
5 days ago · It told the story of the average American, white, middle-class family, the trials and tribulations of suburban living with school pickups, menial middle-management jobs and the day-to-day struggles of family life with four young boys.
4 days ago · Grigori Rasputin, Siberian peasant and mystic whose ability to improve the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne, made him a favorite at the court of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.
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3 days ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [pron 1] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
3 days ago · Abbots and priors maintained large households which (although small by secular standards), grew rapidly in the late 15th and early 16th centuries: in early Tudor England, the largest abbatial households had over 100 members.
3 days ago · Herod I or Herod the Great (c. 72 BCE – c. 4 BCE) was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea. [4] [5] [6] He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea . Among these works are the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base [7] [8] [9] —the Western Wall being part of it.
