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1 day ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- Charles Dickens
- 544 (first edition 1861)
- 1860
- Novel, Bildungsroman
1 day ago · Print MAY 2024. The Little Village is a neighborhood Detroiters never knew existed. Its revitalization is being led by Anthony and JJ Curis, a pair of globally savvy social engineers and maverick real-estate investors. Together they cofounded the galleries Library Street Collective (in 2012) and Louis Buhl & Co. (in 2020).
1 day ago · History of Michigan By year Pre-statehood U.S. Civil War Since 1900 Topics: Cities - Politics Michigan portal Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great ...
1 day ago · In October 2022 four men, three women and three young people, aged between five and 59, died in an explosion at a service station. Ten people died in the explosion (Brian Lawless/PA) The new centre will replace an already-operating community hub on Main Street in the village.
2 hours ago · 10029, 10035. Area code. 212, 332, 646, and 917. East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
1 day ago · Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. The Torah and Talmud prescribe stoning as punishment for a number of offenses. Over the centuries, Rabbinic Judaism ...
