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#OTD 1885 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics)
"All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Ernest Hemingway
To escape from his violent and dr...
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I love the two books .....Adventures of Tom Sawyer is also good. I had to pick a few books to take with me for the intake part of state prison and those were the first to I had mailed to me in county jail ....the only disappointment came when I realized I read much faster than I did in third grade l... View More
- February 18, 2022
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#OTD 1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes first King of Italy
Who Was the First King of Italy?
On 18 February 1861, Victor Emanuele, the soldier King of Piedmont-Sardinia, began to call himself the ruler of a united Italy after stunning success...
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#OTD 1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder
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The Pilgrim's Progress
The wonderful adventures of Christian, the Pilgrim, on the King's highway. How he passed the lions and fought a dragon; escaped from the prison of Giant Despair; visited the Palace Beautiful and the s...
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#OTD 1519 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500 men
Hernan Cortes | Expeditions, Biography, & Facts
Hernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain. The key to his conquests lay in the political crisis within the Aztec empire; Cortes...
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Sadducees
The Sadducees were part of the upper-class aristocrats and provided much of the priesthood, categorized through the lineage of priestly houses. They served on the Sanhedrin, the city council that orga...
Battle of Dunbar in 1650
The battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650 between the English Parliament’s New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and Scotland’s army led by David Leslie (c. 1600-1682) was one of the last.....
Philistines
The Philistines populated the coastal regions of Canaan from the 12th century BCE to their disappearance in 604 BCE. The word
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Language Death—The Case of Akkadian
The phenomenon of language death is as old as the recorded history of the world’s languages, if not as old as language itself. Languages affected by this phenomenon are usually referred to as dead or ...
Schmalkaldic War
The Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) was fought between the Protestant Schmalkaldic League and the Catholic armies under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who, having failed to achieve religious unity of his...
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