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Invasion of alien spaceships at sunset, illustration.

The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 Was Sci-Fi Passed Off as News

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick T. Stuart, c. about 1845

The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), oil on canvas painting from the second half of the 16th century; in the collection of the Ambras Castle, Innsbruck.

Was Dracula a Real Person?

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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.

26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History

pg 229Nazi parade features a banner proclaiming, "Death to Marxism."The possibility of a peaceful Germany after World War I was precluded entirely by the terms of the Versailles Treaty and theintransigent hostility of France and England. Stripped of indu

Were the Nazis Socialists?

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Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

American writer

Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley

American author

Frances Lockridge

American mystery writer

Richard Lockridge

American mystery writer

Bram Stoker, creator of Count Dracula

Bram Stoker

Irish writer

Andrew Greeley

Andrew Greeley

American priest, sociologist, educator, commentator, and author

Janet Evanovich

American author

Mary Higgins Clark

American author

P.D. James

British novelist

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan

American author and teacher

Anthony Boucher

American author, editor, and critic

Blyton, Enid

Enid Blyton

British author

Colin Dexter

British author

Auguste, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, drawing by Paterne Berrichon.

Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam

French author

Carolyn Heilbrun

American author and literary critic

Ellis Peters

British author

Rendell, Ruth

Ruth Rendell

British author

Phyllis Ayame Whitney

American author