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Throughout recorded history, from the first assembling of glyphs and letters to modern-day philosophical treatises, humans have used writing to express their thoughts on life, themselves, the world around them, and what they truly believe. With this in mind, books can be simple, easy, and digestible…
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10 Books Banned In The 21st Century
To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter are infamous examples of banned books. Published in 1960 and 1850,…
Top 10 Amazing Discoveries About Ancient Authors And Books
In the past, anything capable of holding a doodle was used in the way of a page. Papyrus, rock, and wood all…
All through history, there have been startling accounts of people foreseeing the future, accounts that unnervingly hit or miss the mark. From Nostradamus predicting the Great Fire of London in 1666 (totally happened, according to some) to the Mayans prophesizing the Earth’s end in 2012 (er, not so…
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10 Major Historical Figures And Their Failed Attempts At Writing
Everybody thinks they have a great novel in them. Most never get around to writing it, but some chance the…
10 Lost Libraries And The Mysteries Of Their Contents
The history of lost libraries inevitably mentions the disappearance of the Great Library of Alexandria, which also…
“Many fine books have been written in prison,” said Raoul Duke, in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And it’s true. Ghandi, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, the Marquis De Sade, and O. Henry all turned their sentences into, well, sentences.
But those guys were writers to begin with.…
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10 Creepy Reads For Halloween Based On ‘True Stories’
It’s Halloween. You might be a bit old to don a mask and bum candy off your neighbors, but that’s no reason not to…
10 Books That Have Been Lost To History
Books are one of humanity’s greatest inventions. A few scribbles on a page and your thoughts, knowledge, and…
Famous authors are a constant source of fascination and intrigue. They open their minds to the public by creating characters and worlds that we take into our hearts, which makes us feel as though we know them. Meanwhile, the authors themselves remain distant and closed figures.
When we try to…
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