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The Death of Shakespeare

What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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

Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

All the World’s a Stage: 6 Places in Shakespeare, Then and Now

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John F. Kennedy as a boy with his family

What Did We Call America’s Elite Before the “1 Percent”?

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Flags That Look Alike

Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg

Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

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Born	July 11, 1754 • England
Died	February 24, 1825 (aged 70) • near Swansea • Wales

Samuel Johnson

English author

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

Alexander Pope

English author

Lord Byron

British poet

William Makepeace Thackeray

British author

John Wilkes

British journalist and politician

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Edmond Halley

British scientist

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

English author

Karl Pearson

British mathematician

Arthur Young

English writer

A.E. Housman

English scholar and poet

Thomas Sheraton

English furniture designer

James Joseph Sylvester

English mathematician

Sir Stephen Spender

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Margaret Drabble

British author

Richard Bentley

British scholar

Ted Hughes

British poet

Stanley Morison

English typographer

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