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6 days ago · " Rip Van Winkle " ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑɱ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains.
4 days ago · Former President Donald Trump made at least 10 false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris in his first campaign rally since she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
2 days ago · Lyman Frank Baum ( / bɔːm /; [1] May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.
5 days ago · Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose brilliance in matching words and music in dramatic situations broke new ground for Broadway musical theater. His credits included West Side Story, Gypsy, Into the Woods, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Steet.
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4 days ago · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Learn more about her life and works in this article.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831), a text that is part Gothic nove...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s best-known book is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831). She wrote several other novels, incl...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a noted social philosopher, political journalist, and religious Dissenter, and her mother...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814. The couple we...
2 days ago · Italian author Giambattista Basile wrote the first literary version of the story. The first European version written in prose was published in Naples, Italy, by Giambattista Basile, in his Pentamerone (1634).
4 days ago · Justin Bieber looked rather surprised as he watched fellow singer The Kid Laroi climb a tree during a concert in Los Angeles on July 18.This footage was recorded by audience member Carissa Nelson, who told Storyful that the Australian singer “appeared in a tree” right in front of her for the last song of evening, at which point she also spotted Bieber in the crowd.“It all happened so ...
