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CE5
Holy Roman Empire (c.1100)
CE5
Holy Roman Empire, designation for the political entity that originated at the coronation as emperor (962) of the German king Otto I and…
(Encyclopedia) IncaIncaĭngˈkə [key], pre-Columbian empire, W South America. The name Inca may specifically refer to the emperor, but is generally used to mean the empire or the people.
When…
(Encyclopedia) geography, the science of place, i.e., the study of the surface of the earth, the location and distribution of its physical and cultural features, the areal patterns or places that…
Act VScene IBefore Leonato's houseEnter Leonato and AntonioAntonioIf you go on thus, you will kill yourself:
And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
Against yourself.LeonatoI pray thee,…
The titles range from Don Quixote to Middlesex
The editors of American Book Review selected what they consider the most memorable first lines of novels. The titles on the list span centuries and…
(Encyclopedia) romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent.
Romanticism in music was characterized by an emphasis on emotion and great…
(Encyclopedia) English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its…
(Encyclopedia) novel, in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily…
