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A collection of L.A.G. Strong’s books were published in New York by Alfred K. Knopf publishing house, including an American edition of The Minstrel Boy in 1937. Although the text remains the same, the aesthetics of the book are different between…

In the 48th Sherlock Holmes story, titled "The Last Bow," Holmes finds himself working alongside a man named Von Bork to supply the German government with information stolen from the English military. Holmes creates an Irish American informant named…

Kincheloe, Joe l. "Says Who? Who Decides What Is Art?" Counterpoints, vol. 212, 2003, pp. 49-53. Peter Lang AG, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42978107.
Joe Kincheloe asks the initially impossible sounding question: "Who
has the right to designate…

Family pictures after graduation

Alan Jackson wrote this song in response to the events of the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. He woke up one morning with this melody and then composed the song.

Henderson, Archibald. “George Bernard Shaw.” The North American Review, vol. 185, no. 616, 1907, pp. 293–305. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25105897.
This article, written contemporarily to Shaw, extols Shaw’s abilities and compares…

One of the common forms of fortune telling from Victorian England was cartomancy, involving the assignment of emotions or conditions to card values. Cards would be drawn for customers or picked randomly by them. There were various techniques of card…

"Polar Expedition" is made from drawings taken by Beechey after a 40 mile expedition through the polar ice, finally arriving at clear water. The contrast of the blue water and the near white ice formations gave the drawings a cutting edge against the…

The story of If Winter Comes focuses on Mark Sabre and his relationship with his wife. The story of the book, though is not what most immediately catches the eye, but rather what someone had written in the book. On one of the first few pages of the…