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Rainbow flag. Sign of diversity, inclusiveness, hope, yearning. Gay pride flag popularized by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. Inspired by Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow. gay rights, homosexual, gays, LGBT community
13 LGBTQ Writers You Should Read
Doesn’t matter whom you love.
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
How many of these great novels have you read?
Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
Periods of American Literature
Learn about the history of American literature.
Girl Reading On Turquoise Couch
9 American Countercultural Books
Documents from a revolutionary era: the 1960s and ’70s.
Morlocks in "The Time Machine" (1960), directed by George Pal.
10 Devastating Dystopias
Is a perfect society really possible?
Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.
8 Influential Abolitionist Texts
Essays and letters that helped break fetters.
Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Ancient Song Dynasty. The background of Chinese cultural elements.
The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems
Don’t forget—write it down!
Pirate Ship leaving the harbor at the milky way sunset for a long campaign against the loyal marines on the oceans
In the Sea-Language: Sailing Terms in Britannica's First Edition
Do you know your “bonnet” from your “shivers”?
Happy, smiling, flying pig
7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From
How did the proof get in the pudding? Britannica spills the...
Ancient book lit by candle
9 Obscure Literary Terms
Know your eye rhymes.
Aladdin and the Efrite, jinn, genie.
5 Creepy Things from The Thousand and One Nights
Shahrazad or Stephen King?
Spelling bee. Nathan J. Marcisz of Marion, Indiana, tries to spell a word during the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition June 3, 2010 in Washington, DC. Spellers competition to become best spelling bee of the year.
7 Quintessential National-Spelling-Bee-Winning Words
Can you spell these? (T-h-e-s-e!)
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
Tour with the Bard from Denmark to Egypt.
The word "communication" has an accent or stress on the fourth syllable, the letters "ca."
10 Frequently Confused Literary Terms
Do you confuse "denotation" with "connotation"? Oh, the irony!...
Article title: raven, common. Scientific name: Corvus corax; animal; bird
8 Creepy Critters in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe
Behold the menagerie of the master of horror.
The Fairy Queen's Messenger, illustration by Richard Doyle, c. 1870s.
6 Fictional Languages You Can Really Learn
Pedich Edhellen? Do you speak Elvish?
Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Predictions for the end of the world that (obviously) didn’t...

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Joan of Arc at the Coronation of King Charles VII at Reims Cathedral, July 1429 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Oil on canvas, 240 x 178 cm, 1854. In the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
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Seven women who weren’t afraid to fight.
earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
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Charles II (1630-85), king of Great Britain and Ireland (1660-85), entering London on May 29, 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy; undated hand-colored print .
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
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