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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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| 376 |
Veritas was the Roman goddess of truth. |
Literature > Mythology |
07/11/08 |
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| 377 |
Roald Dahl died November 23, 1990, aged 74. |
Literature > Authors |
07/11/08 |
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| 378 |
Sirius Black is Harry Potter's godfather. |
Literature > Harry Potter |
07/10/08 |
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| 379 |
Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. |
Literature > Authors |
07/10/08 |
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| 380 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the stories of Sherlock Holmes. |
Literature > Authors |
07/09/08 |
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| 381 |
Gandalf (one of the five Wizards in the "Lord of the Rings" series) owned a sword named Glamdring, or Foe-hammer. |
Literature > Fantasy |
07/09/08 |
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| 382 |
Jenny Nimmo wrote the Children of the Red King series. |
Literature > Authors |
07/09/08 |
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| 383 |
Hermann Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. |
Literature > Authors |
07/09/08 |
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| 384 |
Sharon Creech is the author of "Heartbeat". |
Literature > Authors |
07/07/08 |
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| 385 |
Sharon Creech is the author of "Ruby Holler". |
Literature > Authors |
07/07/08 |
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| 386 |
Alecto Carrow is a Death Eater. |
Literature > Harry Potter |
07/07/08 |
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| 387 |
Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds" tells the story of the evolving and destructive relationship between Meggie Cleary and Father Ralph de Bricassart. |
Literature |
07/07/08 |
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| 388 |
William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. |
Literature > Poetry |
07/07/08 |
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| 389 |
"The Land of Elyon" is a series by Patrick Carman. |
Literature > Authors |
07/06/08 |
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| 390 |
Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the Boxcar Children series. |
Literature > Authors |
07/06/08 |
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