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Comics Timeline
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- Booker Prize Slideshow
- Follow this slideshow to read about books that have won the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award [ more ]
- Just Where Was Columbus?
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- Yom Kippur
- Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, is one of Judaism's most serious holidays [ more ]
- Longest Broadway Runs
- The Phantom of the Opera has been performed more than 8,570 times on Broadway since 1988 [ more ]
- Animal Hall of Fame Slideshows
- Follow this slideshow to see and learn about the biggest, smallest, meanest, and fastest animals on Earth [ more ]
- The Dawning of the Space Age
- On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union ushered in the modern space age when it put Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit [ more ]
- Banned Books Week
- Banned Books Week calls attention to the most challenged and banned books in the U.S. [ more ]
- 10 Most Censored Countries
- North Korea has less press freedom than any other country in the world [ more ]
- Spanish Loan Words
- Some scholars say Spanish has contributed 10,000 words to English [ more ]
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