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in 1687
Philippe Couplet
published
Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
(pictured)
, the first known
Western
translation of a
Chinese
literary
work?
Facts on topics related to Literary
Literary genre
Grunge Lit
is an
Australian
literary genre
which features gritty depictions of
urban
and
suburban
life revolving around a
nihilistic
pursuit of
sex
,
drugs
and
alcohol
?
invasion literature
, such as
The War of the Worlds
, was a
literary genre
influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to
World War I
?
the
literary genre
known as
Bangsian fantasy
sets its action wholly or partially in
Hell
?
writers in the
literary genre
known as
fantastique
include
Stephen King
and
Honoré de Balzac
?
English literature
English writer
Anne Brontë
is buried in
Scarborough
, and not in
Haworth
with all her family?
the first fire-breathing
dragon
in
English literature
occurs in the
Old English
epic poem
Beowulf
?
Literature
"many-sided" priest
Father Patrick McLaughlin
(pictured)
promoted links between the
Church
and the world of
literature
by staging plays, and by commissioning lectures from
T. S. Eliot
and
Dorothy L. Sayers
?
Danish
botanist
Christen C. Raunkiær
made
quantitative
studies of
plants
in
literature
?
Sinop Fortress Prison
in
Turkey
, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular
literature
, music and film?
before
Nielsen BookScan
began tracking
point of sale
data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of
literary works
that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the
public domain
?
the
names of broad gauge railway locomotives
were drawn from areas such as
Greek
,
Roman
and other
mythologies
, famous people,
literature
,
flora
,
fauna
,
towns
,
geographical
features, speed and power?
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