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Timeline: Olympics, 1950s -1980s
From ancient Greece to the present day Previous | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | Next Winter 1952 Oslo Winter Games The Olympic torch is lit in the fireplace of skiing pioneer Sondre…William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene II
Scene IIVenice. A streetEnter LauncelotLauncelotCertainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot…John Keats: Book II
by John Keats Book IBook IIIBook II Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings Hyperion slid into the rustled air, And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad place Where Cybele and…National Film Registry
Each year since 1989, the Library of Congress adds 25 films to the National Film Registry to ensure that each film will be preserved in its original form. The films, which must be at least…Peter Pan: The Mermaids' Lagoon
The Home Under the Ground The Never Bird The Mermaids' Lagoon If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the…The Iliad of Homer: How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy
Book 19 Book 21 How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy. So by the beaked ships around thee, son of Peleus, hungry for war, the Achaians armed; and over against them the men of Troy…Calypso--Ulysses Reaches Scheria on a Raft - The Odyssey
The Visit to King Menelaus, W... The Meeting Between Nausicaa ... Calypso--Ulysses Reaches Scheria on a Raft. And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus--harbinger of…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book VIII
Book VIII No more of talk where God or Angel Guest With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast, permitting him the while Venial discourse…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book IX
Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n;…In the Tennis-Court
In the Tennis-CourtAthletic sports were in high favour at Plumfield; and the river where the old punt used to wabble about with a cargo of small boys, or echo to the shrill screams of little…Trending
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