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  2. Baguette - Wikipedia

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    Much of the history of the baguette is speculation; [7]: 35 however, some facts can be established. Long, stick-like breads in France became more popular during the 18th century, [7]: 5 French bakers started using "gruau," a highly refined Hungarian high-milled flour in the early 19th century, [7]: 13 Viennese steam oven baking was introduced to Paris in 1839 by August Zang, [7]: 12 and the ...

  3. Breadstick - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Tradition states, however, that it originated in the region of Piedmont in the 17th century, invented by a baker called Antonio Brunero, from Turin. It was a food that was intended to be easier to digest for the Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy , who had digestive problems in his childhood.

  4. Shakespeare's writing style - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with Romeo and Juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles. [6] By the time of Romeo and Juliet , Richard II , and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mid-1590s, Shakespeare had begun to write a more natural poetry.

  5. List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

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    Potato chips were not invented by a frustrated George Speck in response to a customer, sometimes given as Cornelius Vanderbilt, complaining that his French fries were too thick and not salty enough. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Recipes for potato chips were published as early as 1817. [ 66 ]

  6. A monkey writing Shakespeare? That's much ado about ... - AOL

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    Now, two academics at the University of Technology Sydney have written a paper in which they claim that even if all the world’s simians were working around the clock to replicate works such as ...

  7. Influence of William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare introduced or invented countless words in his plays, with estimates of the number in the several thousands. Warren King clarifies by saying that, "In all of his work – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare."

  8. Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

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    A second consideration is that there were no actual famines during the reign of Louis XVI and only two incidents of serious bread shortages, the first in April–May 1775, a few weeks before the king's coronation on 11 June 1775, and the second in 1788, the year before the French Revolution.

  9. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.