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March – The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. [1]March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean, [2] the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in North America.
"The First German Newspaper Published in America". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 24 (3). University of Pennsylvania Press: 306– 307. 1900. JSTOR 20085923. Stern, Madeleine B. (July 1950). "Books in the Wilderness: Some 19th Century Upstate Publishers". New York History. 3 (3). Cornell University Press: 260– 282. JSTOR ...
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Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister in New England and a prolific author of books and pamphlets and is considered one of the most important intellectual figures in colonial America. Mather made free use of the presses in the New England colonies, sometimes in an effort to counter the attacks made on Puritans by George Keith and others. Between ...
The Rambler was written primarily for the newfound, rising middle-class of the 18th century, who sought social fluency within aristocratic social circles. It was especially targeted to the middle-class audience that were increasingly marrying into aristocratic families in order to create socio-economic alliances, but did not possess the social and intellectual tools to integrate into those ...
The Soviet writer Andrei Anikin had likewise published a book called Gulliver's Fifth Travel, featuring Gulliver visiting Orwell-inspired societies. Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon ( ガリバーの宇宙旅行 , Garibā no Uchū Ryokō , Gulliver's Space Travels) is a 1965 Japanese animated film, portraying an elder Gulliver taking part in ...
Don McLean, "American Pie" Don McLean penned this hit about "The Day the Music Died" (when a plane carrying Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper crashed), but most people just love it ...
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