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  2. The Story of Mankind - Wikipedia

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    280 pp (paperback) The Story of Mankind is a book written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon. It was published in 1921. In 1922, it was awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. This was the first year the Newbery Medal was awarded.

  3. The Story of Mankind (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American dark fantasy film, loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. [1] The film was directed and coproduced by Irwin Allen and released by Warner Bros. [2] In the film, the fate of humanity is decided in a court of law. The Devil is the prosecutor, and the ...

  4. Hendrik Willem van Loon - Wikipedia

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    Van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon [2] and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. [3] He immigrated to the United States in 1902 to study at Harvard University and then Cornell University, where he received his AB in 1905. [4] In 1906 [5] he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch (1880–1955), daughter of a Harvard ...

  5. Newbery Medal - Wikipedia

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    Hendrik van Loon's non-fiction history book The Story of Mankind won with 163 votes out of 212. [11]: 11 In 1924 the process was changed, and instead of using popular vote it was decided that a special award committee would be formed to select the winner. The award committee was made up of the Children's Librarian Section executive board, their ...

  6. A Little History of the World - Wikipedia

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    A Little History of the World. A Little History of the World (originally in German, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser) is a history book by Ernst Gombrich. It was written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria, when Gombrich was 26 years old. He was rewriting it for English readers when he died in 2001, at the age of 92, in London.

  7. Van Loon's Lives - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Simon & Schuster) Van Loon's Lives is a book by the Dutch-American writer Hendrik Willem van Loon published in 1942. Its full title, deliberately written in a manner already archaic at the time of writing, is Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to ...

  8. If It Had Happened Otherwise - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 028397821X. Dewey Decimal. 904. LC Class. D210 .S7. If It Had Happened Otherwise is a 1931 collection of essays edited by J. C. Squire and published by Longmans, Green. Each essay in the collection could be considered alternate history or counterfactual history, a few written by leading historians of the period and one by Winston Churchill.

  9. List of non-fiction works made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Mankind (1921), Hendrik Willem van Loon: The Story of Mankind (1957) Storyville, New Orleans (1974), Al Rose Pretty Baby (1978) Ten Days that Shook the World (1919), John Reed: October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) Reds (1981) Red Bells (1982) Ten Rillington Place (1961), Ludovic Kennedy: 10 Rillington Place (1971)