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  2. Samizdat - Wikipedia

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    Privately owned typewriters were considered the most practical means of reproducing samizdat during this time due to these copy machine restrictions. Usually, multiple copies of a single text would be simultaneously made on carbon paper or tissue paper, which were inexpensive and relatively easy to conceal. Copies would then be passed around ...

  3. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

  4. Imtiaz Dharker - Wikipedia

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    Her poem Tissue appears in the 2017 AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. [10] Her poems Living Space and In Wales, wanting to be Italian also appear in the Eduqas WJEC poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. [11] Dharker was a member of the judging panel for the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize, with Gillian Clarke and Dame Carol ...

  5. Stuff Matters - Wikipedia

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    Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World is a 2014 non-fiction book by the British materials scientist Mark Miodownik. The book explores many of the common materials people encounter during their daily lives and seeks to explain the science behind them in an accessible manner. Miodownik devotes a chapter ...

  6. Mark Statman - Wikipedia

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    Mark Statman (1958, New York, NY) is a writer, translator, and poet. He is emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City, where he taught from 1985 to 2016. [1] He has published 13 books, 8 of poetry, 3 of translation, and 2 on pedagogy and poetry.

  7. Charles Fenerty - Wikipedia

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    Pulped wood paper slowly began to be adopted by paper mills. German newspapers were the first to adopt the new paper, then other newspapers made the switch from rags to wood pulp. Soon there were mills throughout Canada, the U.S., and Europe, and later the rest of the world. A wood pulp paper mill was erected near Fenerty's home town.

  8. Mark Van Doren - Wikipedia

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    Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

  9. Tissue - Wikipedia

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    Tissue paper, a type of thin, gauzy translucent paper used for wrapping and cushioning items; Tissue (cloth), a thin, transparent, and lightweight fabric; Facial tissue, tissue paper used for cleaning the face; Japanese tissue, tissue paper from Japan made of vegetable fibers; Toilet paper, tissue paper used for cleaning the anus