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Most great writers agonise over punctuation. Oscar Wilde wrote that revising one of his poems took a day: the morning to take a comma out, the afternoon to reinstate it. When Mark Twain heard that ...

The teachers came to Bradford Grammar School, where they were welcomed by Quaker headmaster Richard Brocklebank Graham.

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

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