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Geoffrey Chaucer was a 14th century English nobleman who, among many more stately occupations, was a celebrated poet and playwright. Although he wrote many poems and plays, he has been ...

The Canterbury Tales is a series of short stories by Geoffrey Chaucer. Written in the 14th Century and narrated by a group of traveling pilgrims on their way to Canterbury ...

Mary Ellen Baker is the former librarian of the Wasilla City Library in Wasilla, Alaska. Baker was librarian in 1996 when new mayor Sarah Palin allegedly tried to pressure her ...

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English is an Indo-European language (a group of languages that include most European, Indian and Iranian languages and dialects), and is part of the smaller subcategory of Germanic (a language ...

John Champlin Gardner, Jr., American novelist, was born in Batavia, New York on July 21, 1933. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/john.gardner.asp#biography He wrote a total of ...

Paul Bettany is a British actor who was born and raised in London, England. Deciding to start seriously acting at a young age, Bettany made his stage debut with West ...

Couplets are two-line poems that often contain the same meter and rhyme. They tend to appear within other forms of poetry, like the sonnet and the epic poem (favorite mediums ...