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Starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Takes place in Moracco during WW2. Casablanca
Things Fall Apart + Anthills of the Savannah. Has a book discussing Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community who accidentally kills clansman. Chinua Achebe
Author of Death in Venice, the Magic Mountain. German Thomas Mann
Author of "The Plague Dogs", a book where 2 dogs escape an animal testing facility. Author of "Watership Down" Adams
American Playwright of The Hairy Ape and The Iceman Cometh O'neill
Melville, whale kills a boat of people and the only survive is a dude named Ishmael. Moby Dick
William of Orange was shot at this battle. The legendary "reverse slope defense" was used. Gebbard von Brucher + Duke of Wellington victorius. Waterloo
Self-made-millionare decides to chase after a high-class baddie. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
1990s are known as this country's "Lost Decade", 31 prime ministers since WW2. "Post-war economic Miracle". Led by Shinzo Abe Japan
Hester Prynne, puritan, is pregnant out of wedlock. Has to wear the letter A, standing for adultery. Hawthorne The Scarlett Letter
Frank Ramsey translated this to English. "What we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence", and "The world is everything that is the case" Are quotes from this book by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Sad scholar makes a pact with the devil Mephistopheles in exchange for unlimited knowledge + power. Doesn't go well. Goethe. Faust
This event was what occured when Zbigniew Braziah gave the 'MEOW' speech, and this was launched by King Faisal during the Yom Kippur War Oil Crisis
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