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Text. The Battle of the Books at Wikisource. " The Battle of the Books " is a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for ...
The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising[ 1] was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549. In that year, the first Book of Common Prayer, presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced. The change was widely unpopular, particularly in areas where firm Catholic religious loyalty (even after the Act of Supremacy in ...
656 killed or captured. 279 wounded. St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, [ 3] was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the Northwest ...
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys. While lasting less than a minute on October 26, 1881, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century. Taking place in the Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the battle has ...
Vietnamese. Tây du kí. Journey to the West ( Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóujì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is regarded as one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels, and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia. [ 2]
The Quiet Zone, by journalist Stephen Kurczy, is the story of a sleepy small town that hosts the Green Bank radio telescope. But the presence of this installation comes at a price: due to the ...
The Oregon Battle of the Books Committee is a volunteer-based group established in 2006 supported by the Oregon Association of School Libraries (or OASL). The idea was sparked by the Chicago Public Library who in the mid-1900s had a radio show with a similar concept. In the 1970s, author Sybilla Cook introduced the idea in Oregon, but it was ...
John, Paul, George & Ben is a Junior Library Guild book. [7] It was named one of the best non-fiction children's books of 2006 by The Horn Book Magazine, [8] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Chicago Public Library, Child, Miami Herald, Parenting, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, School Library Journal, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch [citation needed] The New York Times ...