What is the source of the phrase “What hath God wrought”?
The phrase “What hath God wrought” comes from the Bible, Numbers 23:23.
It is now best known as the first message sent by telegraph, May 28, 1844.
The phrase “What hath God wrought” comes from the Bible, Numbers 23:23.
It is now best known as the first message sent by telegraph, May 28, 1844.
The Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction was first awarded in 1962 to Theodore H. White for The Making of the President 1960.
Thomas Hardy published his last novel thirty-three years before his death. Hardy’s last novel was Jude the Obscure (1895), the story of Jude Fawley’s adulterous love for his cousin Sue Bridehead. The novel so shocked readers that Hardy gave up writing fiction and turned to poetry. Hardy died in 1928.
The title character of the 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is named Clarissa.
The musical The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt has been running for over thirty years, since May 1960.
From the Latin for “patchwork,” a cento is a poem or other literary work composed of lines or passages from other, more famous works, with the meaning altered. Centos were a favorite form in late antiquity. An example is the Cento Vergilianus by Proba Falconia (fourth century), which used bits of Vergil to recount sacred…
The archetypal villain Simon Legree first appeared in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) as the brutal degenerate who flogs Tom to death.