Who created the Bobbsey Twins?
New Jersey novelist Edward Stratemeyer created the Bobbsey Twins, under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope.
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Who was the first winner of the Bollingen Prize?
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Who was Simon Legree and where did he come from?
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What Kurt Vonnegut character invented ice-nine?
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When and where was Milton’s masque Comus first performed?
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