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Two letters, sold as a set from Yuan dynasty artist Zhao Mengfu to his friend Zhao Mengfu: 1254–1322 November 2019 [3] [4] $44.9 $35 Book of Mormon. Printer's manuscript. Copy of original manuscript produced by Oliver Cowdery. Originally owned by David Whitmer. Joseph Smith: 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: September 2017 ...
In addition to being a “special idea” that would set Great Books of the Western World apart, the Syntopicon serves four other purposes, outlined in its preface. The Syntopicon can serve as a reference book, as a book to be read, as an “instrument of liberal education,” and as “an instrument of discovery and research.” [9]
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.
The Coles bookstore first published Coles Notes in 1948. The first title published was on the French novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée. [1] [2] In 1958, Jack Cole and Carl Cole, founders of Coles, sold the U.S. rights to Coles Notes to Cliff Hillegass who then published the books under CliffsNotes. By 1960, Coles notes sales had peaked.
"the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [46] 39,358 £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award: Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story). [47] 38,081 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize: Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem. [48]
In this story the narrator opens with a hunting story concerning his neighbor. They find the trees in the area dying with many fallen onto the ground because of a terrible frost (this is an actual event from Russia in 1840). After this he and his friend come upon a peasant who they are told has been smashed by a tree and they watch him die.
The 103-year-old cracker is one of the last survivors from the Titanic, which sunk in 1912 and is estimated to be worth more than $12,000.
The 1954 film The Million Pound Note was based on this short story, and starred Gregory Peck as Henry Adams; The 1968 BBC TV adaptation, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, starred Stuart Damon; The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements from both the short story and Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper