Theodor Fontane is today best remembered as a novelist (and also as a poet). However, all his novels were written in the last two decades of his life. A list of publications by Fontane published by his native town Neuruppin contains a section on books about wars ("Kriegsbücher"):
Der Schleswig-H...
Machiavelli's treatise The Prince, written in the early 16th century and first published in 1532, was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559. According to Robert Bireley, quoted on Wikipedia,
there were in circulation approximately fifteen editions of the Prince and nineteen of the Disc...
Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160 – after c. 1220) was the author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin, which is considered to be a Georgian national epic poem." The Wikipedia article about The Knight in the Panther's Skin tells us that
Until the early 20th century, a copy of this poem was part of the do...
Albert Camus "is routinely categorized as an existentialist, a term he rejected on several occasions" (Wikipedia). His critique of existentialistm focused mostly on Sartre. Alain Vircondelet's biography Albert Camus, fils d'Alger (2010) mentions (on page 307) that
Il lui apparaît de plus en plus...
"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" is a kid's song that goes like this:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too
Whenever we go out
The people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Da-da-da-da la-la-la-la
This verse then repeats several times.
Why is his name "m...
The following quote is commonly attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte:
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Even to the extent that a book about Napoleon was written with this title. But even a more detailed page doesn't say exactly where he said this, and it's also listed as a quote misattributed ...
I’m trying to catalog all my books and magazines so I can at a glace know what I have, and don’t have. I’m working on the magazines at the moment and noticed that they don’t have ISBN numbers. Do magazines have unique identifying numbers?
