His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye"
18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel
In this Orwell novel, the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war
In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to "Finnegans Wake"
Laws of 1911 & 1949 left this upper house of Parliament with only delaying powers
8th C. King Offa built a 170-mile north-south dike that still partly marks the border of England & this country
He was 65 when he began his term as prime minister May 10, 1940
This monarch on whom the Magna Carta was forced has been called "the worst king ever to rule England"
World condemnation made the 1956 British-French occupation of this canal a disaster
A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million