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Christopher Columbus begins his voyage
August 3, 1492
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesOther Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
Meet the people whose encounter with Columbus led to the creation of a New World.
Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesWhat Was Columbus Thinking?
Students read excerpts from Columbus's letters and journals, as well as recent considerations of his achievements in order to reflect on the motivations behind Columbus's explorations.
Rupert Brooke, English WWI poet, is born
August 3, 1887
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesPoetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?
The historian and literary critic Paul Fussell has noted in The Great War and Modern Memory that, "Dawn has never recovered from what the Great War did to it." With dawn as a common symbol in poetry, it is no wonder that, like a new understanding of dawn itself, a comprehensive body of "World War I Poetry" emerged from the trenches as well.
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