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John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.^[1]

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A Medal for Benny

A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American drama film directed by Irving Pichel.

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A Russian Journal

A Russian Journal, published by John Steinbeck in April 1948, is an eyewitness account of his travels through the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War era.

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A&E Television Networks, LLC, stylized as A+E NETWORKS, is an American multinational broadcasting company that is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its Entertainment division.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Al Capp

Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". John Steinbeck and Albert Einstein are American Nobel laureates, American agnostics and American humanists.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. John Steinbeck and Alfred Hitchcock are American writers of Irish descent.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Booksellers Association

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1900 that promotes independent bookstores in the United States.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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American Scientist

American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

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American Writers: A Journey Through History

American Writers: A Journey Through History is a series produced and broadcast by C-SPAN in 2001 and 2002 that profiled selected American writers and their times.

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Anders Österling

Anders Österling (13 April 1884 – 13 December 1981) was a Swedish poet, critic and translator.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.

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Aorta

The aorta (aortas or aortae) is the main and largest artery in the human body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart, branching upwards immediately after, and extending down to the abdomen, where it splits at the aortic bifurcation into two smaller arteries (the common iliac arteries).

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AQA

AQA Education, trading as AQA (formerly the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance), is an awarding body in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. John Steinbeck and Arthur Miller are American agnostics, American anti-capitalists, American travel writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Battle Hymn of the Republic

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic", also known as the "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" or the "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" outside of the United States, is an American patriotic song that was written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War.

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Batumi

Batumi (ბათუმი), historically Batum or Batoum, is the second-largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey.

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Beach Jumpers

Beach Jumpers were U.S. Navy special warfare units organized during World War II by Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks Jr. They specialized in deception and psychological warfare.

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Betty Field

Betty Field (February 8, 1916 – September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Big Sur

Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean.

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Biography (TV program)

Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987.

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Board of supervisors

A board of supervisors is a governmental body that oversees the operation of county government in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as 16 counties in New York.

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Broderick Crawford

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor.

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Bruton

Bruton is a market town, electoral ward, and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Brue and the A359 between Frome and Yeovil.

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Burgess Meredith

Burgess Oliver Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theatre, film and television.

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Burning Bright

Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Cadbury Castle is a Bronze and Iron Age hillfort in the civil parish of South Cadbury in the English county of Somerset.

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California Coast Ranges

The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County.

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California Department of Transportation

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the U.S. state of California.

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California Hall of Fame

The California Hall of Fame honors individuals and families who embody California's innovative spirit and have made their mark on history.

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Camelot

Camelot is a legendary castle and court associated with King Arthur.

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Campervan

A campervan, also referred to as a camper, caravanette, motorhome or RV (recreational vehicle) in North America, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.

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Cannery Row

Cannery Row is a waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, known for formerly being home to a number of now-defunct sardine canneries.

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Cannery Row (film)

Cannery Row is a 1982 American comedy-drama film directed by David S. Ward in his directorial debut, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger.

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Cannery Row (novel)

Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.

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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, commonly known simply as Carmel, is a city in Monterey County, California, located on the Central Coast of California.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central California

Central California is generally thought of as the middle third of the U.S. state of California, north of Southern California (which includes Los Angeles and San Diego) and south of Northern California (which includes San Francisco and San Jose).

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Commonwealth Club of California

The Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization based in Northern California.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Communist revolution

A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism.

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Compadre

The compadre (literally "co-father" or "co-parent") relationship between the parents and godparents of a child is an important bond that originates when a child is baptised in Iberian, Latin American, Filipino Christian and Indian Christian Brahmin families.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use by the armed forces of many countries.

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Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca (Cuauhnāhuac, "near the woods", Otomi) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico.

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Cup of Gold

Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (1929) was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of 17th-century privateer Henry Morgan.

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DeMolay International

DeMolay International is an international fraternal organization for young men ages 12 to 21.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.

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East of Eden (film)

East of Eden is a 1955 American epic period drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Paul Osborn, adapted from the fourth and final part of John Steinbeck's epic 1952 novel of the same name.

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East of Eden (novel)

East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Ed Ricketts

Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (May 14, 1897 – May 11, 1948) was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher.

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Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (born Mary Elaine Anderson; August 14, 1914 – April 27, 2003) was an American actress and stage manager.

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Elia Kazan

Elias Kazantzoglou (Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου,; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan, was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Ella Winter

Ella Winter Stewart (17 March 1898 – 5 August 1980) was an Australian-British journalist and activist, and champion of migrant farm workers.

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Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Episode

An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or streaming consumption.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway are American Nobel laureates, American travel writers, Lost Generation writers and Nobel laureates in Literature.

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Everyman

The everyman is a stock character of fiction.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Finnish Democratic Republic

The Finnish Democratic Republic (Suomen kansanvaltainen tasavalta or Suomen kansantasavalta, Demokratiska Republiken Finland, Russian: Финляндская Демократическая Республика), also known as the Terijoki Government (Terijoen hallitus), was a short-lived communist puppet state of the Soviet Union in occupied Finnish territory from December 1939 to March 1940.

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Fire support base

A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.

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Fragmentation (weaponry)

Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, or autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc.

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Francis Biddle

Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II.

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Francis Whitaker

Francis Whitaker (November 29, 1906 – October 23, 1999) was a blacksmith in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he established The Forge in the Forest.

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Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician.

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GCSE

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988.

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Geghard

Geghard (Գեղարդ, meaning "spear") is a medieval monastery in the Kotayk province of Armenia, being partially carved out of the adjacent mountain, surrounded by cliffs.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.

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German occupation of Norway

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.

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Glastonbury Tor

Glastonbury Tor is a tor near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building.

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Great chain of being

The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenlight

In the context of the film and television industries, to greenlight is to give permission to proceed with a project.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory

Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory (GSML) is an independent not-for-profit marine research and education organization and public aquarium in Panacea, Florida, United States.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. John Steinbeck and Hedy Lamarr are writers from California.

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Heiligenhaus

Heiligenhaus is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the suburban Rhine-Ruhr area.

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Helsingin Sanomat

, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma.

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Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. John Steinbeck and Henry Fonda are American agnostics.

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Henry Morgan

Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan; – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.

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Henry Olsson

Karl Henry Olsson (18 April 1896 – 11 January 1985) was a Swedish literary scholar.

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Hillforts in Britain

Hillforts in Britain refers to the various hillforts within the island of Great Britain.

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Homestead Acts

The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.

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Hong Kong flu

The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic that occurred in 1968 and 1969 and which killed between one and four million people globally.

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Hooverville

Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Hovhannes Shiraz

Hovhannes Shiraz (Հովհաննես Շիրազ) (April 27, 1914 – March 24, 1984) was an Armenian poet.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Jack Rudloe

Jack Rudloe is a writer, naturalist, and environmental activist from Panacea, Florida, United States, who co-founded Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory.

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Jack Wagner (screenwriter)

Jack Wagner (May 20, 1891 – July 13, 1963) was an American Academy Award nominee screenwriter and cinematographer mostly during the silent era of motion pictures.

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James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years.

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Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard; October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

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Jay Parini

Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic.

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.

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John Alan Maxwell

John Alan Maxwell (March 7, 1904 – April 13, 1984) was an American artist known primarily for his book and magazine illustrations, as well as historical paintings.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. John Steinbeck and John F. Kennedy are Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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John Ford

John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. John Steinbeck and John Ford are people of the Office of Strategic Services and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor.

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John Reed Clubs

The John Reed Clubs (1929–1935), often referred to as John Reed Club (JRC), were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed.

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John Steinbeck House (Salinas, California)

The John Steinbeck House is a historic house restaurant and house museum in Salinas, California.

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John Steinbeck IV

John Ernst Steinbeck IV (June 12, 1946 – February 7, 1991) was an American journalist and author.

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Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English.

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Kern County, California

Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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King Arthur

King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.

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King Haakon VII Freedom Cross

King Haakon VII's Freedom Cross (Haakon VIIs Frihetskors) was established in Norway on 18 May 1945. John Steinbeck and King Haakon VII Freedom Cross are Recipients of the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross.

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Knights of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was an association of American novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip that appeared in multiple newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lifeboat (1944 film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck.

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Lincoln Steffens

Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century.

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Lists of banned books

This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.

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Lon Chaney Jr.

Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films, including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him a horror icon.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Los Gatos, California

Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Main Street

Main Street is a metonym used to denote a primary retail street of a village, town or small city in many parts of the world.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Mannequin

A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.

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Maria Shriver

Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, a member of the Kennedy family, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement.

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Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.

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Martiros Saryan

Martiros Saryan (Մարտիրոս Սարյան; Мартиро́с Сарья́н; – 5 May 1972) was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Matter of Britain

The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.

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Max Wagner

Max Wagner (November 28, 1901 – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, cab drivers and moving men, appearing more than 400 films in his career, most without receiving screen credit.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mettmann (district)

Mettmann is a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Migrant worker

A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium is a nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California.

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Monterey Bay Roller Derby

Monterey Bay Roller Derby (MBRD), formerly Monterey Bay Derby Dames, is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Monterey, California.

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Monterey County, California

Monterey County, officially the County of Monterey, is a county located on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California.

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Monterey Peninsula

The Monterey Peninsula anchors the northern portion on the Central Coast of California and comprises the cities of Monterey, Carmel, and Pacific Grove, and the resort and community of Pebble Beach.

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Monterey, California

Monterey (Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mount Hope, Jaffa

Mount Hope (הר התקווה) was a farm established northeast of Jaffa in 1853 by two groups of Millennial Protestant Christians from Prussia and the United States.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Steinbeck Center

The National Steinbeck Center is a museum and memorial dedicated to the author John Steinbeck, located at the California State University, Monterey Bay at Salinas City Center building at One Main Street in Salinas, California, the town where Steinbeck grew up.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.

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Northern Europe

The northern region of Europe has several definitions.

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Norwegian resistance movement

The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: Motstandsbevegelsen) to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945.

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O. Henry

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

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O. Henry's Full House

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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck.

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Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play of the same name, which itself was based on the novella of the same name by author John Steinbeck.

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Of Mice and Men (1992 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1992 American period drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name and is the second film adaptation of the Novella, following the 1939 film of the same name Directed and produced by Gary Sinise, the film features Sinise as George Milton, alongside John Malkovich as Lennie Small, with Casey Siemaszko as Curley, John Terry as Slim, Ray Walston as Candy, Joe Morton as Crooks, and Sherilyn Fenn as Curley's wife.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.

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Okie

An Okie is a person identified with the state of Oklahoma, or their descendants.

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Once There Was a War

Once There Was a War, published in 1958, is a collection of articles written by John Steinbeck while he was a special war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune from June to December 1943.

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Outrages at Jaffa

On January 11, 1858, the Jaffa Colonists – part of the American Agricultural Mission to assist local residents in agricultural endeavors in Ottoman Palestine – were brutally attacked, creating an international incident at the beginnings of U.S. presence in the Levant.

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Pacific Biological Laboratories

Pacific Biological Laboratories, abbreviated PBL, was a biological supply house that sold preserved animals and prepared specimen microscope slides, many of which were of maritime aquatic species, to schools, museums, and research institutions.

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Pacific coast

Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Grove, California

Pacific Grove is a coastal city in Monterey County, California, in the United States.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Panamá Viejo

Panamá Viejo (English: "Old Panama"), also known as Panamá la Vieja, is the remaining part of the original Panama City, the former capital of Panama, which was destroyed in 1671 by the Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Poodle

The Poodle, called the Pudel in German and the Caniche in French, is a breed of water dog.

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Posts, California

Posts (formerly Posts Summit) is an unincorporated community in the Big Sur region of Monterey County, California.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. John Steinbeck and Presidential Medal of Freedom are Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Prohibition in the United States

The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Randy Quaid

Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor known for his roles in both serious drama and light comedy.

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Redlynch, Somerset

Redlynch is a village and former manor in the civil parish of Bruton, in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England.

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Revolution of Dignity

The Revolution of Dignity (translit), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, the return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine, and the outbreak of the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War.

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Road trip

A road trip, sometimes spelled roadtrip, is a long-distance journey traveled by automobile.

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Robert Blake (actor)

Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023), billed early in his career as Mickey Gubitosi and Bobby Blake, was an American actor.

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Robert Capa

Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic.

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Robinson Jeffers

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet known for his work about the central California coast. John Steinbeck and Robinson Jeffers are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Rocinante

Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse in the two-part 1605/1615 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Round Table

The Round Table (y Ford Gron; an Moos Krenn; an Daol Grenn; Mensa Rotunda) is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate.

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Salinas Valley

The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California.

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Salinas, California

Salinas (Spanish for "Salt Flats") is a city in the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Monterey County.

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San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley (Valle de San Joaquín) is the southern half of California's Central Valley.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California.

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (translit; abbreviated as SBU or SSU) is the main internal security agency of the Ukrainian government.

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Sense of place

The term sense of place has been used in many different ways.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Short story collection

A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author.

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Socrates

Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor.

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Spreckels, California

Spreckels is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Salinas Valley of Monterey County, California, United States.

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St. Martin's Press

St.

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Stage management

Stage management is a broad field that is generally defined as the practice of organization and coordination of an event or theatrical production.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stenosis

Stenosis is the abnormal narrowing of a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure such as foramina and canals.

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Sweet Thursday

Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.

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Ted Neeley

Teddie Joe Neeley (born September 20, 1943) is an American singer, actor, musician, composer, and record producer.

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Teddy Kollek

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek (טדי קולק; 27 May 1911 – 2 January 2007) was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976) is John Steinbeck's retelling of the Arthurian legend, based on the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.

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The California Museum

The California Museum is the state history museum of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Harvest Gypsies

The Harvest Gypsies, by John Steinbeck, is a series of feature-story articles written on commission for The San Francisco News about the lives and times of migrant workers in California's Central Valley.

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez

The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an English-language book written by American author John Steinbeck and published in 1951.

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The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down is a novel by American writer John Steinbeck.

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The Pastures of Heaven

The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam in 1932.

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The Pearl (novella)

The Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck.

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The Red Pony

The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933.

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The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961.

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Thomas Steinbeck

Thomas Myles Steinbeck (August 2, 1944 – August 11, 2016) was a screenwriter, photographer, and journalist. John Steinbeck and Thomas Steinbeck are writers from California.

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Thompson submachine gun

The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter", or "trench broom") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918.

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Times-Standard

The Times-Standard is the only major local daily newspaper covering the far North Coast of California.

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To a God Unknown

To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933.

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Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California.

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Tortilla Flat (film)

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 American romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff and Sheldon Leonard, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Travels with Charley

Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck.

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U.S. Route 101

U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States.

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United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America

The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) was a labor union formed in 1937 and incorporated large numbers of Mexican, black, Asian, and Anglo food processing workers under its banner.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando.

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Volgograd

Volgograd (p), formerly Tsaritsyn (label) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (label) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Walking tour

A walking tour is a tour of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot, frequently in an urban setting.

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Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor.

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Walter Bedell Smith

General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, during World War II.

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War correspondent

A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.

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War hawk

In politics, the terms war hawk and hawk are used to describe a person who favours starting armed conflicts or escalating ongoing ones instead of attempting to solve problems through dialogue or other non-violent methods.

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Warder Clyde Allee

Warder Clyde "W.C." Allee (June 5, 1885 – March 18, 1955) was an American ecologist.

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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.

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Will Lang Jr.

William John Lang Jr. (October 7, 1914 – January 21, 1968) was an American journalist and a bureau head for Life magazine.

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. John Steinbeck and William Faulkner are American Nobel laureates, Lost Generation writers, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, national Book Award winners and Nobel laureates in Literature.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.

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Woman's Home Companion

Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly magazine, published from 1873 to 1957.

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World Constitutional Convention

The World Constitutional Convention (WCC), also known as the World Constituent Assembly (WCA) or the First World Constituent Assembly, took place in Interlaken, Switzerland and Wolfach, Germany, 1968.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yerevan

Yerevan (Երևան; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

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Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott (February 21, 1914 – October 3, 1965)Obituary Variety, October 6, 1965.

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1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.".

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

Also known as J. Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck III, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., John Steinback, John Steinbeck III, John Steinbeck fellowship, John Stienbeck, Religious views of John Steinbeck, Steinbeck, Steinbeck Country, Steinbeck, John, Steinbeckian, Stienbeck, John.

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