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Tolkien wrote hundreds of words in Elvish and it gave groups like Eldandili Fantasy, based in Sweden, the lyrical flexibility to write pieces
In the epic, Homer writes that the people of Kasos sent ships to fight in the wars with Ilium, which helped the researchers find the wrecks
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Zoe Andrew somehow knew that the museum's copy of The Secret Garden was the same one that she owned as a child—and she turned out to be right.
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