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The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed using movable type, was completed around 1455 in Mainz, Germany, by Johannes Gutenberg.

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Roky Erickson is an American guitarist and composer, known as a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and author of You're Gonna Miss Me.

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The village of Alofi is the capital of Niue, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. Alofi is located in the center of Alofi Bay, on the west coast of Niue Island, close to the only crossing point in the barrier reef that surrounds the island.

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Catcher in the Rye is a novel by the American J. D. Salinger published on July 16, 1951. Written in the first person, it relates three days in the life of Holden Caulfield. The teenager is expelled from Pencey Prep High School on the eve of Christmas holidays and wanders alone in New York City.

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The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck published in 1939. The plot unfolds during the Great Depression and the reader follows the adventures of a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joad, who are forced to leave Oklahoma because of the drought.

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The film Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, was released in 1962 and has become a classic of epic cinema, recounting the life of T. E. Lawrence.

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In 1956, Duke Ellington relaunched his career with the album Ellington at Newport, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, a landmark concert in his career.

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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 include two official racial texts, but a third, on the flag, was promulgated on the same day as a symbolic gesture.

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The best known paintings of the Tomb of Nebamon include Nebamon's bird hunting in the marshes, dancers at a banquet and a pond in a garden.

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Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847, to escape the gender prejudices of authors of the time.

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