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Wikimedia Commons What’s So ‘American’ About John Milton’s Lucifer?
The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem Paradise Lost was a self-made, individualistic iconoclast.
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Wikipedia Commons The Science Fiction That Came Before Science
Literature imagined technologically marvelous cities, space travel, and aliens before the scientific revolution even hit its stride.
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Amy Sussman / AP Why Bigfoot Sightings Are So Common Across Cultures
Visions of hairy “man-apes” speak to something deep in the human psyche.
