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…Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, a small mining town near Johannesburg in South Africa, which turned out to be the setting for Gordimer's first novel, The Lying Days (1953). Her father was a Jewish jeweler originally from Latvia…

…On August,13 1860, Pheobe Ann Moses was born to Jacob and Susan Moses in their one room cabin in Patterson, Ohio. When Annie was around 6, her father contracted pnemonia while traveling the 18 miles home from town in a blizzard, and died in the spring…

…City, the capital, which inhabited approximately 750,000. Presently, Guatemala City is still the largest city in Guatemala. It is the center of the country and home to major industry, commerce, finance, publishing, education, and the government. Since…

…the Minoan architects. Their towns were mostly residential with little or no temples and public places. Unlike earlier people, their houses were private and had many rooms. However, to separate rooms, they would use only pillars. Thus, the house was very…

…creative vision. But the small town of Salinas, populated by energetic and enterprising Westerners, circumscribed the restless and rebellious young man, who had decided at age 14 that he wished to be a writer. To please his parents, he enrolled at Stanford…

…sent them down the Tiber River so he would be able to deny their death, but they did not die. They were found by a she-wolf and a bird that fed and nurtured them to health. They were later found by a shepard, Faustulas, who brought them home to his wife Acca…

…The people of the town of a Salem led a very repressed, controlled and sheltered life. Of all the people it was the children who suffered the most. These children were pent up, not allowed to play, or do anything normal children do. They were forced…

…, in his ethnic cleansing. The army would take jewish people out of their homes, bussiness, and hidding places, and sent them to concentration camps that would kill them, tourcher them and camps that made them work. The Dachau Concentration…

…of their community as quaint, cozy, and comfortable. A big city feel without many of the big city hassles. Near the central part of town, along the banks of the Fox River, sits a Green Bay landmark: Lambeau Field. The home of the 3-time Super Bowl champion Green…

…. They also occur around the turn of the century. Both of the families are middle to low-class. There are little, if any differences in settings, except for that they most likely occur in different towns. In "the Necklace " and "the gift of the magi…