by Elaine Gallagher
Hello, Readers.
You’ve already seen «Cultural Literacy» with an introduction and an explanation, and historical dates. You also have seen phrases and idioms that most culturally- literate people know.
Now, you’ll see a list of names or figures, or places that most culturally-literate people know. If you don’t know them all, start growing. Your Internet link is waiting for you! Have fun!
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Achilles heel
Adam and Eve
Adonis
Adriatic Sea
The Aeneid
Aeschylus
Aesop’s Fables
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
The Alamo
Louisa May Alcott
Alexander the Great
Horatio Alger
Alice in Wonderland
Allies (World War II)
Allah
Alps
Amazon River
American Stock Exchange
Anderson, Hans Christian
Apaches
Appleseed, Johnny
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Astaire, Fred and Ginger Rogers
Athens
Atlas (Titan)
Audubon, John
Augustine, Saint
Augustus, Caesar
Auschwitz
Axis (World War II)
Aztec Empire
Babel, Tower of
Babylon
Bacchus
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Baghdad
Bahamas
Balzac
The Barber of Seville
Bard of Avon
P.T. Barnum
baroque
The Barrymores
Clara Barton
bass fiddle
bassoon
Bastille
bar mitzvah
Beatitudes
The Beatles
beaucoup
Beauty and the Beast
Ludwig van Beethoven
behaviorism
Alexander Graham Bell
Berkeley, California
Irving Berlin
Berlin Wall
bibliography
bicameral legislature
big bad wolf
big bang theory
Big Ben
big business
big dipper
biofeedback
blackball
Black Death
black hole of Calcutta
black holes
blacklist
black magic
black sheep
William Blake
blank verse
Blarney Stone
blood type
Boer
Bolshevik
Bombay
economic boom
sonic boom
Daniel Boone
John Wilkes Booth
Lucretia Borgia
Borneo
botany
Botticelli
bottom line
botulism
Bourbon Kings
bourgeoisie
boycott
Johannes Brahmes
brain trust
brainwashing
Brasilia
Brave New World
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Bronze Age
Brown vs the Board of Education
John Brown
Brueghal
Brutus
Buddha
Paul Bunyon
buoyancy
bureaucracy
byte
Byzantine
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Next time, we’ll continue with more items, beginning with «C».
Have fun in Google!
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