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Epic! Epic! Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for children ages 12 and under. [ 1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [ 2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [ 3] and launched in 2014. [ 4]
The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh ( / ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /) [ 2 ] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [ 3 ] ), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur ( c.2100 BC ). [ 1 ] These independent stories were later ...
Epic (noun) refers to a long poem, book, movie, etc. that tells the story of a hero 's adventures. [ 4] The earliest epics were long poems performed out loud that told these grandiose stories about heroes. Today, in modern society, the word epic has been expanded and associated with all kinds of long literatures that still underlyingly focus on ...
Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel. Premiering on September 8, 1993, to coincide with ...
BookTube is a subcommunity on YouTube that focuses on books and literature. The BookTube community has, to date, reached hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide. While the majority of BookTubers focus on Young Adult literature, many address other genres. BookTube videos also generally follow a set of formats, often drawing upon the wider ...
This is a list of Reading Rainbow episodes, hosted by longtime executive producer LeVar Burton. The show premiered on PBS on July 11, 1983. [1] [2] The final episode aired on November 10, 2006, reruns ceased on August 28, 2009. On June 20, 2012, an app for the show was released.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is a graphic novel about the foundational quest in mathematics, written by Apostolos Doxiadis, author of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, and theoretical computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Character design and artwork are by Alecos Papadatos and color is by Annie Di Donna. The book was ...