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Writing is a hard, solitary occupation – unlike some of the more collaborative arts, the forge that spawns great literature is one of lonely toil over a typewriter, wrestling with your inner demons and putting them down on paper. So is it any wonder that a disproportionate number of our greatest authors have seen fit to end their own lives? In this article, I’ll spotlight five wordsmiths who couldn’t take it anymore and see if their work offers any clues to their tragic deaths.

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Behind every great man is a great woman: a phrase feminists cherish and misogynists abhor. Though the statement might be true in some cases it is more often a matter of equal ground. Who says the woman has to be behind the man, or reversely, the man in front of the woman? History shows that both man and woman work best when side by side.

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World War I was a terrible conflict that lasted from 1914-1918 (the ceasefire was declared in 1918, but the peace treaty wasn't signed in 1919). Here a few little known facts about this conflict: