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  2. Malayalam literature - Wikipedia

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    Folk songs are the oldest literary form in Malayalam. [33] They were just oral songs. [33] Many of them were related to agricultural activities, including Pulayar Pattu, Pulluvan Pattu, Njattu Pattu, Koythu Pattu, etc. [33] Other Ballads of Folk Song period include the Vadakkan Pattukal (Northern songs) in North Malabar region and the Thekkan Pattukal (Southern songs) in Southern Travancore. [33]

  3. Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing.

  4. Tamil historical novels - Wikipedia

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    The book gave birth to a new literary genre and Tamil prose began to be recognized as an increasingly important part of the language. One can see the style of any Tamil author in this novel. Aabathukidamaana Apavaadham -or- Kamalaambaal Charithram is written by Rajam Iyer from Vathalakundu in the later part of the 19th century is the first ...

  5. History of books - Wikipedia

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    The history of the book became an acknowledged academic discipline in the latter half of the 20th century. It was fostered by William Ivins Jr.'s Prints and Visual Communication (1953) and Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre's L'apparition du livre (The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800) in 1958 as well as Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man ...

  6. Global spread of the printing press - Wikipedia

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    In 1491, the first book in Cyrillic script was published by Schweipolt Fiol from Franconia. [44] In 1513, Florian Ungler printed Hortulus Animae, the first book in the Polish language. 1499 [15] Danzig: Franz Rhode: 1538: Wisby'sches Waterrecht, 1540: Narratio Prima: 1580 [33] Warsaw: 1593 Lwów [33] Matthias Bernhart

  7. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam, thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. [28] The Tamil Lexicon, published by the University of Madras, was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages. [29]

  8. Bible translations into Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Bible printed in 1715 at Tharangambadi A page of Genesis in Ziegenbalg & Fabricius's version, 1723. The history of Bible translations into the Tamil language commences with the arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg at Tranquebar in 1706. Johann Philipp Fabricius, a

  9. Comic book - Wikipedia

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    Comic books on display at a museum, depicting how they would have been displayed at a rail station store in the first half of the 20th century A common comic-book cover format displays the issue number, date, price and publisher along with an illustration and cover copy which may include a story's title.

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