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He wept and laughed and wept againWhen the story of A Christmas Carol came to Charles Dickens, “he wept over it, laughed, and then wept again". Rich Lowry describes how Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol and its worldwide influence in A Dickensian Christmas.
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INGENIOUS INVENTORS, INNOVATIVE THINKERSThey gave us the modern world. Some of it we love. Most of it we can't live without.
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