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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

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Flourished	c.360 BCE - c.300 BCE • ancient Greece
Died	İzmir? • Turkey
Movement / Style	New Comedy

Crates

Greek actor and author

Menander

Greek dramatist

Alexis

Greek writer

Philemon

Greek poet

Aristophanes

Greek dramatist

Antiphanes

Greek writer

Phrynichus

Greek comic poet

Epicharmus

Greek poet

Thespis

Greek poet

Eupolis

Greek dramatist

Cratinus

Greek poet

William Shakespeare

English author

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

John Dryden

British author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Gil Vicente

Portuguese dramatist

Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

Scandinavian author

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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