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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

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Born	July 18, 1885 • Italy
Died	July 6, 1979 (aged 93) • Italy
Movement / Style	crepuscolarismo

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

Elsa Morante

Italian author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

Giorgio Bassani

Italian author

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italian author and director

Leonardo Sciascia

Italian author

Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

Corrado Alvaro

Italian author

Giovanni Papini

Italian author

Antonio Fogazzaro

Italian author

Guido Gozzano

Italian poet

Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist and novelist

Michelangelo

Italian artist

Dante

Italian poet

Petrarch

Italian poet

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

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

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