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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).

World Poetry Day

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Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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Born	January 10, 1916 • Côte d’Ivoire
Died	March 9, 2019 (aged 103) • Abidjan • Côte d’Ivoire
Notable Works	“Climbié” • “Un Nègre à Paris”
Subjects Of Study	folklore

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

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Sylvia Plath

American author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

François Mauriac

French author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Paul Ernst

German writer

Tchicaya U Tam’si

Congolese poet

Jules Supervielle

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Sigfrid Siwertz

Swedish author

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ivorian author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

D.H. Lawrence

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Victor Hugo

French writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

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

A Study of Poetry

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

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

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