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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

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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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Ramon Llull.

Ramon Llull

Catalan mystic

Balaguer, Victor

Victor Balaguer

Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian

d'Ors y Rovira, Eugenio

Eugenio d’Ors y Rovira

Catalan author and philosopher

Bernat Metge

Spanish poet

Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona

Buenaventura Carles Aribau

Spanish author

Ausias March, detail of a lithograph

Ausias March

Valencian poet

Ángel Guimerá

Catalan writer

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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

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