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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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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Britannica’s Book Bingo

10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

9 American Countercultural Books

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Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.

Where Is “Old Zealand”?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

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

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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Also Known As	Harold Edward Porter
Born	February 16, 1911 • Australia
Died	September 29, 1984 (aged 73) • Melbourne • Australia
Notable Works	“The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony”

David Malouf

Australian author

Henry Handel Richardson

Australian novelist

Vance Palmer

Australian author

Thea Astley

Australian author

Xavier Herbert

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Steele Rudd

Australian writer

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Australian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Sylvia Plath

American author

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

John G. Neihardt

American poet

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

Paul Auster

American author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Gertrude Stein

American writer

G.K. Chesterton

British 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

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

A Study of Poetry

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