Jacob Glatstein

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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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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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

Currency. Money. Cash. Dollars. Bills. Pile of ten, twenty, fifty, and hundred dollar bills.

6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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Also Known As	Yankev Glatshteyn
Born	August 20, 1896 • Lublin • Poland
Died	November 19, 1971 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	essay • “Poezye”
Movement / Style	Di Inzikhistn

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

American poet and journalist

Carl Sandburg

American poet and historian

Allen Tate

American author

James Weldon Johnson

American writer

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

Marcel Reich-Ranicki

German columnist and television personality

Karl Shapiro

American poet

Eunice Tietjens

poet, novelist, and editor

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Khushwant Singh

Indian writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Wole Soyinka

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Théophile Gautier

French author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

François Mauriac

French 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

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