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

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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

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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.

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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)

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Born	February 21, 1903 • France
Died	October 25, 1976 (aged 73) • Paris • France

Victor Hugo

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

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André Gide

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Alphonse Daudet

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Jean Cocteau

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Colette

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Michel Houellebecq

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Théophile Gautier

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François Mauriac

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Jules Romains

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Jean Cayrol

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Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot

Paul Scarron

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Michel Butor

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Hervé Bazin

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Michel Leiris

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Pierre-Jean Jouve

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Max Jacob

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Louis Aragon

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Marguerite Yourcenar

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

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