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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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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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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England
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Robert Bly
American author
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Rosario Ferré
Puerto Rican writer
Gregory Rabassa
American translator
Edward FitzGerald, miniature portrait by Eva Rivett-Carnac after a photograph of 1873; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward FitzGerald
British author
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
René Marqués
Puerto Rican author
Guillermo Valencia
Colombian author and statesman
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
León Felipe
Spanish poet
Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché
American poet
José Agustín
Mexican author
José Francisco de Isla
Spanish author
Charles Jervas
Irish painter
Bello, detail of an oil painting by Raymond-Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin, c. 1845; in the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas
Andrés Bello
Venezuelan-born Chilean poet and scholar

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