To Urania

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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

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

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

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

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

To Urania

poetry by Brodsky

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discussed in biography

In Joseph Brodsky
…the Twentieth Century (1986), and To Urania (1988) and the essays in Less Than One (1986). His notable posthumous publications include the collections So Forth (1996) and Nativity Poems (2001) and the children’s poem Discovery (1999).
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