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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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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

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The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

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Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

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Born	March 29, 1885 • Subotica • Serbia
Died	November 3, 1936 (aged 51) • Budapest • Hungary
Notable Works	“A szegény kisgyermek panaszai” • “Wonder Maid”

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Edmund Wilson

American critic

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Baren

Chinese author and critic

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Rosario Ferré

Puerto Rican writer

John Wain

British critic and writer

Alice Dunbar Nelson

American author

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Satō Haruo

Japanese author

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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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