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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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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

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B-52G with cruise missiles, USAF, short range attack missiles SRAMs; guided missile

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Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

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Two puppies and a kitten, puppy playfully biting kitten's head

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Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

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earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

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Born	April 17, 1902 • Mexico City • Mexico
Died	May 13, 1974 (aged 72) • Mexico City • Mexico • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Notable Works	“Biombo” • “Cripta” • “Fervor” • “La casa” • “Los Días”

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Rosario Castellanos

Mexican writer

Agustín Yáñez

Mexican writer and statesman

Alfonso Reyes

Mexican writer

José Vasconcelos

Mexican educator

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

Fernando del Paso

Mexican author and artist

Amado Nervo

Mexican author

Ramón López Velarde

Mexican poet

José Agustín

Mexican author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Argentine author

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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:

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

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