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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).

World Poetry Day

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You Ought to Be in Pictures: 8 Filming Locations You Can Actually Visit

The Persistence of Memory, 1931, by Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-89), 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm), The Museum of Modern Art, New York USA, MoMA Number: 162.1934

Salvador Dalí Turns 111

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Why Does Salt Melt Ice?

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

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6 Classical Dances of India

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

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Born	January 28, 1924 • Brussels • Belgium
Died	January 28, 1976 (aged 52) • Cologne • Germany
Movement / Style	Surrealism

Charles Plisnier

Belgian author

Paul Nougé

Belgian author

Christian Dotremont

Belgian author

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Clément Pansaers

Belgian poet

Henry Bauchau

Belgian author

Max Elskamp

Belgian poet

André van Hasselt

Belgian poet

Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Max Waller

Belgian poet

Marcel Thiry

Belgian author

Georges Rodenbach

Belgian poet

Marie Gevers

Belgian writer

Émile Cammaerts

Belgian poet and writer

Géo Norge

Belgian author

Henri Michaux

French painter and poet

Jean Lemaire de Belges

Belgian poet

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

A Study of Poetry

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