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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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6 Classical Dances of India

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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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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

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Born	May 12, 1878 • Como • Italy
Died	July 21, 1960 (aged 82) • Rome • Italy
Founder	“900”
Notable Works	“Introduzioni e discorsi” • “La guardia alla luna” • “L’amante fedele”
Subjects Of Study	Italian literature

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Curzio Malaparte

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Ignazio Silone

Italian author

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

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Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

Giovanni Papini

Italian author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Ennio Flaiano

Italian author and critic

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

François Mauriac

French author

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

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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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