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Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.

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

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William Barnes, portrait by G. Stuckey, c. 1870; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Barnes

English poet

Biagio Marin

Italian poet

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Hermann Collitz

American linguist

Assen, Ivar

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

Bridel, etching after a portrait by Franz Doyen, c. 1800

Philippe-Sirice Bridel

Swiss author

Graziadio Isaia Ascoli

Italian linguist

Antanas Baranauskas

Lithuanian poet

Friedrich Bechtel

German scholar

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YOLO "You Only Live Once" written in bright colors and repeated on a purple background (acronym, slang)

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Artwork of British Union Jack in a speech bubble.

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Hand with pencil writing on page. (handwriting; write)

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