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bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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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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Ecbasis captivi

Latin beast epic

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role of Isengrim

In Isengrim
…a character in the Latin Ecbasis captivi (c. 940), in which the beasts are unnamed, and under his own name in Ysengrimus (1152). He is the main character in both epics. In the first he is represented as a monk to symbolize slothful and degenerate clergy of the period; in…
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