Christopher Okigbo

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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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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)

9 Worst Generals in History

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Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket?

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

Is Australia an Island?

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

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Born	August 16, 1932 • Nigeria
Died	August 1967 (aged 34) • Nigeria
Role In	Nigerian Civil War

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Onuora Nzekwu

Nigerian author and educator

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

A.J.M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

John Pepper Clark

Nigerian author

Gabriel Okara

Nigerian author

Ben Okri

Nigerian writer

Cyprian Ekwensi

Nigerian author

Buchi Emecheta

Nigerian author and sociologist

John Munonye

Nigerian educator and novelist

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Samuel Johnson

English author

Alexander Pope

English author

Lord Byron

British poet

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

W. H. Auden

British poet

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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:

Poetry: First Lines

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

A Study of Poetry

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