Karel Hynek Mácha

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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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Defenestration of Prague, this incident marks the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in 1618.

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

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Four year old boy with grandfather and father lighting Hanukkah menorah. Photo taken on: December 21st, 2009

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Monitor. Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea can grows to 2.7 metres (9 ft.) aka Tree crocodile, Crocodile monitor, Salvadori's monitor, artellia, reptile

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The Prado Museum facade at the Diego Velaszquez memorial. Established in 1819, the museum is considered the best collection of Spanish art and one of the world's finest collections of European art. Madrid, Spain

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Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

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Born	November 16, 1810 • Prague • Czech Republic
Died	November 5, 1836 (aged 25) • Czech Republic
Notable Works	“May”
Movement / Style	Romanticism

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

William Blake

British writer and artist

Victor Hugo

French writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Lord Byron

British poet

William Wordsworth

English author

John Keats

British poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer

Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Théophile Gautier

French author

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish poet

Thomas Chatterton

British poet

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

N.F.S. Grundtvig

Danish bishop and poet

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

Danish author

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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:

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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

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

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