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  2. Pyramid Texts - Wikipedia

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    The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts .

  3. Ozymandias - Wikipedia

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    The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.

  4. Ancient Egyptian literature - Wikipedia

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    Funerary poems were thought to preserve a monarch's soul in death. The Pyramid Texts are the earliest surviving religious literature incorporating poetic verse. [125] These texts do not appear in tombs or pyramids originating before the reign of Unas (r. 2375–2345 BC), who had the Pyramid of Unas built at Saqqara. [125]

  5. Pyramid of Cestius - Wikipedia

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    The pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. [ 1 ]

  6. Nipsey Russell - Wikipedia

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    Russell’s specialty on game shows was delivering short, humorous poems. He was a regular panelist on a 1970s ABC show, Rhyme and Reason, built around his poetic talents. [16] In 1979, he told Jet magazine, “I knew two poems and one day, on a show called Missing Links (Ed McMahon was the host), I did one poem and everybody applauded. The ...

  7. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    As the poem ends, the trance caused by the nightingale is broken and the narrator is left wondering if it was a real vision or just a dream. [24] The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further ...

  8. Play Solitaire Pyramid Challenge Online for Free - AOL.com

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    Solitaire: Pyramid Challenge. Play five solitaire hands in a row to see how you rank. By Masque Publishing

  9. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain; the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains.