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Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:
Sang Sinxay, the most famous epic poem of Laos, was written around mid sixteenth century. [6] Franciade (French) by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c. 1572) [7] L'Amadigi by Bernardo Tasso (1560) La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589) La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)
Most scholars believe that the Exeter Book was compiled by a single scribe; [56] however, the works were almost certainly originally composed by poets. [54] A riddle in Old English, written using runic script, features on the Franks Casket. One possible solution for the riddle is 'whale', evoking the whale-bone from which the casket made. [57]
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
(1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe 's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [ 6 ] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age : a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.
Material: Vellum: Size: ≈ 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm × 5 cm (9.3 in × 6.4 in × 2.0 in) Format: One column in the page body, with slightly indented right margin and with paragraph divisions, and often with stars in the left margin; [12] the rest of the manuscript appears in the form of graphics (i.e. diagrams or markings for certain parts related to illustrations), containing some foldable parts
A man in the U.K. spent as much time behind bars as it takes to watch an episode of Stranger Things after receiving what is being called the country's shortest ever prison sentence.. Shane Jenkins ...
Vellum New Testament in later version, translated into Middle English by Wycliffe and John Purvey. Previously owned by Alexander Peckover and Apsley Cherry-Garrard. John Wycliffe: 1st half of the 15th century December 2016 [140] $2.5 $1.67 Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp