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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:
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.
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)
Istanbul #2461 (also Ni 2461, [1] L.2461) is an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet.Some have labelled it the world's oldest love poem. [2] [3] It is on display at the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient (Mesopotamia Hall).
A sentence in the Collatio beati Augustini cum Pascentio ariano (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G.V. 26) [94] Copy of a text originally written in the first half of the 5th century. second half of 6th century: Old High German: Pforzen buckle [95] mid-6th century: Old Korean: Mokgan No. 221 [96] c. 575: Telugu: Erragudipadu inscription [87]
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 ...
This is the longest word that can be written without a space. However, not all words in Vietnamese are single morphemes. Indeed, nghiêng can be reduplicated as nghiêng nghiêng. The written language abounds with compound words in which each constituent word is delimited by spaces, just like any freestanding word.