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  2. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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    "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" is frequently said to be the shortest poem in the English language, [1] or the shortest in the world. [2] However, many shorter poems have since been written. A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali .

  3. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    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)

  5. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.

  6. Codex Leicester - Wikipedia

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    Until 2021, the codex remained the most expensive book ever sold. [ 11 ] After Gates acquired the codex, he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as screensaver and wallpaper files on a CD-ROM as part of a Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 desktop theme, which would later be included with Windows 98 ...

  7. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.

  8. Man given Britain's 'shortest ever' prison sentence, spends ...

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    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 ...

  9. Istanbul 2461 - Wikipedia

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    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).