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  2. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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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:

  3. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    (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.

  4. The Rotters' Club (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book contains one of the longest sentences in English literature, with 13,955 words. The Rotters' Club was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel that consisted of one great sentence. [4]

  5. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... with most written during the 9th to 11th centuries ... ever more 'willable forward/again and again and ...

  6. 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).

  7. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part-of-speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; "to" may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; "time" may be a noun or a verb.

  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. Sentences - Wikipedia

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    The Sentences (Latin: Sententiae in quatuor IV libris distinctae; Sententiarum. English: Sentences Divided into Four Books; Sentences) is a compendium of Christian theology written by Peter Lombard around 1150. It was the most important religious textbook of the Middle Ages.