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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, 1915, Los Andes, Chile, to Manuel Magallanes...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, March 20, 1915, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, March 14, 1915, Santiago Chile, to Manuel...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, March 24, 1915, Santiago Chile, to Manuel...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, May 27, 1915, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, May 28, 1915, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel...
Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was an educator, diplomat, and poet, who in 1945 became the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, 1915, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel Magallanes...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, April 7, 1915, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, November 14, 1918, Punta Arenas, Chile, to...
Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was an educator, diplomat, and poet, who in 1945 became the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, 1922, Santiago, Chile, to Manuel Magallanes...
Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was an educator, diplomat, and poet, who in 1945 became the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born...
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Letter from Gabriela Mistral, January 29, 1923, San Angel, Mexico, to Manuel...
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The Book of Kings
This manuscript containing 215 illustrations is one of the largest pictorial cycles of the Shāhnāma, the Persian Book of Kings. Several painters, working at different times, were involved in its...
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Anthology of Rumi’s Poetry
Divan-i Mawlavī Rumi (Anthology of Rumi’s poetry) is a collection by the great Persian poet, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, popularly known in Persian as Mawlānā and in English as Rumi (1207–73). The...
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The Quintessence of Medicine
The author of this treatise, Isma‘īl ibn Muhammad al-Husayn al-Jurjānī (circa 1042–1136), also known as al-Sayyid Isma‘īl, was one of the most-famous physicians and prolific writers on medicine of his...
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The Wonders of Creation
Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (1203–83) spent most of his life in present-day Iran and Iraq and served as a judge in Wasit and Hilla, Iraq, during the reign of the last Abbasid caliph, Musta‘sim...
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The Wonders of Creation
This cosmography by Zakarīyā Ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnī (circa 1203–83), Kitāb‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (The wonders of creation, or literally, Marvels of things created and miraculous...
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Record of Songs and Dances Performed by Professional Female Entertainers
Gyobanggayo is a collection of 19th-century songs and dances by the gisaeng (the Korean equivalent of geisha). Gyobang were the facilities that trained and controlled gisaeng, who belonged to the...
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Trader in the Registan. Samarkand
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) used a special color photography process to create a visual record of the Russian...
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Sound Advice
Muḥammad Ḥusain Āzād (also called Ehsan Azad, circa 1834–1910) was a successful Urdu poet and a writer of vivid prose, particularly in his historical writing. He was born in Delhi, where his father,...
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Earthquakes of India: Volume I
This work describes the events before, during, and after a massive earthquake that struck early in the morning of April 4, 1905, at Kangra, a town in the Himalayan foothills in the northern region of...
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