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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig. Lichfield, Staffordshire, England: birthplace of Samuel Johnson Dictionary page showing Samuel Johnson's 1755 definition of oats, including the remark that in England oats are fed to horses but in Scotland they support the people, with literary quotations. Samuel Johnson
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Star Child and the planet Jupiter from the film's final segment "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" directed by Stanley Kubrick. Science fiction
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Circa 1963 publicity photo of Alfred Hitchcock director of The Birds (1963).
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Learn about the history of the dictionary, from Dr. Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language to the Oxford English Dictionary
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Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait...
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Lichfield, Staffordshire, England: birthplace of Samuel Johnson
Birthplace of Samuel Johnson, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
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Samuel Johnson's definition of “Oats”
A detail of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755)....
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Samuel Johnson, undated engraving.
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