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It is Wisdom calling,
Understanding raising her voice.
She takes her stand at the topmost heights,
By the wayside, at the crossroads,
Near the gates at the city entrance;
At the entryways, she…
Places:
Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Biblical Period
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A Memento Mori is one of three vanitas pictures in a series commissioned by Isaac de Matatia Aboab, a wealthy East India merchant, emphasizing the impermanence of material pleasures and the transitory…
Contributor:
Benjamin Senior Godines
Places:
Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
Date:
1681
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The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are…
Places:
Elephantine (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
Date:
Fifth Century BCE
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World, they say it is your birthday,
a thousand years for each day of genesis
and we are using you up. But they have promised
that the next one will be better.
Oh End of Days, with your new earth
a…
Contributor:
Myra Sklarew
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1976