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Watercolor Illustration to Milton's On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, by William Blake

سانچہ:*mp... that William Blake sought in his illustrations of Milton's Nativity Ode (example pictured) to depict the rebirth of John Milton's poetry into the creative imagination of Christ? سانچہ:*mp... that a March fracture has nothing to do with the month of March, but is a fracture of metatarsals mostly occurring in soldiers who need to do a lot of marching? سانچہ:*mp... that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania, the mayor proclaimed "December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"? سانچہ:*mp... that in Doris Lessing's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"? سانچہ:*mp... that the Little Blitzen River is a tributary of Oregon's Donner und Blitzen River and part of the first redband trout reserve in the United States? سانچہ:*mp... that Randy L. Bott, the highest-rated professor for 2008 on Ratemyprofessors.com, calls his tests "celebrations"? سانچہ:*mp... that the Naked Camera character Jake Stevens released the Christmas single "Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" in 2006?

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