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This document contains brief mentions of four notable figures: Maya Angelou, an American poet and civil rights activist; Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist best known for The Scarlet Letter; The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's 1850 novel about adultery in Puritan Massachusetts; and Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter who was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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