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Cabinet - Sources

Introduction
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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The Slave Trade
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Bishops
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Bangle
Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Carried into exile
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Relics
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Professor B F McGuinness
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Laocoon and his Sons
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Picture postcards
Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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