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Totem poles
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Astronomical tower clocks
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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The moons of Jupiter
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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14. Oil paint
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Worked in precious threads
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The King's Gate, Corpus Christi College
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Saami man
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Queenette’s Dining Club
The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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