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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Portrait of a Saami man
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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7. Distillation
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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The early modern siege
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Apadana audience relief
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Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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The Oxford Crown
Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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The Indian Institute
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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