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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Robert Plot
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Introduction
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Fanny's Chickens
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The astrolabe
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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University Church
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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1979 offer letter