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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Saami bridegroom
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Plate to print: process
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Clone of Bezoar
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
Wadham College, 1610-13
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A supra-national entity
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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Introduction
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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