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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Plate to print: carrot
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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Religion in the Holy Roman Empire, 1618
Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Erasmus, Title Page of Adagia (1518)
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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Saami bride and groom
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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