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Cabinet - Sources

Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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Zebra print bikini
Saami bridegroom
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Thomas Hobbes
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Relics
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Ostrich egg
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Comenius
Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Queenie No. 5, Vol. VIII
Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Reformers
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From decoration to illustration
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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