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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Monstrances
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Purpose
Russian kitchen-maid
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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JH5: Silver diobol of Miletos (Ionia).
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Saami cradle
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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Russian couple
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Colleges
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Anatomical engravings
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Russian men
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Looking to the future
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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