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Cabinet - Sources

Железорудные окатыши и индустриальные моногорода (Казахстан)
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Book Forms: Overview
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Official letters
Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Желтоксан (Казахстан)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Secrets of the calendar
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Zebra print bikini