Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... Kings of England was believed to cure scrofula , ' the King's Evil ' . Several such ' touchpieces ' in the London Museum still have the white silk ribbon attached to them which the king placed round the patient's neck . The most ...
... Kings of England was believed to cure scrofula , ' the King's Evil ' . Several such ' touchpieces ' in the London Museum still have the white silk ribbon attached to them which the king placed round the patient's neck . The most ...
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... king , queen , two bishops , two knights , two rooks or castles and eight pawns , each type of man with its own powers of move and capture , the object of the game being to checkmate the adversary's king- to force him , that is to say ...
... king , queen , two bishops , two knights , two rooks or castles and eight pawns , each type of man with its own powers of move and capture , the object of the game being to checkmate the adversary's king- to force him , that is to say ...
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... king . The barrows of northern Europe offer interesting analogies . During the fifth and sixth dynasties ( from about 2400 B.C. to 2200 B.C. ) a strange and fascinating miscellany of texts was chiselled on the walls of the passages ...
... king . The barrows of northern Europe offer interesting analogies . During the fifth and sixth dynasties ( from about 2400 B.C. to 2200 B.C. ) a strange and fascinating miscellany of texts was chiselled on the walls of the passages ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
Urheberrecht | |
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