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... ancient retinted postcards , antediluvian textbooks of chemistry in English , French and German , unsaleable works of history and a few choice illuminated Arabic books . In the seventeeth century Jacob Spon found richer store . We knew ...
... ancient retinted postcards , antediluvian textbooks of chemistry in English , French and German , unsaleable works of history and a few choice illuminated Arabic books . In the seventeeth century Jacob Spon found richer store . We knew ...
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... ancient philosophy . Heraclitus would have been able to admire the Temple of Artemis in his native city which counted as one of the wonders of the ancient world ; burnt down one night in the year Alexander the Great was born by a madman ...
... ancient philosophy . Heraclitus would have been able to admire the Temple of Artemis in his native city which counted as one of the wonders of the ancient world ; burnt down one night in the year Alexander the Great was born by a madman ...
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... ancient town of Corycus of Cilicia Tracheia , the name of which is still retained in Korgos . Near it was the Corycian cavern , better known as the Cilician cave of Pindar and Æschylus and the bed of the giant Typhon . Around are , on ...
... ancient town of Corycus of Cilicia Tracheia , the name of which is still retained in Korgos . Near it was the Corycian cavern , better known as the Cilician cave of Pindar and Æschylus and the bed of the giant Typhon . Around are , on ...
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