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Silver Cup.A Short History of the English People (1902)

From barrow of Gorm and Thyra, Jutland. Worsaae, “Industrial Arts of Denmark.” Found in the huge double barrow in which the heathen king Gorm the Old, founder of the Danish monarchy (c. 900-936), and [...]

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1425.—Group of Christening Gifts.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Thus Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] was at last Queen of England, and Katherine deposed. At first all things smiled upon the beautiful and light-hearted woman who now presided over the domestic arrangement [...]

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Added: 2007-12-30

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

Tantalus’s cup. Let a hole be made quite through the bottom of the cup A (fig. 11) and the longer leg of the bended syphon BCED be cemented into the hole, so that the end D of the shorter leg DE may a [...]

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Added: 2018-03-01

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus (no letters)Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This is a version of the Cup of Tantalus diagram, without the letters that tie it to the text.

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