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This is how the Vendôme Column might have looked, erected by Napoleon in 1807 in honour of the victory at Austerlitz. The associations are no accident: the form does indeed match the message. The original in the end differs little from the prototype, save for a somewhat widened viewing platform
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Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen
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In 1577 Sir Humphrey Gilbert presented Elizabeth I with a narwhal tusk adorned with gold, and said it was the horn of a sea unicorn. In principle, one can hardly find fault.
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Let us try to examine the furnishings of the drawing room in which such meetings take place. On the piano stands a row of family photographs. King George V and Queen Mary of Teck with Mr J. Walter Jones, the pigeon trainer of the Sandringham estate. A photograph of 1899
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This silver medal was commissioned by the merchants of Saint Petersburg to commemorate the accession of Alexander I. It was struck in Prussia, at the Royal Mint in Berlin. The engraver was Abramson. On the obverse: Minerva, holding a pike in her left hand and in her right a shield
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The motto on a commemorative medal with a most unusual obverse design. An eagle with a sceptre and orb in its talons soars in the rays of the All-Seeing Eye above a curious device: a minting screw press, a balancier. The medal was struck in 1763 to mark the
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