Such stones were useless to the early quarriers, although they would often take the specimens home as curiosities. |
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Drawings and ephemera throughout the room make it a veritable collector's cabinet of curiosities. |
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As analysis began to mix inextricably with geometry and the other branches of mathematics, the curiosities multiplied. |
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Specimens of minerals, ores, and gemstones began to be saved for their scientific value and as natural curiosities. |
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But beyond the collection of curiosities and oddments, nothing extensive or substantive remains from what he said. |
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The teocallis of the former are probably the greatest ancient wonders and curiosities on the Western Continent. |
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Books, postcards, ornamental and decorative pieces, curiosities and some plain junk. |
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Old style anthropological methods treated Indigenous peoples as historical curiosities, as remnants of a dead culture. |
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The unusual surface textures of fossil cycads have been interesting curiosities to collectors for a long time. |
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The mirror is currently on display in the Enlightenment Gallery in a cabinet devoted to other similar curiosities. |
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And amidst the displays of oddities and curiosities, the museum of anatomy was in some ways the oddest and most curious. |
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But at some point, you can not only observe these curiosities and understand them, but you can control them. |
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The exhibit presents the animals as fellow beings we are close to and responsible for, not as exotic curiosities for us to exploit. |
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A true memorial must address the imagination and not merely present an assortment of ghoulish curiosities. |
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The primary lesson we took from our Delphic oracle project is not the well-worn message that modern science can elucidate ancient curiosities. |
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What place does history have in this cabinet of curiosities and the catalogue that enumerates its holdings? |
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The etagere was the focal point of the parlor and often displayed precious glass, marble, porcelain, and curiosities on its cascading shelves. |
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Her conceptual artworks are curiosities rather than the cat's pyjamas, says Cristin Leach. |
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You know that I have an agent who is always on the look-out for rarities and curiosities for my collection. |
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This was an ai or three-toed sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman, who was collecting curiosities. |
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However, this general problem of the volume is enlivened by a few apparently illogical digressions and unclassifiable curiosities. |
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One of the most ancient of mathematical curiosities is the so-called magic square. |
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I try to withhold all curiosities and concentrate on maintaining my composure. |
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Improved understanding of gastropod phylogenetics goes far beyond satisfying the trivial curiosities of malacologists. |
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Listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, the town of Luxembourg is home to a large number of curiosities. |
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Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
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Books, clothes, trinkets and curiosities will be on sale from 10 am. |
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The embedding of the displays in a setting with its own architectural claims on our respect and attention makes it difficult to take them as anything but curiosities. |
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But my well-balanced collection was replaced by curiosities. |
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And what a mixture of curiosities, myth, banalities and omissions it was. |
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As in Kota Bahru and other capitals of the provinces of the Malayan Federation, Kuala Terengganu is a modern city with few tourist curiosities. |
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Historians of the University of Toronto pictured the denominational schools, before they joined the public system, as outlying curiosities unworthy of serious attention. |
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Spinthariscopes sat on parlor shelves next to stereoscopic postcard viewers and kaleidoscopes, items in a cabinet of curiosities. |
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Encrustations of silica, known as sinter or geyserite, are volumetrically unimpressive but nevertheless are curiosities. |
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Barn dwellings are now historical curiosities, but other elements of Estonian folk culture remain alive. |
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The continual, daily surprise was that Parker was a creature of her own wills, moods and curiosities. |
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Both a modern city and a historical centre, Lisbon is the home to numerous curiosities. |
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Discover walks, curiosities and sites in this vast area bordered by Germany and the Netherlands. |
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Ever wanted to find out about some of the lesser known sides to the Eiffel Tower, its history and numerous curiosities? |
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Dutch professor of biochemistry, has a page with chess problems and curiosities. |
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On his blog you can find many articles about opening studies, position analyses, exercises, theory and curiosities. |
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With the end of the financial crisis in May 1838, these notes quickly disappeared from circulation and became curiosities for collectors. |
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In 1993, only a few very expensive sets were available in large sizes, as technological curiosities, with only a few experimental transmissions. |
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His TV Dinner was a feast of curiosities enmeshed with the everyday, a meal that leaves one feeling slightly queasy, even overstuffed, but eager for more. |
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Wandering around Tribeca, you may stumble upon a decrepit elevator shaft that's full of curiosities. |
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Others had very specific interests, such as numismatics, epigraphy, conservation or restoration techniques, or were chiefly involved in historical research or collected certain types of curiosities. |
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Marrakesh has such a wide range of sites and curiosities that easily planned visits off the beaten track will allow you to discover its unusual aspects. |
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Mankind's mythologies have been ransacked so thoroughly that the need to identify each orbiting rock has resulted in such curiosities as Zappafrank, Lennon, McCartney and even Bagehot. |
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The series of indexes may be used as a comprehensive guide to those first editions, rarities, and curiosities from the 15th to the 19th century held in the Lowy Collection and displayed in the exhibition. |
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The writer moves through a collection of curiosities like a recording machine, and later delivers selected picturesque morsels for the ironic consumption of the European public. |
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Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died. |
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Whereas the COB employs just over 200 people, Britain's FSA has over 2,000. These differences of style might be mere curiosities but for one thing: the globalisation of both the capital markets and the equity investor. |
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Or head to the Griffintown Cultural Corridor to discover local curiosities in all their glory, including a guided tour of a theatre workshop, music, dance, poetry and even a scavenger hunt! |
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Fancy diamonds are not any more that simple curiosities of collectors, in fact attractive diamonds attract all covetousness's and largest jeweller's knew to emphasize them by imagining single creations. |
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As late as the mid-19th century, bacteria were known only to a few experts and in a few forms as curiosities of the microscope, chiefly interesting for their minuteness and motility. |
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And then there's Tommy Perse, the legendary retail impresario behind the haute cabinet of curiosities Maxfield, who recently erected a demountable vintage Jean Prouvé house in the parking lot, just for fun. |
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They are cultivated worldwide as indoor plant curiosities. |
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The spirit of this gymkhana is to let the participants enter into secrets of the lifestyle of its habitants and the curiosities kept by various generations down trought the years. |
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Although certain of these synonyms are today no more than curiosities, having fallen into disuse, others still have a definite importance, being used in scientific works and in practice, notably in commerce. |
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Iron in its many forms is still the most widely used metal, but minerals which were only scientific curiosities a few years ago have come into common use during the first half of this century. |
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These objects were shipped to France, where they were avidly sought as curiosities. In fact, this type of birchbark box seems to have been made specifically for the European market. |
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Let yourself be carried off on this tour of the past and learn many interesting things about historical events, curiosities, the country and its people. |
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Dust, pollution and wear had taken such a toll that a passer-by would no longer notice the wealth of architectural and ornamental curiosities at the Grand Palais. |
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On the other hand, the amount of twisting involved in doing this dragging would often have been injurious to a sabre-tooth's spine. It was hunting technique, too, that explains one of the tar pits' curiosities. |
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On the trip back to Russia, sailors discovered that the preservations — glass jars filled with human and animal fetuses and other fleshy curiosities — were suspended in alcohol. |
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The historic port town conceals countless architectural curiosities. Both Basque and Gascon, the town is famous for its traditional summer festivals. |
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Think gothically inspired Victorian museum of curiosities with a generous side order of fetish leather thrown in for good measure. |
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There are curios and curiosities, like an early-17th-century French map of the soul, or a map engraved on a powder horn showing the approach to New York during the Seven Years' War. |
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If you have any curiosities, don't hesitate to have a look at what the Campagnolo YouTube channel has to offer. You can also find videos that are useful for the proper maintenance of your bike. |
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When he was able to purchase a chair of this sort, dealers pityingly confided that curiosities of that sort, had vanished with the buffalo lap robe and congress gaiters. |
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The room is a cave of carefully chosen curiosities, from the curved brass bar to the collection of vintage suitcases to the terrariums dangling in the bathrooms. |
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The superficial observer is amused, even delighted: he imagines he has come across a group of cruel practical jokers, cynical or subtle irony, collections of pungent curiosities, merciless exposures of pretence. |
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Although they were initially regarded as mere curiosities, by the 18th and 19th centuries kites were being used as vehicles for scientific research. |
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This included offices, accommodation and a collection of curiosities. |
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There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room. |
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