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  • Jerusalem to Cairo "Passed By Censor" postcard on album page

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    April 5, 1918
  • Haleb cover on album page

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    March 4, 1919
  • Beirut to Alexandria cover on album page

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    March 3, 1919
  • A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon, and other irregular phraseology Compiled and edited by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland. With a new introd. by Eric Partridge

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    1967
  • Betsy Hendry Miller sound recording

  • Experimental comparison between a series of turns of different diameter on a Gloster IV seaplane / by J. K. Hardy ; presented by the Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry

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    1930
  • Grafted arts art making and taking in the struggle for western India : 1760-1910 Holly Shaffer

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  • London bridge : late 29th century British art and the routes of 'natural culture' / Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd

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  • An Act for encouraging the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for securing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Velvets, Wrought Silks, and Silks mixed with other Materials, not manufactured in Great Britain

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  • Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women Alison Hill

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