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Suffragette Votes for Women Christmas Card

Suffragette Votes for Women Christmas Card. Tabby cat with a feather in its hat, ribbon badge and satchel, holds a Vote for Women scroll. The cat is standing on a barrell on which is another scroll reading And a Happy Time'. Captioned A Jolly Christmas very much in the style of Louis Wain. Date: circa 1908

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Dead Sea scroll fragment, 1st century AD

Dead Sea scroll fragment. These scrolls, found in caves between 1947 and 1979 on the north-western shore of the Dead Sea, include some of the earliest surviving biblical documents. This fragment is known as the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, the War Rule, or 4Q491. It is a military text that is written in Herodian script (the language used at the time of King Herod) and dates to the early 1st century AD. It describes an apocalyptic prophecy, stating that war would occur between the Sons of Light (the Jewish army) and the Sons of Darkness (the troops of the Kittim of Assyria). Matson Photo Service image

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Plate 17: a cartouche with a marble center, an infant on either side holding a garland

Plate 17: a cartouche with a marble center, an infant on either side holding a garland over the horns of a ram in center, from Collection of various caprices and new inventions of cards and ornaments (Raccolta di varii cappriccii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti), 1646

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