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No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons
When Japan opened up in the 1850s to the West, all these prints started arriving, and all the impressionists were crazy about them. Monet got a real bargain in Zandam — he was in Holland for a bit, and there was a…
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The Tower of Jericho is the oldest stone building in the world, 8,000 years old.
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Jericho is supposed to be the oldest city in the world, on the Palestinian West Bank. The Tower of Jericho is the oldest stone building in the world, 8,000 years old. In Neolithic Jericho, the doors were in the roof.
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In 1915, a wealthy barrister called Sir Cecil Chubb went to an auction in Salisbury intending to buy a pair of curtains at a knock-down price and ended up buying Stonehenge.
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