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Plate 26 from The natural history of monkeys

'An innumerable multitude of stars cover the whole ground of the heavens and there are probably many more than there here laid down on the nebula

Harold II (c1022-1066) was nominated as his successor as King of Angles and Saxons by Edward the Confessor

the rice-bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus

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