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* Among the treasures of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam are books on the Gnosis and the Corpus Hermeticum as published in Florence in 1471.
Among his treasures was a mirror through which every province could be seen, the fabled original from which the " speculum literature " of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance was derived, in which the prince's realms were surveyed and his duties laid out.
Among such historical treasures, Seokguram grotto, Bulguksa temple, Gyeongju Historic Areas and Yangdong Folk Village are designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
Among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a code etched into it.
Among the treasures unearthed by Botta and his successors, including Austen Henry Layard, with whom Hincks exchanged many letters, was the famous library of Assurbanipal, a royal archive containing tens of thousands of baked clay tablets.
Among its treasures are the oldest surviving tapestries in Europe, dating from the 12th century.
Among the treasures which he is recorded to have bestowed upon the then-impoverished monastery is one famously described " mycel englisc boc be gehwilcum þingum on leoðwisan geworht " ( i. e., " a large English book of poetic works about all sorts of things ").
Among the treasures which the sultan showed him was an old napless hat which had the power of transporting its wearer to any place he desired.
Among the collection's archeological treasures were seven magnificent sarcophagi from a burial chamber associated with the Calpurnii Pisones family.
" Among the church's treasures is the Byzantine icon of the Madonna del Terremoto.
Among the treasures is the baroque Manifestador de la plata ( Manifesting silver ) of the 18th century, the Pila Bautismal de plata ( baptismal font of silver ) neoclassical style, also of the 18th century, the Monumental Organ of the century and consists of 4600 flutes or voices, the image Señor de la Sacristía ( Lord of the vestry ), made with pre-Hispanic art of " corn cane paste ", the 16th century, as well as valuable paintings located in the sacristy and the chapter.
His residence at Rome he turned to good account by diligent study of its ancient monuments, by examination of the literary treasures of its libraries, and by cultivating the acquaintance of men eminent in literature and in art, with whom he was brought into contact through his translation of Francesco Cardinal Barberini's Life of Pius V. Among his friends was Nicolas Poussin, whose counsels were of great value to him, and under whose guidance he even attempted to paint and whose biography Félibien wrote, which remains " the most persuasive guide to the work, as to the life " of Poussin, as the biography's modern editor Claire Pace observed.
Among the historical treasures of the region are the Roman fort Milančeva Kula, Rmanj monastery, many medieval fortresses like Oštrovica medieval fortres above Kulen Vakuf and the Ostrožac Castle, to name just a few.
Among other medieval architectural treasures reflecting the Persian roots of architecture in the region are the Shirvan shahs ' palace in Baku, the palace of the Shaki Khans in the town of Shaki in north-central Azerbaijan, the Surakhany Temple on the Apsheron Peninsula, a number of bridges spanning the Aras River, and several mausoleums.
Among the library ’ s most precious treasures are the Psalter of Ludwig the German () dating from the 9th century and an elaborately adorned copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
Among its features are a wedding gazebo, a replica of the Castillo de San Marcos ( North America's oldest fort ), an alligator exhibit featuring animals from the Gatorland theme park, and a display with treasures from the Spanish galleon Our Lady of Atocha, sunk off the Florida coast in 1622.
Among the treasures brought back from the Sorcerer-King's tomb, Garret discovers a talisman that was reputedly used to destroy buildings.
Among these are many Asian art treasures and works by Van Dyck, Albert Bierstadt, Richard Serra and Alexander Calder.
Among these treasures is the 22 meter long Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis, the world ’ s longest-necked Jurassic dinosaur.
Among the surviving treasures are a majestic glazed-tiled archway in front of the complex, a terrace and a glazed-tiled pagoda.

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Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;
Among his films is Kwaidan ( 1965 ), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
Among other items, Roosevelt brought with him four tons of salt for preserving animal hides, a lucky rabbit's foot given to him by boxer John L. Sullivan, a Holland and Holland double rifle in. 500 / 450 donated by a group of 56 admiring Britons, a Winchester 1895 rifle in. 405 Winchester, an Army ( M1903 ) Springfield in. 30-06 caliber stocked and sighted for him, a Fox No. 12 shotgun, and the famous Pigskin Library, a collection of classics bound in pig leather and transported in a single reinforced trunk.
Among the possible uses of the term is a collection of laboratory test
Among the decisions involved in managing the collection of tolls on the Rhine were:
Among Clementi's compositions the most remarkable are sixty sonatas for pianoforte, and the great collection of Etudes called Gradus ad Parnassum.
Among the established lyrists, Olav H. Hauge transitioned to modernistic and concretist poetry and enjoyed a renaissance, especially with his collection entitled Dropar in austavind, which inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vold.
Among the principal governmental functions vested in Alabama counties are law enforcement ; tax assessment, levy and collection ; administration of decedent's estates and probate matters ; maintenance of real and personal property title records ; construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges ; and maintenance of the county courthouse, which provides office space for various county officials and departments.
Among his final publications were Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism ( 2007 ), On Empire ( 2008 ), and the collection of essays How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840 – 2011 ( 2011 ).
Among its collection of artifacts are Captain Kirk's command chair from Star Trek, the B9 robot from Lost in Space, the Death Star model from Star Wars, the T800 Terminator and the dome from the film Silent Running.
Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.
Among the most well known are found at Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeastern Iowa, the largest known collection of mounds in the United States.
Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).
Among notable works in the archive are the Lunther Cody collection of glass negatives documenting classic life in New England.
Among the vast Morris collection at the IAT are 381 titles of books and journal articles regarding pragmatism, logical empiricism, poetry, ethics, and Asian studies.
Among the poems in the collection are " Song of Myself ", " I Sing the Body Electric ", " Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ", and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ".
Among other things, he insisted on the necessity of purchasing a collection of pictures by the best masters as models for the students, and proposed several of those in the Orleans collection.
Among the best-known Jewish ossuaries of this period are: an ossuary inscribed ' Simon the Temple builder ' in the collection of the Israel Museum, another incribed ' Elisheba wife of Tarfon ', one inscribed ' Yehohanan ben Hagkol ' that contained an iron nail in a heel bone suggesting crucifixion, another inscribed ' James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus ', the authenticity of which is suspect, and ten ossuaries recovered from the Talpiot Tomb in 1980, several of which are reported to have names from the New Testament.
Among them is a renowned collection of the art and culture of nomadic tribes of the Altai from Pazyryk and Bashadar sites, including the world's oldest surviving knotted pile carpet and a well-preserved wooden chariot, both from the 4th – 3rd centuries BC.
Among the losses were about 700 manuscripts and incunabula, and a unique collection of Bosnian serial publications, some from the middle of the 19th-century Bosnian cultural revival.
Among his other publications were: Briefe Goethes an F. A. Wolf ( 1868 ); Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Schlegelschen Shakespeare ( 1872 ) ; an introduction to Hirzel's collection entitled Der junge Goethe ( 1875 ); and he edited a revised edition of Voss's translation of the Odyssey.
Among his other works are his edition of Hariri ( 1822 ), with a selected Arabic commentary, and of the Alfiya ( 1833 ), and his Calila et Dimna ( 1816 ), the Arabic version of that famous collection of Buddhist animal tales which has been in various forms one of the most popular books of the world.
Among the music Helmut Hochstein lists as being composed for Venice, are to be found four oratorios: " Isacco figura del Redentore ", " La Betulia liberata ", " Joas ", " Juda proditor "; some numbers in a collection of solo motets called Modulamina Sacra ; one Missa breve in F major with its Credo in D major, probably a second mass in G major, 47 one Te Deum, and five psalms.

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