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The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon
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Alexander Graham Bell’s “Large Box” Telephone, 1876
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“The Parthenon” by Frederic Edwin Church
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“Entry of Alexander into Babylon” by Charles Le Brun
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“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
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“Salvator Mundi” by Albrecht Dürer
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Medea by Frederick Sandys
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National Constitution Center
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“Alexander Hamilton” by John Trumbull
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Torso of a Hoplite Warrior
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“An Out-of-Doors Study” by John Singer Sargent
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John Trumbull
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“The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the Younger
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The National Gallery, London
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