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Roman Voting Assemblies: From the Hannibalic War to the Dictatorship of Caesar (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

by Lily Ross Taylor

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Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

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Goethe: Italienische Reise: Bereicherte Ausgabe. Lebhafter Reisebericht durch Landschaft, Kunst und Kultur Italiens – Rom, Renaissance und Geistesgeschichte (German Edition)

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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