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Curiosities

Hippophagy
Insurrection
Sultan Mehmed Strangles His Brothers
Death of Sultan Murad
Christmas Dinner with James I and His Favourites
A Fifties Anti-Perversion Film
The Excesses of Ali Pasha
The Extravagances of the Nawab of Oudh
The Mouse of Darkness
The Complete Songs of Henry VIII
The Life and Times of Judas Iscariot
Boris Johnson
Churchill’s Mother
An Arab Thoroughbred
How Long is a Kalpa?
Barlaam the Hermit
Tavern-Haunters
Alexandra David-Néel
Tibetan Bread
Philosophy of Tea
Angry Animals

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