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Sergio Díaz Ruiz uses satellite imagery to explore climate change by creating an image of Earth as it might be analysed by a distant alien civilisation
Master of disguise: how a Navy sailor escaped a Napoleonic prison
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Back splice
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documentary artifact: bend
documentary artifact: clew, hammock
documentary artifact: hitch
documentary artifact: knot
documentary artifact: knot collection
documentary artifact: matting
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
documentary artifact: sinnet
documentary artifact: splice
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sound communication t&e: bellrope
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surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
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water transport: passenger vessel: liner
water transport component: interior, vessel: music room
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Garner, Will
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Beckwith, Fred
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Knowler, William
Merwe, Pieter van der
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