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    Military Medal Collection

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    remained consistently stable and rare or antique medals either retain or increase their value. Therefore, they are an excellent investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Medal Choose Your Area of Focus Very Carefully Novice military medal collectors should avoid simply collecting available or interesting medals. Instead, they should research and select a theme or focus area that is personally stimulating and enjoyable. For example, focus on a single country, war…

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    originally intended for children and young adults, they have become popular with adult collectors, they have there own limited edition models that are now made available. Through the years, Hot Wheels cars have been collected mostly by children, but in the last 15 years, there has been an increase in the number of adult collectors. Mattel estimates that 41 million children grew up playing with the toys, the average collector has over…

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    Energy Payback Time Essay

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    because here no artificial cooling arrangement is applied. Hence the EPBT for the case 1 is 8.23 years, while for case 2 when the top air cooling is provided with the panel is1.24 year and for case 3 is 1.09 years. In case 4 and 5, hybrid solar PVT collector gets bottom cooled by water at flow rate 1 and 2 respectively. The mass flow rate is also increased in the case of flow rate 2 as compared to flow rate 1. The mass flow rate at flow rate 1 is 0.0068 kg/s while at flow rate 2, it is 0.0281…

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    “When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, what commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the…

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    on the outside you don’t see everything, there are different roles in the art world the curator, dealers, artists collectors, etc. Each of theses roles have a relation with one another and view art in their own way, so an artist would have a different look on art compared to a collector, this may be clear to anyone, but even in one specific role there are varying opinions. One collector may look at art as an investment while another looks at it as a way to enrich their life. Every book…

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    vehicles are made when manufacturers pour molten metals into a steel mold. Afterwards, they get decorated with plastic, rubber, other metal and glass. Before you purchase a diecast vehicle, first decide if you want a modern or vintage Honda diecast. Collectors normally hunt for the vintage pieces while children like the modern diecast models. That, however, is not always the case, and sometimes people collect all forms of diecast models. The diecast vehicles made after 1970 were considered more…

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    Museum Of Innocence

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    Thus in my thesis, I intend to delve into the following issues that are delicately developed and elaborated in the novel, catalog, and the museum. Firstly, how can we understand the nature of collecting from the collector—Kemal. Secondly, where does the urge to turn collections into literary text through the practice of cataloging and narrating comes from? In other words, how can an object initiate narrative? Thirdly, how can we understand the private museum space…

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    The Russian Era Essay

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    The Soviet Era After identifying the preferences of Russian collectors nowadays, it is reasonable to question if it is prompted by the development of Russian art during Soviet era. During the October Revolution in 1917 to 1932, the Lenin’s era was a period of relative freedom and experimentation for the art in any forms inside the country. Wide variety of trends was tolerated by the government, given that they were not explicitly oppose to the government. Lenin was conservative and traditional…

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    Licensing Antique Gun

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    collectible item. There are millions of antique gun collectors around the world. There are numerous antique gun shows around the country and across the globe that are held during the year. The majority of people that collect the antique guns are upright citizens and the guns are purely for enjoyment and dedication to their hobby. However, Police Lobbyist in the UK would like to bring about a few changes that would dramatically affect antique gun collectors. They would like antique guns licensed…

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    Cabinet Of Natural History

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    A defining feature of any collection, whether it be of curiosities, natural specimens, art works, or other objects, is the presence of an underlying system of thought — an episteme — that shapes the way in which a collection grows and evolves. Differences in these epistemes can vary widely across the centuries, and the present paper will discuss the differences between two genres of cabinets: the Wunderkammern, or “cabinet of wonders”, of the 16th century during the Renaissance; and the…

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