Word: replica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Vienna police heard that a comb manufacturer in the suburb of Meidling had a curious and profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing replica after replica of the Monte Carlo Casino's 100-franc chips. Anxiously the comb-maker regarded his visitors. When they inquired about the order, he spoke tremblingly of one Simon Rappaport, Polish merchant from Dombrowa...
Avenue with palaces, considered that the proper kind of a house to build in Asheville, N. C., was an exact replica of a Renaissance French chateau...
...despoiled by robbers, but still in a decent state of preservation. Queen Meryet-Amun (1480-40 B.C.) died soon after her coronation. Her body was prepared and wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power. The outer coffin, masterpiece of joiner's art, at one time encased in gold sheets, lying undisturbed for centuries in the dark crypt, "created an eerie effect...
...Mather has been appointed a member of the committee to consider the construction of a model of the United States, half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, to be exhibited in the Chicago Century of Progress celebration in 1933. This model, which is a replica of the whole country in miniature on a scale of one foot to the mile, has been proposed by Dr. Henry A. Buehler, State Geologist of Missouri, and Director of the Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines, stationed at Rolla, Missouri...