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Badminton (Game)

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  • [Undated engraving of "I Gemelli Siamesi" (probably Chang and Eng Bunker), siamese twins, joined at the breast bone, playing badminton before a very serious looking audience. It is numbered Fig. 44 and Tav[ola] 13. Possibly 1840-1860].
  • The evolution of a shuttlecock and bats into a sheep into a timid young man, and his hat into a baby into his umbrella; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
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    The evolution of a shuttlecock and bats into a sheep into a timid young man, and his hat into a baby into his umbrella; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

    Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 12107i
    Part of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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    [Undated engraving of "I Gemelli Siamesi" (probably Chang and Eng Bunker), siamese twins, joined at the breast bone, playing badminton before a very serious looking audience. It is numbered Fig. 44 and Tav[ola] 13. Possibly 1840-1860].

    | Date: [between 1840 and 1860?]
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