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Replica of Edward VII's love chair, manufactured by Louis Soubrier, a famed cabinetmaker of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. (Photo courtesy of M.S. Rau, New Orleans)

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A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

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Early bicycles (velocipede) invented by Karl von Drais, sometimes known as a 'hobby horse' or 'dandy horse,' with male riders, Paris, France, circa 1818. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

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