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  • ABOVE: The Guggenheim, inside links to museum's site, timeline of the building's constructionABOVE: Nautilus shell's spiral of chambers, called camerae, that this cephalopod builds for itself as it grows.

    Starship & Museum Bulletin Board #1 Fresca 2010

  • If you could figure out a way to watch a chat room live while you are streaming, you could literally listen to your audience and direct your camerae where they want it.

    Little cameras « BuzzMachine 2008

  • Under the circumstances, if Chaucer ever was a “vallettus camerae Regis,” we should expect him to have been so called more than once.

    Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

  • They were _servi camerae_, serfs of the state, and as such had to pay oppressive taxes.

    Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900

  • Jews as his "servi camerae" paid him for protecting their persons and property.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • What one would give to see the shapes glide over the field of those camerae obscurae, the hearts of the street Arabs! once to gaze on the jewelled beauties through the eyes of those shocked haired girls!

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • Scary evil GramscoFabiaNazi numbers about surveillance camerae in the UK.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • a match volume: children, too, have their own _camerae obscurae_; there are the Cosmoramas at the Bazaar, as great in their way as Mr. Hornor's

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 Various

  • Under the circumstances, if Chaucer ever was a "vallettus camerae

    Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

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