Why Are Bees Important?

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Cannibalism: Cultures, Cures, Cuisine, and Calories

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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.

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