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To: annalex

I believe it's called an "orb" as in Sceptre and Orb, and yeah, it's a sort of ornament of sovereigns. Somewhere I have a coronation commemorative prayer book with a picture of the crowned queen holding that stuff.


7,588 posted on 01/26/2007 5:25:29 PM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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To: Mad Dawg
"orb"

Thank you. I wonder what did they do when the globularity of the Earth was not common knowledge.

7,609 posted on 01/26/2007 9:12:02 PM PST by annalex
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