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1766 – As part of wider food riots, citizens in Nottingham, England, looted large quantities of cheese; one man was killed during attempts to restore order. 1879 – Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire , but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify the treaty.
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The first page of the index of Novus Atlas Sinensis by Martino Martini, an altas of China published in 1655 . An index (pl.: usually indexes, more rarely indices) is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents.
Manuscript, Codex Manesse.Most manuscripts were ruled with horizontal lines that served as the baselines on which the text was entered. 10th-century minuscule manuscript of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War First page of Satie's Sports et divertissements (published as a facsimile in 1923)
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