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    A brazen head, brass, or bronze head was a legendary automaton in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such...
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    The Brazen Head is a pub in Merchant's Quay, Dublin, built as a coaching inn in 1754, on the site of a merchant's dwelling dating back to at least 1613...
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    The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. According...
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    England during the mid-1270s. In addition to Roger Bacon, the tale of the brazen head was connected with several other prominent figures of the later Middle...
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    Mímir (redirect from Head of Mimir)
    Oregon Nine Herbs Charm, an Anglo-Saxon charm featuring Woden and herbs. Brazen head Lincoln (1991: 54–55). Simek (2007:216). Larrington (1999:7). Larrington...
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    decentered universe of Finnegans wake, p. 2. "Joyce – Quotations". The Brazen Head. The Modern Word. Retrieved 3 December 2007. Keymer, Thomas. Laurence...
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  • born in Boston. He inherited and then owned a general store called "The Brazen Head." The store was located in Cornhill, an area in the center of Boston...
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    and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the...
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  • Lisson Green is described as a hamlet in the Domesday book in 1086, the edges of the settlement defined by the two current Edgware Road stations facing...
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    have fabricated a brazen head, having developed a legend of having been a wizard. These legends were similar to the Norse myth of the Head of Mímir. According...
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