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Composition by Monica Ong (“The Way of Karma” Collage with archival Auntie Betty and map of the Milky Way); “The Starry Grandeur of the Milky Way” from The Circle of Knowledge: A Classified, Simplified, Visualized Book of Answers. Editor in chief: Henry W. Ruoff, M.A., Lit.D., D.C.L., The Standard Publication Company, Boston, 1916, page 22 (Milky Way)
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