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Object 101

A History of the World in 100 Objects

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The Boat and the Museum

The boat is taking you to safer shores. It's a passage out of violence. But it also high lights how precarious this passage is and how vulnerable those who are forced to risk this passage. And the boats are so small, you know, they hardly survive. I was glad that he ultimately plumped for the cobars flotilla, because that would be my choice. An object that can translate for us all an experience beyond words - both a unique event and a continuing constant part of human history.

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