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After his death, one of these places housed the body of the African-born Viennese Freemason Angelo Soliman. Ferrante Imperato created a woodcut of one of these places, another of which was set up at Roman College by Athanasius Kircher. Narwhal tusks were popular in these places, such as (-5[1])one kept by Danish polymath Ole Worm. A film titled for one of these places (10[1]-5[1])is linked to Hitler’s rise in the title of a book by Siegfried Kracauer, (10[1])used painted sets (10[1])with pointy forms, and ends with the twist that Franzis is in an asylum. These places name “wonder-rooms” of natural (10[1])oddities that predated museums, which were called these places “of curiosities.” (10[1])For 10 points, a 1920 (10[1])German Expressionist horror film is titled for what sort (10[1])of place “of Dr. Caligari”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: cabinets [accept cabinet of curiosities or cabinet of curiosity; accept curiosity cabinet; accept The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari; accept Wunderkammer or Kunstkammer; prompt on wonder-rooms or museums until read]
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Hannah NieuwveldPenn AColumbia B47-5
Maximilian NieburJohns Hopkins ACornell B6210
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Avery BarnettHaverford AGeorge Washington A7610
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegePenn B7910
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Florida2025-02-013100%0%90.00
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UK2025-02-0110100%20%99.50
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