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19. Indian stepwells, also known regionally as 'vav', 'baori', 'baoli', and 'bawadi', are structures that, in the first place, helped harvest water but were also used as subterranean temples and pleasure retreats [Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Victoria Lautman]
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21. The ancient wooden synagogues in Poland Here is the Zabłudów synagogue as captured in 1895 by art collector and patron Mathias Bersohn for his ethnographic work on wooden synagogues in Poland ('Some Remarks on Ancient Wooden Synagogues in Poland', 1900)
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