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  • So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is
  • The description of this granite palimpsest is best given in Mr. Petrie's own words, as written in his weekly report at the time of the discovery:
  • The graphical front-end for DeviceKit is called palimpsest and provides several nice management capabilities.
  • An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist.
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