Baubletop
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Revision as of 05:03, 20 December 2009 by Nikopolyos (talk | contribs) (added refs to medals and cerimonal objects)
- Tower of Babel → Genesis 11
- bauble: a stick with a mass of lead, used for weighing
- bauble: a toy from the French 'baubel' or a jester's mock sceptre → "Take away that fool's bauble" – alleged words with which Oliver Cromwell dismissed the Rump Parliament, 20 April 1653, referring to the speaker's ceremonial mace
- bauble: a military medal; as Napoleon famously said while handing out medals "Men are lead by trinkets and baubles,"
- bauble: a showy cerimonal object with no real value.
- bubble-top