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Architecture and Stained Glass Windows

  • Rockefeller Chapel – University of Chicago stained glass closeup

  • US National Christmas Tree Washington, D.C.

  • Stained glass windows in Berlin, painter Walter Womacka

  • One of the Kremlin stars atop Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin

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