Like sunshine stealing back the colours from a poster in a window, history often turns our memories into black and white.

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In this, Last Call does what great history should: acts as a window to the past that opens to a greater understanding of our present.

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The 311 individual panels from the window reveal a Christian history of the world, as told in the Bible, from Creation to the Last Judgement.

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However it gets there, that piece of jewelry adorning a world-class model on a fashion runway, being shown at a world-renowned fashion house, or appearing behind the window at your local jeweler, has a history and a story that will most likely never be known.

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The 2008 FA Cup winners have the worst start in Premier League history, having sold several of their first-team players during the summer transfer window.

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Orlando Figes, professor of history at London's Birkbeck College, says Mr Putin's home city of St Petersburg may be a window on Europe, but it can also been seen as a fortress against foreign opponents.

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In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.

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