Baubletop

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  • Tower of Babel → Genesis 11
  • bauble: a stick with a mass of lead, used for weighing
  • bauble: a toy; a jester's 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
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