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Tapestry_of_bayeux10.jpg ‎(277 × 288 pixels, file size: 85 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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  • English: Tapestry of Bayeux (Normandy) with Halley's comet. Text reads ISTI MIRANT STELLA: "These (people) are looking in wonder at the star."
  • Deutsch: Komet Halley auf dem Wandteppich von Bayeux
  • Français : Tapisserie de Bayeux (Normandie) avec la comète de Halley
  • Magyar: A Halley-üstökös a Bayeaux-i (Normandia) faliszőnyegen.
Date possibly completed 1077
Source http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news90.html; this is a crop of the original tapestry, which has been published in: Bruce, John Collingwood (1856) " The Succession" in The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, London: John Russell Smith, pp. Plate VII Retrieved on 19 January 2010.
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