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Oct 2025
33m 40s

Celestial Battle

Ballen Studios
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For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a ... Show More
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