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Is this a Crusader coin or an imitation Spanish Cob? [closed]
Someone gave me this coin, any idea what it is?
Is this a Crusader coin or an imitation Spanish Cob?
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Does the mn (Y5) hieroglyph represent a Senet or Mehen board?
I am currently learning to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and have come across a contradiction that I am struggling to resolve.
According to Ilona Regulski from the British Museum, as per this video, the ...
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Did „superannuated“ Athenian men retain full rights?
My understanding has always been that old Athenian men retained their right to participate in the popular assembly and jurys. Aristoteles, when trying to define the citizens in Politics Book 3, is ...
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What % of the Roman military budget was paid by the silk tax?
Somewhere in my research, I have a quote that compares the revenue collected from the tax on imported silk to the outlay for Imperial legions (circa 98 CE). (I have not included the quote because my ...
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What's the best way to transcribe 19th century, English, Urdu, Arabic, etc.?
For my PhD project, I'm processing a large amount of handwritten text from the mid to late 19th century from one person. I'm struggling with his handwriting in English.
Although I'm still learning ...
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How come an FBI agent like Robert Hanssen had access to spy lists?
Just watched the movie Breach on the flushing-out of the FBI spy, Robert Hanssen.
I just don't get two things:
How did Hanssen have access to lists of spies and other top-secret information like ...
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Why did V. D. Sarvarkar support the British war effort in World War II?
The Indian politician and activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) had, pre-WW2, advocated obtaining Indian independence from the UK, including through violent means. This can be seen in his ...
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Was Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" accurate in how it described the feelings of black people on the Reuben "Hurricane" Carter" case?
"Hurricane" is, of course, a song Bob Dylan wrote about the case of Reuben "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer who was falsely convicted of a triple murder. I have had the lyrics to the ...
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Are there any known English peers or aristocrats in poverty with the increasing number of members of the aristocracy? [closed]
With the increasing number of members of the English aristocracy is it likely that some of these peers live in poverty today - are there any such examples?
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What force, what unit and what rank is this individual?
I am trying to match this pic to a relative, but can anyone tell me what force, what unit and what rank he is?
It is thought that this is a grand uncle of mine, killed in Quetta (then India) in 1919....
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Why did Germany allow and help introduce the Deutsche Mark to Montenegro?
On the Dutch Wikipedia article on the Deutsche Mark, it says (without citation):
Als reactie op hyperinflatie en prijsstijgingen in Servië voerde Montenegro op 2 november 1999, in samenwerking met de ...
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Favorinus the famed orator is proclaimed one of the most famous congenital eunuchs to have lived. Was he really a congenital or is it just fiction?
I have a novel coming out about a 6th-century B.C. Ethiopian eunuch, and while researching eunuchs, I ran across a man named Favorinus, a 2nd-century orator famed in Athens and Rome. Wikipedia calls ...
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Did officers of the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia carry revolvers? Did Četniks' officers carry them by the end of the WWII?
At the beginning of "To noc sem jo videl" by Drago Jančar it is stated that officers of Četniks formations detained at Palmanova were allowed to carry personal arms for some time, the exact ...
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What might explain an army's sudden disappearance? [closed]
We've all recently witnessed how the Assad regime collapsed in just about 12 days after 14 years of war, despite having at least 200,000 soldiers and being fully equipped with all types of weapons. ...
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Did any stateless societies have writing? [closed]
Ignoring very recent stateless societies (such as the one that existed for a time during the Spanish Civil War), were there any stateless societies that had writing?
In The Art of Not Being Governed, ...
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