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  2. Courtauld bag - Wikipedia

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    The bag's top panel features a court scene with a rhyming Arabic inscription. The court scene features a man and woman seated on a dais, probably representing a Mongol royal couple. To the right of the woman is a servant carrying a mirror and a napkin, with a handbag over his shoulder; this may represent the Courtauld bag itself. [1]: 85, 89

  3. Postage stamps and postal history of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    A further issue was required in new designs in 1909 which, in addition to Amharic, included the Latin inscription "POSTES ETHIOPIENNES" and the value in guerches. [4] The older issues lost postal validity and the use of French Somali Coast stamps on mail sent abroad was discontinued as a result of the admission to the U.P.U., and that meant ...

  4. Hadad-yith'i - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge of Hadad-yith'i's rule comes largely from the statue and its inscription found at the Tell Fekheriye. [1] Known as the Hadad-yith'i bilingual inscription , as it is written in both Old Aramaic and Akkadian , its discovery, decipherment and study contributes significantly to cultural and linguistic understandings of the region.

  5. Cash coins in feng shui - Wikipedia

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    The usage of cash coins in the Chinese religious practice of feng shui is commonplace influencing many superstitions involving them. Believers in feng shui believe in a primal life force called qi (or chi) and apply their beliefs to the design of residential houses, as well as to commercial and public buildings, sometimes incorporating cash coins into the flow of this supposed qi.

  6. Priene calendar inscription - Wikipedia

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    Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.

  7. Xerxes I inscription at Van - Wikipedia

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    The Xerxes I inscription at Van, also known as the XV Achaemenid royal inscription, [1] is a trilingual cuneiform inscription of the Achaemenid King Xerxes I (r. 486–465 BC). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located on the southern slope of a mountain adjacent to the Van Fortress , near Lake Van in present-day Turkey . [ 3 ]

  8. Inscriptiones Graecae - Wikipedia

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    The Inscriptiones Graecae (IG), Latin for Greek inscriptions, is an academic project originally begun by the Prussian Academy of Science, and today continued by its successor organisation, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

  9. Miche (bag) - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, Romero thought of an idea to change the outside of a handbag, without physically changing the bag itself. She created a prototype by taking apart her own bag and revamping it using super glue and scrap fabric. [2] The name of the company came from Michelle's nickname, Miche (pronounced MEE-chee), which her mother-in-law calls her. [3]