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dethb0y t1_j6kxx96 wrote

Reply to comment by Based_nobody in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA

Yeah somewhat, he wrote to other writers a lot and he often discussed, well, writing and his thoughts on various aspects of, well everything.

That said when i say the man has a lot of letters, there's something like 3500 of them set to be printed when they finish up volumes 22 and 23...

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dethb0y t1_izq5yv3 wrote

Reply to A wall relief, comprising five figures carved on a bench in a communal building dating to the 9th millennium BC, was found in Sayburç, south-eastern Turkey, in 2021. It constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’ by -introuble2

>Its raised, open left hand has six fingers, while the right holds a snake, or a rattle, with its head facing the ground.

I wonder if they considered polydactyly significant, if this was a specific individual who was the "model", or if it was just a way they chose to depict this guy's hand for some reason? It's the little details that are always so fascinating to me.

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dethb0y t1_it0uxy3 wrote

Reply to comment by GedichteundKunst in One of the longest ancient Roman inscriptions ever discovered in Britain is to go on display for the first time. by Demderdemden

From the article:

>"The larger stone really is a superstar inscription, one of the longest and largest ever to be found in ancient Britain and unlikely to ever be surpassed as a record of the world of Roman Yorkshire," he said.

If that's the best they've got then...uh....

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dethb0y t1_ir99xfe wrote

Reply to TIL about Operation Bernhard. During WWII, Germany attempted to bring about the collapse of the British economy by forging ≈£130 million in British bank notes. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, and are very difficult to differentiate from legitimate notes. by rkadeYT

It's interesting that they thought 130 million could do it. You'd need to inject much more than that even into britain's wartime economy.

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