| Goslings Bank Goslings Bank was a historical English bank, located since at least 1743 at No. 19 Fleet Street, London, and identified to customers by a hanging signboard depicting three squirrels. After becoming Goslings and Sharpe it was a constituent bank in the Barclays&Co merger of 1896 . The name of this well-known banking family is perpetuated in parentheses on all Barclays cheques relating to accounts held at the Fleet Street branch. Goslings_Bank
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| Henutmehyt Henutmehyt was the name of a Theban priestess, of Ancient Egypt who lived during the 19th Dynasty, around 1250 BC. Her gilded inner coffin can be seen today at the British Museum in London, England. The excessive use of gold, and the high quality and detail of her coffin indicates that Henutmehyt was a wealthy woman. On the front of the coffin we can recognize the figures of Isis and Nephthys, the protectors of the deceased. Henutmehyt
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| Scrip of Edo period Japan Edo period, feudal domains of Japan issued scrip called ''currency supplemented the coinage of the Tokugawa shogunate. Most scrip carried a face value in silver coinage, but gold and copper scrip also circulated. In addition, some scrip was marked for exchange in kind for a commodity such as rice. Scrip_of_Edo_period_Japan
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| Korean Buddhist sculpture Korean Buddhist sculpture is one of the major areas of Korean art. Some of the finest and most technically accomplished Buddhist sculpture in East Asia were produced in Korea. Korean_Buddhist_sculpture
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| Knife money Knife money is the name of large, cast, bronze, knife-shaped coins produced by various governments and kingdoms in what is now known as China, approximately 2500 years ago. They had holes on the end to be easily strapped onto belts or rings. Knife_money
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| Osman Waqialla Osman Waqialla (1925-4 January 2007), , Sudanese artist, calligrapher. Osman_Waqialla
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| Idia For the moth genus, see Idia (moth).Queen Idia was the mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550. She played a very significant role in the rise and reign of her son. She was a strong warrior who fought relentlessly before and during her son's reign as the Oba (king) of the Edo people. Idia
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| Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 January 8 Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007_January_8
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| Cyrus cylinder/Cyrus cylinder Talk:Cyrus_cylinder/Cyrus_cylinder
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| Townley Vase Townley Vase is a large Roman marble vase of the second century AD, discovered in 1773 by the Scottish antiquarian and dealer in antiquities Gavin Hamilton in excavating a Roman villa at Monte Cagnolo, between Genzano and Civitalavinia, near the ancient Lanuvium, in Lazio, southeast of Rome. Townley_Vase
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| King's Library The King’s Library was the original name applied both to the British Royal Collection of over 60,000 books and to the room in the British Museum that housed them. The books were transferred to the new British Library in 1998, and the room has now been restored to its original glory as one of London's finest and most beautiful neo-Classical interiors. King's_Library
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| Dionysus Sardanapalus The Dionysus Sardanapalus is a common Hellenistic-Roman Neo Attic sculpture-type of the god Dionysus, misnamed after the king Sardanapalus. The god is heavily draped, with an ivy wreath and a long, archaic-style beard and probably a thyrsos in a raised right hand. Dionysus_Sardanapalus
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| Ham/British Museum (statistics) User:Ham/British_Museum_(statistics)
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| King's Library Talk:King's_Library
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| 195.110.156.38 User_talk:195.110.156.38
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| Islam in England Islam is the second largest religion in England with most Muslims being immigrants from South Asia (in particular Pakistan, Bangladesh and India), or are descendants of immigrants from that region. Some come from Africa including countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Sierra Leone, while many others are from the Middle East, Somalia, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Islam_in_England
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| British Museum Department of Asia The Department of Asia in the British Museum is one of the largest collections of historical artifacts from Asia, consisting of over 70,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present. (The collection formerly included objects from the Islamic world, but these have recently been merged with the Department of the Ancient Near East to form the Department of the Middle East.) British_Museum_Department_of_Asia
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| Undley bracteate Undley bracteate, a 5th century bracteate found in Undley Common, near Lakenheath, Suffolk (). It bears the earliest known inscription that can be argued to be in Anglo-Frisian Futhorc (as opposed to Common Germanic Elder Futhark). A picture of the bracteate can be seen here.The image on the bracteate is an adaptation of an Urbs Roma coin type issued by Constantine the Great, conflating the helmeted head of the emperor and the image of Romulus and Remus suckled by the wolf on one face. Undley_bracteate
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| Replaceability of fair-use images/Archive 12/19/2006-1/10/2007 Wikipedia_talk:Replaceability_of_fair-use_images/Archive_12/19/2006-1/10/2007
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