I will not be shipping anything for a good while, but if anyone contacts me direct - I will make a list for action down the line Jitals, 800 were...
A while back now, but many thanks Doug. Most kind. Key parts of both books are available free on the web Thus the type catalogue of Jitals you...
Ha! Just what I almost wrote myself :)
Wow. Interesting. The theoretical figure 4.17g comes this way. Although there is a fair bit of variation in Late Sasanid drachms, they have a...
Thanks for the thoughts @Alegandron. Sure - Early hominids had big brains for thinking with, so would be intelligent in their own way. Seems...
You seem to be asking about a point you imagine I made, rather than the one I did make, which was primarily about ladder counting You are free...
I judge measurement in grains is unlikely to pre-date fairly widespread gold use, which is perhaps c. 5th millennium BC? I suspect the Babylonian...
I was once offered about 10 of these and only pulled out the best five. When I weighed them afterwards they were all very close indeed to 4.17g...
I would like to say a few positive things about Canadian academia - and note - in parts this is very well sourced………. As a youngster I became...
What we have very good sources for is the fact that propagandist Lazarsfeld studied the 1938 "War of the Worlds" alien attack panic, and concluded...
Myself, am proudly not a member or associate of any faculty, but I have friends and acquaintances who are, and who well understand the points I...
Nope, just plain accurate I would fear. Though not particular to the US. Returning to the sort of ideas about the fall of Rome from previous...
As I said to Orfew when I first joined this group - I think something has gone very very wrong with modern academic life in general. I see it too...
Did I miss this or is it an edit? Anyhow, my claim was about the anthropological propaganda against French and British colonialism already put...
Thanks - but this seems merely: "Never mind the quality - feel the width" What hard fact do you wish to dredge out of this word soup which you...
Can you cite for this? My recollection is that (eg) von Danikan got ideas from Leithbridge and when I studied Leithbridge I concluded he was a...
Yeah - David Graeber most recently seen doing this. Even on the BBC. Anyone else notice that alongside telling us all how we should reform the...
Sorry, let me clarify By 440 AD, according to Harl, a solidus was worth 42,000,000 denarii. But it equated to 7,000 nummi 42,000,000/7,000 =...
My copy of Harl arrived. Full marks to Ergodebooks for an impecable service. I turn rapidly to page 168 - and discover that the “coinage trash”...
Actually, it seem to me more like the relationship between Byzantium and Venice. The Guptas were a more hierarchical and hieratic inland...
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