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Old Coptic
Old Coptic is the earliest stage of Coptic writing, a form of late Egyptian written in the Coptic script, a variant of the Greek alphabet. It "is an analytical category … utilised by scholars to re
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Sarasvati river
The Sarasvati River (IAST: Sárasvatī-nadī́ ) is a deified mythological river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religio
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Demotic Egyptian
Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta. The term was first used by the Greek hist
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Hanuman Dhoka
Hanuman Dhoka (Nepali: हनुमान ढोका ) is a complex of structures with the Royal Palace of the Malla kings and also of the Shah dynasty in the Durbar Square of central Kathmandu, Nepal.The Hanuman Dh
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Meroitic alphabet
The Meroitic script consists of two alphasyllabic scripts developed to write the Meroitic language at the beginning of the Meroitic Period (3rd century BC) of the Kingdom of Kush. The two scripts a
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Harvard–Yale game
The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football match between the Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Bulldogs football team of Yal
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Foster mounting
The Foster mounting was a device fitted to some fighter aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It was designed to enable a machine gun (in practice, a Lewis Gun) to fire ove
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Bagmati Pradesh
Bagmati Province (Nepali: बागमती प्रदेश , Bāgmatī pradēśa) is one of the seven provinces of Nepal established by the constitution of Nepal. Bagmati is Nepal's second-most populous province and fift
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Mithila region
Mithila (IAST: Mithilā ), also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges
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Mesabi Range
47°30′N 93°4′W / 47.500°N 93.067°W / 47.500; -93.067 Lake Superior Iron RangesThe Mesabi Range (upper center) is west of Lake Superior, north of Duluth, Minnesota, and far north of Minneapolis-St.
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