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EndofGods t1_ix3bxgb wrote
Dude was mad as a hatter, a brilliant hatter.
MNGirlinKY t1_ix3akl4 wrote
Reply to comment by divDevGuy in German Cold War Nuclear Fallout Bunker For Sale On eBay For EUR 1.6 Million by ananovanews
My aunts home was built underground way up north and it was very efficient
I don’t know if they ever finished it ( their plan) I was 7 when I saw it last
It’s not for me as am adult but thought it was cool as a kid
Uschnej t1_ix38xkz wrote
Reply to comment by Hyphalspace in How to explain similar symbols/motifs which are found around the world? by aykavalsokec
That's genrally considered pseudoscience.
LazyLich t1_ix383ic wrote
Reply to comment by Aozora404 in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
Yeah but the specific GROUPING of particles wasn't.
Like, yeah human tribes have existed for thousands of years, but the group "America" has only been around for a couple hundred.
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jinxed_07 t1_ix31xrl wrote
Reply to comment by wygrif in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
To be fair, there's only a handful of Magic cards worth that much.
ContentsMayVary t1_ix2zew2 wrote
According to the Treasure Act 1996 this ring would be classified as treasure, and thus the finder would be compelled to first offer it for sale to a museum ("that belongs in a museum"). Only if no museum wants to buy it can it go on general sale.
This ring would fall under the definition:
>Any individual (non-coin) find that is at least 300 years old and contains at least 10% gold or silver.
None of this is mentioned in the article, which makes me think some information is missing... It's possible that no musem wanted to buy it at £40K.
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Reply to comment by pernologos84 in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
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FeriQueen t1_ix2wvon wrote
Jjex22 t1_ix2vcjd wrote
Reply to comment by wygrif in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
It’s still a fair old chunk of change, and doesn’t have a cool story attached to it. It’s worth a lot more than the gold it’s made of, but there’s also a lot of 600 year old things in the UK.
Special but not so special basically.
anfuman t1_ix2tkuy wrote
How do we know it’s wedding ring?
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Reply to comment by jjjam in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
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aykavalsokec OP t1_ix2sy1m wrote
Reply to comment by ItsABiscuit in How to explain similar symbols/motifs which are found around the world? by aykavalsokec
Okay, this falls into the category of evolutionism.
GiveMeChoko t1_ix2ssj7 wrote
Reply to comment by Aozora404 in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
You sure it's 13.7 billion? Me personally I think we're a couple of years older. Like a decade or so
GiveMeChoko t1_ix2srx4 wrote
Reply to comment by Aozora404 in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
You sure it's 13.7 billion? Me personally I think we're a couple of years older. Like a decade or so
ItsABiscuit t1_ix2sqm0 wrote
Reply to comment by aykavalsokec in How to explain similar symbols/motifs which are found around the world? by aykavalsokec
Sorry, I had a typo, I meant to say ART imitating life. People are fascinated with their junk around the world, so I don't think it's a stretch to say that separate cultures separately developed similar themes in their artwork.
Aozora404 t1_ix2ryfn wrote
Reply to comment by trafalmadorianistic in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
Is a pile of sand younger than the grains that make them?
Aozora404 t1_ix2rvy6 wrote
Reply to comment by GiveMeChoko in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
That is what I’m saying, yes
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Bimimans t1_ix2rj4e wrote
Reply to comment by Miskatonic_River in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum
>the One Ring was famously destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom at the end of the Third Age.
Thats what they want you to think. Wake up sheeple.
FoolishConsistency17 t1_ix3dv63 wrote
Reply to Yuri Knorozov: The Maverick Scholar Who Cracked The Maya Code by tyrannosauru
He was brilliant and made a huge breakthrough, but the narrative that he did this "single handedly" really minimizes the work of the generation of epigraphers who took his insights and actually figured out how to read Maya.